Bruce Braley
No one has fought harder to protect the right to trial by jury in the United States than Bruce Braley.
Leventhal Puga Braley P.C. Trial Lawyer
Education
About
Bruce Braley was a highly-respected trial lawyer in Iowa for 23 years before serving eight years in Congress representing Iowa’s 1st Congressional District. In 2015, Bruce started a new life chapter here in Colorado and joined Leventhal Puga Braley P.C. where he is a partner. Bruce made his mark in a short time, obtaining one of the largest medical malpractice verdicts in Colorado history. Bruce and his wife Carolyn love spoiling their one-year-old grandson, spending time with their children, cheering the Rockies, and getting up in the mountains every chance they get.
Community Involvement
- Big Brothers/Big Sisters (President & Big Brother)
- Dollars for Scholars (Chapter President)
- Visiting Nurse's Association Board of Directors
- Black Hawk Area Swim Team (President)
- Waterloo Historic Preservation Commission
- Iowa Legal Aid Board of Directors
- Offered free legal services through the Volunteer Lawyers Project to low-income Iowans
Practice Areas
- Personal Injury & Wrongful Death
- Medical Malpractice
- Trucking
- Defective motor vehicles
- Defective products
Education
University of Iowa College of Law, J.D., 1983
Iowa state University, B.A., 1980
Memberships & Affiliations
- President of the Iowa Trial Lawyers Association
- President of the Iowa Chapter of the American Board of Trial Advocates
- Board of Governors of the American Association of Justice (AAJ)/Association of Trial Lawyers of America (ATLA)
- Chair-Elect of the Professional Negligence Section of ATLA
- Birth Trauma Litigation Group
- Medical Negligence Information Exchange Group
- Trucking Litigation Group
- Attorneys Information Exchange Group
- President of the Black Hawk County Bar Association
- Iowa State Bar Association Committee on Specialization
- Appointed to Rules of Professional Conduct Drafting Committee and the Commission on Planning for the 21st Century by the Iowa Supreme Court
- Appointed to Governor’s Task Force to Protect Iowans’ Consumer Privacy
- Appointed to the Federal Practice Committee for the Northern District of Iowa
Awards
- Named a Fellow in the American College of Trial Lawyers, the National College of Advocacy and the Iowa Academy of Trial Lawyers
- Awards from the state and local trial lawyer associations in Iowa, New York, Philadelphia, Maryland, and Washington, DC.
- Awarded an Honorary Doctorate of Laws at his Commencement Address at Clarke College in Dubuque, Iowa
- Honored by the Truck Safety Coalition
- Honored by the New Lawyers Division of the American Association for Justice
- Commencement Address at his alma mater, the University of Iowa College of Law
- Cedar Valley Mayor’s Volunteer Performance Award
- Couple of the Year by Big Brothers/Big Sisters of Northeast Iowa