Brad was born in Magnolia, Arkansas, and was raised in the countryside near Waldo, Arkansas. He received his undergraduate education at the University of Arkansas in Fayetteville. His degree from Arkansas is in English Literature, and this choice reflects his love of reading and writing.

While in college he was a member of the United States Army's Reserve Officer Training Corps (ROTC). Upon graduation he received a Regular Army commission. During his three and a half years on active duty he served as a tank platoon leader, battalion adjutant, and assistant brigade adjutant in the Third Armored Division in the Federal Republic of Germany.

After leaving the Army he came to Virginia to attend law school. During this time he fell in love with Virginia and decided to stay here.

His first job as a lawyer was serving as a law clerk to Judge Glen M. Williams, a federal district judge in Big Stone Gap, Virginia. Thereafter, he entered private practice, but events soon led him to secure a second clerkship with Judge Orinda D. Evans, a federal district judge in Atlanta, Georgia.

The foundation of his ability as a legal researcher and writer comes from the two clerkships he served. During his respective clerkships it was his privilege to draft several opinions that the judges chose to publish. One such opinion that he drafted was Judge Evans' decision in Joiner v. General Elec. Co., 864 F. Supp. 1310 (N.D. Ga. 1994). Joiner is the middle case in the so-called "Daubert trilogy" that addresses the admissibility of expert testimony in federal court. In 1996 the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit reversed Judge Evans' ruling in a decision reported at 78 F.3d 524. The following year the United States Supreme Court reversed the Eleventh Circuit and reinstated Judge Evans' decision; the Supreme Court's opinion is reported at 522 U.S. 136.

He has been in private practice continuously since his clerkship with Judge Evans ended. In total, his private-practice experience has included collections work, business "divorces" and work-outs, bankruptcy work from the perspective of both debtors and creditors, estate planning/litigation, general civil litigation, "second chair" for the defendant in a first-degree murder case (resulting in acquittal), much personal injury/wrongful death litigation, and several successful appeals to the Supreme Court of Virginia.

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