Brenden P. Leydon

Biography

Brenden leads the firms Product Liability practice and handles complex personal injury and civil litigation of all sorts.  He has successfully resolved numerous cases against major auto, medical device and consumer product manufacturers and trucking companies, and has had numerous successful verdicts on behalf of injury victims.  Brenden graduated from Tufts University and Rutgers-Newark Law School.  He has been practicing trial and appellate litigation at Wocl & Leydon LLC since 1995.  Prior to law school, Brenden served in the United States Army National Guard, as a forward observer and infantry officer.

Brenden is on the Board of Governors of the Connecticut Trial Lawyers Association (CTLA) and chairs the CTLA Product Liability Committee.  He is also on the Board of Directors of the Attorneys Information Exchange Group (AIEG), a national organization focusing on product liability cases. Brenden has been Co-Chair of the Appellate Practice Committee for Stamford/Norwalk Regional Bar Association; he has also served as a Commissioner for the Connecticut Law Revision Commission.  In 1999-2000, he was Co-Chair of the Connecticut Bar Association YLS Appellate Practice Committee.

Brenden has successfully argued numerous appeals in the Connecticut Supreme Court, Connecticut Appellate Court, and United Stated Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit involving landmark issues of constitutional law, personal injury, medical malpractice, product liability, workers’ compensation, foreclosures, family law and commercial litigation.  He has also presented at numerous legal seminars in Connecticut and nationally on various issues of trial and appellate practice.  He has won numerous honors and awards in the legal profession including the Connecticut Law Tribune Impact Award in 2002, the Rutger’s Law School Constitutional Litigation Clinic Alumni Award in 2001, and has been recognized by Super Lawyers every year since 2009.  In 2015, the Connecticut Law Tribune inducted Brenden into the Personal Injury Hall of Fame for Product Liability.  In 2019, Brenden obtained a $15,000,000.00 verdict in the case of Amparo v. Ayala, which was believed to be the largest verdict in Connecticut history resulting from a collision of motor vehicles.  In 2020, the Connecticut Law Tribune selected Brenden as a finalist for Attorney of the Year.  

Brenden is also very active in the local community, having served on the Board of Trustees of the Stamford Ferguson Library, the Connecticut Law Revision Commission, and the Stamford Animal Care and Control Center Task Force.  In 2022 after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, Brenden and his family hosted a pregnant Ukrainian refugee at their house, who subsequently had the baby while residing at their house.  Brenden is married to his wife Angela and lives in Stamford with their son Brenden Jr., and two dogs, Davey and Thor.