Meet Bryan Kaufman

Senior Litigation Attorney

About:

Bryan enthusiastically brings over seventeen years of extensive legal experience to the Ragab Law Firm.

Bryan began his career as a state court prosecutor in Florida. There, he handled heavy caseloads encompassing various crimes ranging in severity from petit theft to drug trafficking and murder. He handled plea negotiations, motions practice and hearings, pretrial release hearings, violation of probation hearing, depositions, and discovery production. In less than four years, he tried more than sixty cases.

Bryan then moved to Denver and transitioned to practicing civil litigation at the U.S. Department of Labor’s Office of the Solicitor. There, he provided extensive legal support to various client agencies, including the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) and the Mine Safety and Health Administration (MSHA), the Wage and Hour Division (WHD), and the Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs (OFCCP).

For OSHA, Bryan litigated numerous cases involving violations related to trenching, asbestos warnings and training, personal protective equipment, fall protection, machine guarding, emergency egress, and a complex construction-related fatal general duty clause violation. He represented the Secretary of Labor in five bench trials, and provided advice and comprehensive workplace safety and health, and investigations training to OSHA compliance officers and agency representatives.

For MSHA, Bryan handled numerous, including those involving serious and fatal injuries to miners, and violations of whistleblower protection and individual agent liability sections of the Mine Act. He represented the Secretary of Labor in nine bench trials and trained new mine inspectors and MSHA’s non-lawyer Conference Litigation Representatives on numerous substantive and procedural legal issues.

For the WHD, Bryan analyzed and litigated government contracts and private employer minimum wage, overtime, and fringe benefits cases under the Davis-Bacon and Related Acts, the Service Contract Act, and the Fair Labor Standards Act.

In representing other Department of Labor agencies, Bryan litigated and assisted with investigations of employment discrimination matters which involved allegations of whistleblower retaliation, failure to reasonably accommodate, and violations of military veterans’ USERRA rights, as well as disparate impact and treatment regarding gender, race, and disabilities.

Bryan then litigated property damage, personal injury, and civil rights cases on behalf of the City and County of Denver and its employees.

Bryan values empathy and kindness and loves demystifying the law and legal processes, and empowering others with competence and confidence.

Bryan loves traveling, college football, University of Denver hockey, pizza, and punk rock.