Principal-led. Senior by default.
The Brannan Firm is built around Ryan Brannan. Clients hire Ryan and work with Ryan — in the pitch, in the hearing room, and on the phone with your board. Not a pyramid, and never one-size-fits-all.
Ryan built this firm on the premise that clients deserve an advocate who has actually run an agency — not someone who has only ever petitioned one.
As Texas Commissioner of Workers' Compensation at the Texas Department of Insurance, he led an agency of more than 600 employees with a biennial budget exceeding $100 million. He is a three-time gubernatorial appointee, trusted with public office by Governors Rick Perry and Greg Abbott. Earlier, he advised Governor Perry on insurance, public health, tort reform, and business regulation.
A practicing attorney with a background in commercial and insurance litigation, Ryan serves as counsel to Glast, Phillips & Murray and has authored the Texas Bar Journal's insurance-law legislative recap across four consecutive sessions. His work has been published or cited in more than a dozen periodicals, including the Wall Street Journal, the Dallas Morning News, and the Houston Chronicle. His cumulative policy portfolio spans appropriations and procurement, insurance, public health, tort reform, consumer finance, transportation and infrastructure, water rights, land use, eminent domain, and telecommunications. He holds a B.A. and M.B.A. from Southern Methodist University and a J.D. from the University of Oklahoma.
Adrienne is the reason nothing reaches a client late. She runs the firm's legislative tracking, Texas Ethics Commission filings, and session reporting across the full client roster — turning committee activity into the summaries that land in client inboxes while the information still has value.
During session she produces the passed-bill breakdowns and priority-watch reports clients take straight to their own boards, and manages the event and stakeholder logistics that put the firm's clients in front of the members who matter. She joined the firm from a Capitol office and works directly with clients across the roster, from coastal port authorities to statewide associations.
What a deliberately small firm does better.
Any firm can list biographies. The question a prospective client should ask is what the structure does for their issue.
A regulator in the room
A former Texas agency head who has been the audience for a thousand pitches like the one across the table. When an agency is the decision-maker, we know how the decision actually gets made — because we have made it.
An attorney on the issue
A practicing Texas lawyer and counsel to a Dallas firm. Drafting, compliance, and ethics questions get answered in-house, at no additional cost to the client.
Fluent in every room
State agency leadership, municipal and port-authority representation, statewide associations, and national employer coalitions. We translate between those worlds daily.
Principal attention, every time
Clients hire Ryan and get Ryan. The firm deliberately takes on fewer clients than it could, so it stays that way.
Nothing falls through
A dedicated coordinator means tracking, filings, and reporting are somebody's actual job — not something a lobbyist does at midnight between hearings.
A direct line, all session
Call, text, or email at any hour of session. When something moves at 10 p.m., you hear about it that night — while there is still time to act on it.
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