Bruse Loyd

Bruse is an experienced and versatile attorney who has successfully handled many types of legal matters for firm clients over two decades. He represents individuals, businesses, and organizations and has litigated, arbitrated, and mediated hundreds of cases as lead counsel in over twenty states. His practice areas include, but are not limited to, business litigation and law, employment litigation and law, oil and gas litigation, fiduciary litigation and whistle-blower litigation. He is primarily a litigator but assists firm clients with many transactional and administrative matters. Firm clients find Bruse to be responsive, diligent, creative and trustworthy.

Bruse's work involves representing firm clients before state and federal courts at every level. He has represented firm clients before the Department of Justice, the Securities and Exchange Commission, the Department of Labor, the Consumer Finance Protection Bureau, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, the National Collegiate Athletic Association, the Texas Department of Insurance, the Public Utility Commission of Texas, the Texas Workforce Commission and numerous state attorneys general.

In the sports arena, Bruse has been called upon to represent athletes and athletic staff before school tribunals and the NCAA. He has defended and counseled these firm clients in matters involving allegations of school policy violations, recruiting rules violations, impermissible benefits, transfer eligibility issues, testing for banned substances and sexual assault. Bruse also counseled and represented former players in the NFL class action concussion litigation and has represented NFL cheerleaders in labor arbitration.

In media and entertainment, Bruse has represented several television broadcasting companies and their associated television stations, various media organizations, media executives, producers, writers and entertainers. He has made his own contribution to media, providing on-air legal commentary for television, radio, and podcasts on dozens of occasions.

Bruse has several years of extensive and varied experience working with national and regional media on behalf of firm clients whose cases have attracted public attention. He has presented his clients' cases to reporters and producers from the Big Four television networks, ESPN, ABC's Nightline, CBS's 60 Minutes, USA Today, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post and many other media organizations, to ensure that his clients' side of the story is told.

Bruse is a member of the American Bar Association, the Texas Bar Association (Litigation Section), and the Houston Bar Association (Litigation Section). He is a Lifetime Member of the Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo (Vice Chairman 2005–2007) and a Lifetime Member of the Rice University "R" Association as a football letterman.