Bio

For more than a dozen years, Bradley Butwin has served as Chair of O’Melveny & Myers LLP, an internationally acclaimed law firm of more than 800 attorneys in 18 offices worldwide. The firm’s longest-serving chair since the founding family of O’Melveny & Myers, Brad began his tenure in early 2012 after heading the firm’s Litigation Department. His election to a fourth term in early 2024 extended his tenure until 2029. Under Brad’s leadership, O’Melveny has ranked for 13 consecutive years in the top tier of The American Lawyer’s “A-List,” which recognizes the nation’s most “well-rounded” firms in the areas of revenue per lawyer, pro bono commitment, diversity representation, and associate satisfaction. O’Melveny has also been a perennial honoree in The American Lawyer’s “Litigation Department of the Year” competition, a #1 finisher in both 2023 and 2024 in AmLaw’s Midlevel Associates Survey, and a three-time achiever of a “trifecta” in Vault’s annual survey of law firm associates, including in its most recent poll. The firm earned #1 rankings across all three major categories: “Best Law Firm to Work For,” “Best Overall Diversity,” and “Best Summer Associate Program.” Brad has presided over a transformative chapter for O’Melveny, steering the firm through a period of strategic growth that spans the opening of the firm’s top-ranked Seoul office in 2012 to, more recently, the launch of three new Texas offices in Austin, Dallas, and Houston. He has also guided O’Melveny to nearly a decade of revenue growth, including crossing the billion-dollar revenue mark in 2022. In recognition of these and other achievements, the New York Law Journal recognized him with the 2023 “Distinguished Leader Award.” Brad has also maintained a widely acclaimed practice. Chambers USA has ranked him among the top securities litigators in the nation and has rated him one of the leading commercial litigators in New York, calling Brad a “standout lawyer” who “is always reachable and responsive, [and] always wants to help.” Beyond his legal industry leadership, Brad devotes himself to numerous philanthropic and civic causes. Earlier in his career, he was presented with the New York City Bar Association’s Thurgood Marshall Award for his role in freeing a wrongly convicted man from Georgia’s death row. More recently, he met the challenges of 2020-2022 by cofounding and serving on the Board of Advisors of the Law Firm Antiracism Alliance, which has united more than 300 firms in the fight against structural racism in the law. He is also a dedicated member of the Leadership Council on Legal Diversity; the New York State Bar Association’s Task Force on Advancing Diversity; and the New York Attorney General’s Pro Bono Task Force for Reproductive Health, formed in response to the US Supreme Court’s decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization. Additionally, Brad is a board member of Only Make Believe, a nonprofit that creates and performs interactive theater for children in hospitals and care facilities.