The phrase "a brief from a" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to a short document or summary that is received from a specific source or person.
Example: "I received a brief from a colleague outlining the key points of the meeting."
Alternatives: "a summary from a" or "a report from a".
Would he add his name to a brief from a group of law professors urging a federal court to uphold the health care overhaul law?
The challenge for entrants is to respond to a brief from a charity in 24 hours for print, cyber and media entries and 48 hours for film.
It helps for them to have an angle: The justices may be more likely to read a brief from a group of scholars with specialized expertise than one from, say, a trade group.
As a brief from a group of state and local elections officials from around the country said, "Efforts by noncitizens to register and vote are exceedingly rare" and do not justify making it harder for voters to register.
The morning of August 4, 2012 — "Landing Day Minus One," as the NASA engineers called it — began with a briefing from a few of the project leaders.
Separately today, both Microsoft and the government filed briefs with the appeals court commenting on the court's decision last week to take a briefing from a technology expert on some of the technical questions underlying the case.
My report followed a briefing from a cabinet office official who told me it had been decided that sharing personal data was fine unless it had been explicitly prevented.
He said he had concluded after a briefing from a top intelligence official in January that the government's policy in Iraq was an "absolute fiasco .There were signs, however, that some of Mr Latham's colleagues were taken by surprise by Mr Latham's pronouncement.
Reuters reported that Trump did not receive a briefing from a Russia expert from the National Security Council before the call with Putin, as most presidents do before a call with another nation's leader.
A ministerial committee met, with a brief from Downing Street finally to get a resolution of the issue.
I write pitches for music videos and commercials, which involves coming up with an idea from a brief from the record label or a script from a commercial agency.
