Darren T. Brenner
Partner
Darren T. Brenner joined Wright, Finlay & Zak as a Partner in the Las Vegas, Nevada office. His practice has focused on consumer finance litigation, insurance coverage, and commercial matters since 2003. Mr. Brenner has significant experience with consumer financial transactions, bad faith insurance litigation, insurance coverage litigation, contractual disputes, quiet title, declaratory relief, lien rights, wrongful foreclosure, FDCPA, FCRA, TILA, TCPA, deceptive trade practices, bankruptcy discharge violations, and class actions. Mr. Brenner has served as a speaker, panelist, and author of course materials for the National Business Institute. Mr. Brenner has appeared and argued before the Nevada Supreme Court, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, and has tried more than twenty bench and jury trials.
Mr. Brenner has been litigating insurance coverage matters since 2004, primarily P&C personal and commercial lines, and has taken numerous cases to trial and verdict. He frequently writes and lectures on insurance coverage/extra-contractual and is qualified as an extra-contractual/claims handling expert on behalf of P&C insurer.
Mr. Brenner is licensed to practice before all federal and state district courts in Nevada, U.S. Bankruptcy Court, District of Nevada, Nevada Court of Appeals, Nevada Supreme Court, and the U.S. Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit. He is recognized by peers and was selected to Super Lawyers for 2013-2019 and 2023. He has also been recognized by Nevada Business Magazine as one of Southern Nevada’s top attorneys in Consumer Financial Services and Litigation multiple times, including as recently as 2020.
Education
- University of California, San Diego (B.S., Management Science/Economics, 1999)
- Loyola Law School, Los Angeles (J.D., cum laude, Order of the Coif, 2003)