Brandon B. Cate

Mr. Cate is a litigation attorney in the firm’s Northwest Arkansas office. His practice focuses on commercial litigation, including litigation concerning ERISA, employment, mortgage servicing, real estate, media law, eminent domain, products liability, and class action defense. His experience includes representing defendants in putative class actions filed in Arkansas and Missouri regarding Internet practices, defending a national mortgage servicer in a putative class action concerning mortgage practices, and defending a publicly traded company in a putative class action against claims of employment discrimination. He has defended mortgage servicers in litigation filed in Arkansas, Missouri, Minnesota, Tennessee, Kansas, and Mississippi. He regularly represents insurance companies in ERISA-benefits and other group-benefits litigation in Arkansas and Tennessee courts. He also represented a natural gas pipeline company in successfully securing through eminent domain a right of way covering the distance of one-half of the State of Arkansas. Mr. Cate is listed in The Best Lawyers in America® in the areas of Commercial Litigation, Eminent Domain and Condemnation Law, Employee Benefits (ERISA) Law, Litigation - ERISA, and Litigation – Labor & Employment (Fayetteville Lawyer of the Year 2022 and 2025), and Media Law. He is recognized in the area of Employee Benefits by Super Lawyers and was named to the 2016 Under 40 Hot List, a Future Star in Litigation, and a Labor & Employment Star - South by Benchmark Litigation. He is rated AV Preeminent® by Martindale-Hubbell.