Brienne Letourneau

Brienne M. Letourneau is a partner in White & Case LLP’s Global Commercial Litigation Practice in Chicago, where she strategically partners with businesses and institutions to help them achieve favorable outcomes in their most complex and high-stakes matters. She has experience representing clients in a variety of disputes, including fiduciary litigation (asset-management claims, director and officer liability and other corporate governance issues), class actions, contract disputes, business torts and professional liability. Ms. Letourneau has represented a wide array of public and private companies, including leading wealth-management and financial-services companies and multinational consumer-facing businesses, as well as prominent higher-education institutions, directors, officers, trustees, and other individual and corporate fiduciaries. She has broad experience representing clients as plaintiffs and defendants before state and federal courts and arbitral tribunals throughout the country, from pre-litigation dispute resolution and early dispositive motion practice to trial and appeal. She also has advised and defended clients in connection with government subpoenas and investigative demands. In 2022, The Chicago Daily Law Bulletin and Chicago Lawyer named Ms. Letourneau among the “40 Illinois Attorneys Under Forty to Watch.” In 2021, she was recognized by Crain’s Chicago Business as a “Rising Star in Law,” and was named to The American Lawyer’s list of 2021 Midwest Trailblazers. Ms. Letourneau maintains a pro bono practice representing indigent clients and nonprofit organizations in civil actions, and advising and counseling nonprofit organizations on legal issues that impact their institutional missions. She is a member of the Chicago Bar Association and the National Association of College and University Attorneys (NACUA). Ms. Letourneau received her B.A. from the University of North Carolina and her J.D. from Harvard Law School.