Brian serves as Vice President and General Counsel to Beta Technologies, the electric aerospace company. In 2001, Brian co-founded the law firm Dunkiel Saunders, (renamed as SRHLaw in January 2023 after Brian's departure). For nearly three decades, he has supported clients on projects, products, services, and missions that are truly pioneering and often unusually challenging—demanding an innovative and creative approach to meeting legal representation needs. Early in his legal career, Brian helped to conceive and litigate several groundbreaking federal lawsuits involving climate change, including Friends of the Earth et al. v. Watson, No. 02-4106(JSW) (N.D. Ca.) and No. 03-72620 (9th Cir. 2003), the first case to hold that climate change injuries provide Art. III standing, and he also represented environmental NGOs in Massachusetts. v. EPA, No. 03-1361 549 U.S. 497 (2007), requiring the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to regulate carbon dioxide as a pollutant under the Clean Air Act.
Brian serves as Vice President and General Counsel to Beta Technologies, the electric aerospace company. In 2001, Brian co-founded the law firm Dunkiel Saunders, (renamed as SRHLaw in January 2023 after Brian's departure). For nearly three decades, he has supported clients on projects, products, services, and missions that are truly pioneering and often unusually challenging—demanding an innovative and creative approach to meeting legal representation needs. Early in his legal career, Brian helped to conceive and litigate several groundbreaking federal lawsuits involving climate change, including Friends of the Earth et al. v. Watson, No. 02-4106(JSW) (N.D. Ca.) and No. 03-72620 (9th Cir. 2003), the first case to hold that climate change injuries provide Art. III standing, and he also represented environmental NGOs in Massachusetts. v. EPA, No. 03-1361 549 U.S. 497 (2007), requiring the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to regulate carbon dioxide as a pollutant under the Clean Air Act.