A native North Carolinian, Mr. Brooks graduated summa cum laude from Wake Forest University with a Bachelor of Arts in Latin. At Wake Forest, he was awarded the M.D. Phillips Prize in Classical Languages and inducted into both Phi Beta Kappa and Eta Sigma Phi, the national Latin and Greek honor society. Mr. Brooks received his law degree in 2006 from Vanderbilt University Law School, where he served as an articles editor on the Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law.

Before joining Millberg Gordon Stewart, Mr. Brooks was a law clerk to the Honorable Bernice Bouie Donald, then a United States District Judge for the Western District of Tennessee. He also served as an adjunct legal methods instructor at the University of Memphis Cecil C. Humphreys School of Law during the 2010-11 academic year. Prior to clerking for Judge Donald, Mr. Brooks was a law clerk in Nashville, Tennessee, to the Honorable Walter C. Kurtz, first in his capacity as Judge of the Fifth Circuit Court for Davidson County and then in his position as a Senior Judge for the State of Tennessee. While in law school, he externed for the Honorable Thomas A. Wiseman, Jr., Senior United States District Judge for the Middle District of Tennessee, and interned for the Honorable Richard A. Elmore of the North Carolina Court of Appeals.

Mr. Brooks is a member of the Tennessee and North Carolina bars. Currently, he serves as an assistant editor of The Young Lawyer, a publication of the American Bar Association’s Young Lawyers Division.

¬ Civil Litigation Defense
¬ Transportation Litigation
¬ Serious Personal Injury Cases

Education
¬Vanderbilt University Law School, J.D., 2006
    ¬ Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law, Articles Editor
    ¬ Scholastic Excellence Award in Evidence
    ¬ Scholastic Excellence Award in Corporations & Business Entities
¬T.C. Williams School of Law, University of Richmond, 2003 – 2004
¬Wake Forest University, B.A., summa cum laude, 2003
    ¬ Departmental Honors in Latin
    ¬ M.D. Phillips Prize in Classical Languages
    ¬ Phi Beta Kappa
    ¬ Eta Sigma Phi

Experience
¬Millberg Gordon Stewart, Raleigh, NC, 2011 – present
¬Law Clerk to the Honorable Bernice Bouie Donald, then-U.S. District Judge for the Western District of Tennessee (now-Circuit Judge, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit), Memphis, TN, 2008 – 2011
¬Adjunct Legal Methods Instructor, Cecil C. Humphreys School of Law, University of Memphis, Memphis, TN, 2010 – 2011
¬Law Clerk to the Honorable Walter C. Kurtz, Senior Judge for the State of Tennessee, Nashville, TN, 2008
¬Law Clerk to the Honorable Walter C. Kurtz, then-Judge of the Fifth Circuit Court for Davidson County, Nashville, TN, 2006 – 2008

¬Admitted to the North Carolina and Tennessee Bars
¬Admitted to the US Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit
¬Admitted to the US Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
¬Admitted to the US District Court for the Eastern District of NC
¬Admitted to the US District Court for the Middle District of NC
¬Admitted to the US District Court for the Western District of NC
¬Admitted to the US District Court for the Western District of Tenn.
¬Member of the American Bar Association
¬Member of the Federal Bar Association
¬Member of the Defense Research Institute
¬Member of the North Carolina Bar Association
¬Member of the Wake County Bar Association
¬Member of the 10th Judicial District Bar Association