 Later, he served in the US Army in the occupation forces in post-war Germany.He completed his studies by earning his law degree in 1954 from George Washington University in Washington D.C.Von Brand worked for almost fifteen years on antitrust cases at the Federal Trade Commission in Washington, D.C. During his legal career he also worked at the Social Security Administration, where he presided over black-lung disability cases brought by Appalachian coal miners.