About Brianna D.
Brianna D. Salerno built her legal foundation in the classroom. She earned a Bachelor of Arts in History from George Washington University’s Mount Vernon campus in 2006. She stayed in the Washington area for law school and received her J.D. from George Mason University School of Law in 2010.
Her first post-law-school position placed her inside the courthouse. In 2010 she served as a law clerk to the Honorable Michael P. Whalen, Criminal Coordinating Judge for the Seventh Judicial Circuit in Prince George’s County, Maryland. That early exposure to courtroom procedure and criminal dockets informed the next step of her career.
Salerno moved into private practice in 2012 as an associate at The Carlberg Law Office. Four years later she joined Livesay & Myers, P.C. as an associate. She became a senior associate in 2019 and advanced to lead senior associate in 2024. Her progression at the firm reflects a steady accumulation of responsibility, from drafting pleadings and motions to managing casework and courtroom appearances.
She is admitted to practice in Virginia and Maryland and is authorized to appear before several federal and appellate courts, including the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia, the 4th Circuit and the D.C. Circuit. That range of admissions allows her to handle matters on both trial and appellate dockets across multiple jurisdictions.
Outside the office she maintains memberships in several local bar organizations. She belongs to the Fairfax Bar Association (since 2017), the Arlington County Bar Association and the Virginia Women Lawyers Association (both since 2018), and she participates in the Alexandria Bar Association’s Beat the Odds Committee, a program that pairs attorneys with young people facing challenging circumstances.
Colleagues describe her work as methodical and court-focused, the sort of practice shaped by years of routine interaction with judges and clerks. Over time she has taken on more complex filings and appellate matters, and she regularly handles procedural and substantive tasks that arise in multi-jurisdictional litigation.
She currently practices at Livesay & Myers, P.C., where she focuses on litigation in state and federal courts, including appellate work.
