Experience

Before founding Codias Law, Brown worked on national and homeland security policies in both the U.S. House and Senate. He began his legal career on staff for the Chairman of the U.S. Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, where he served on the Special Investigation into Hurricane Katrina – one of the highest-profile congressional investigations since Watergate. This experience gave him unique insights into planning and executing professional investigations, valuable for conducting immigration fraud investigations even today.

Brown also served as Legislative Counsel for a member of the U.S. House Homeland Security Committee, where he managed a national security portfolio and helped oversee the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS), including U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, and U.S. Customs and Border Protection. His time on Capitol Hill provided him with an in-depth understanding of DHS and its key components, laying the groundwork for understanding the policies, procedures, and practices of U.S. immigration agencies in immigration fraud cases.

Later, Brown was recruited to help modernize the U.S. National Security Council (NSC) system through the Project on National Security Reform, a congressionally funded public-private partnership of leading national security practitioners and experts. As Senior Counsel and Chief of Legal Research, he authored The National Security Council: A Legal History of the President’s Most Powerful Advisers, featured on C-SPAN/BookTV.

Brown worked with senior leaders at the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) and the National Counterterrorism Center (NCTC) as part of a select team to improve joint operational planning and intelligence coordination for the U.S. counterterrorism mission across the interagency. The team’s work was described by NCTC in The New York Times as “an extremely thoughtful and useful critique of how counterterrorism actions are or are not fully synchronized across the U.S. government.”

These experiences deepened Brown’s understanding of interagency processes, essential for addressing immigration issues that frequently cut across multiple departments and agencies, including USCIS, ICE, CBP, the State Department, the Justice Department, as well as NSC and various interagency task forces.

Beyond his legal and policy work, Brown served as the Iowa campaign manager for the winner of the 2012 Iowa presidential caucuses, defeating the establishment candidate in one of the biggest upsets in modern presidential campaign history. This victory, on one of the nation’s biggest political stages, showcased what is possible with wise strategy, effective execution, and determination against powerful opponents.

Brown also founded a tech startup that gained national recognition, giving him a deep understanding of the capabilities of data and software. This expertise has proven invaluable in litigation, where a strong grasp of technology and data is critical for identifying and collecting evidence of immigration fraud through formal discovery processes.

Brown’s professional work has appeared on C-SPAN, Fox News, Daily Caller, Breitbart, Christian Science Monitor, and National Review.