Profile

Brendan Flynn represents individuals, businesses, and other entities in a broad range of civil litigation practice areas, including business disputes, employment and civil rights litigation, and litigation related to flooding and other environmental issues.

Recently, Mr. Flynn successfully litigated a challenge to proposed school board election regions in the Central Bucks School District. In the litigation, Mr. Flynn and his Curtin & Heefner colleague Theresa Golding prevented the initial, unconstitutional plan from being adopted and successfully convinced the Court to adopt their clients’ proposed plan, which complies with constitutional requirements and reflects the partisan balance of the school district as a whole.

Mr. Flynn gained extensive trial experience and a reputation for diligence and integrity during his service as an Assistant District Attorney in Philadelphia. Mr. Flynn served in the Homicide Unit, where he was responsible for the investigation, charging, and prosecution of vehicular homicides, as well as prosecuting other types of homicides and non-fatal shootings. During his time as a prosecutor, Mr. Flynn handled thousands of cases and successfully prosecuted a number of serious and high-profile matters, including a hate crime against a synagogue in Northeast Philadelphia and a challenging attempted murder case in the Olney section of the City.

Prior to becoming an attorney, Mr. Flynn served locally in Bucks County as the Military and Veterans Affairs Director on the staff of U.S. Congressman Patrick J. Murphy, the first Iraq war veteran in Congress. In this capacity, Mr. Flynn played a role in finalizing the agreement to establish Washington Crossing VA National Cemetery in Upper Makefield Township.

In his free time, Mr. Flynn enjoys traveling domestically and internationally with his wife, Lara, watching baseball and football (including his Coast Guard Academy Bears football team), reading history, and riding bikes around Bucks County with his son Jackson, who attends elementary school in the Pennsbury School District.

Publications and Public Testimony

Bucks County Herald:  Judge: Central Bucks must go to 3 school board voting districts in 2025, November 6, 2023, available at:  https://buckscountyherald.com/stories/judge-central-bucks-school-district-must-go-to-3-school-board-voting-districts-in-2025-election,28553

Bucks County Courier Times:  Central Bucks incoming board to investigate 11th-hour superintendent severance deal, November 16, 2023, available at:  https://www.phillyburbs.com/story/news/local/2023/11/16/central-bucks-abram-lucabaugh-superintendent-law-lame-duck-pennsylvania-school-code-severance/71594109007/

Testimony before the Committee on Public Safety of the Council of the City of Philadelphia on vehicular hit-and-run accidents, February 24, 2021, available at https://youtu.be/sTKX0zewCCo?t=10928

Medium.com:  For the Commonwealth:  ADA Brendan Flynn, January 27, 2020, available at https://medium.com/philadelphia-justice/for-the-commonwealth-ada-brendan-flynn-ee887d74a8c7

Comment, The War Powers Consultation Act: Keeping War Out of the Zone of Twilight, 64 CATH. U. L. REV. 1007 (2015), available at http://scholarship.law.edu/lawreview/vol64/iss4/10

Charitable, Community, and Civic Involvement

• U.S. Coast Guard Academy Alumni Association
• Service Academy Selection Panel, Office of the U.S. Senator Bob Casey
• Volunteer Mentor, Bucks County Veterans Treatment Program (“Vet Court”)
• Den Leader, Cub Scout Pack 30, Washington Crossing Council
• Truman National Security Project Defense Council
• Brehon Law Society of Philadelphia