Brett M. Becker

As an attorney in our Construction group, Brett’s practice focuses on a wide range of construction matters, representing general contractors, subcontractors, owners, and suppliers. His construction experience includes, but is not limited to, contractual disputes, defects, delays, lien and bond claims, and matters of recent updates to tax law on construction projects. He also represents clients in a wide array of business litigation, and has previously defended clients in Federal, State and multi-district court litigation.

Brett also represents clients in a range of business litigation matters. He has experience in pharmaceutical and medical device litigation as well as products liability litigation. Brett also has experience advising and helping clients enforce their warehouseman’s lien rights, executing on judgement in the supplemental process of the courts, and defending clients on a wide variety of negligence and other tort actions.

Brett practiced in New Jersey after graduating, cum laude  and 10th in his class from Wake Forest University School of Law in 2014. He is a 2011 graduate of Clemson University with a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science, summa cum laude.

Community & Professional

Guilford County Bar Association

F3 - Greensboro

Clemson Triad Alumni Board, Secretary

Outside Maynard Nexsen

Outside of work, Brett enjoys spending time with his wife, Anna, their three young children, and their two dogs, Dixie and Remington. He enjoys being outdoors running and biking or playing golf and lacrosse. He played lacrosse for one year at Gordon College (Division III) before transferring to Clemson University where he played club lacrosse. Brett currently enjoys training for marathons, triathlons, and any race he can get on a calendar. Brett is active with F3 Greensboro where he is more commonly known as J-Woww. 

• Listed in Best Lawyers in America for Construction Law, 2025
• North Carolina Super Lawyers Rising Star, Construction Litigation, (2023-Present)
• Business North Carolina's "Legal Elite, Young Guns," 2022
• Listed in Best Lawyers, "Ones to Watch" for Construction Law (2022-2024); Litigation-Construction (2023-2024)
• Recognized by Chambers USA, Construction, North Carolina (2021-Present)
• Order of the Coif
• Wake Forest Law Review
• Champion - 2014 Wake Forest Trial Bar Zeliff Trial Competition
• Spring 2013 North Carolina Advocates for Justice Award Recipient
• CALI Awards: Torts, Remedies, Trial Practice, Construction Law, Funeral and Cemetery Law
• Fall 2011 Trial Bar Competition - Honorable Mention

• New North Carolina Sales Tax Provisions for Contracts Related to Real Property, February 21, 2017
• Brett Becker, "Danger Doesn’t End at the Grave," in CEMETERY LAW: THE COMMON LAW OF BURYING GROUNDS IN THE UNITED STATES 302 (2015).
• Brett M. Becker & John R. Sechrist II, Empirical Study, "Claims of Unconscionability: An Empirical Study of the Prevailing Analysis in North Carolina", 49 WAKE FOREST L. REV. 663, (Summer 2014)