[1] He received his Bachelor of Arts from Swarthmore College and his Juris Doctor from Stanford Law School.

[2] Biran served as a law clerk for Judge David F. Levi of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of California.

From 2000 to 2006, he served as an Assistant United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut and he also served as an Assistant United States Attorney from 2006 to 2013 under Rod Rosenstein in the District of Maryland working on fraud and public corruption matters, he served Chief of the Maryland U.S. Attorney's Office from 2010 to 2013.

[3] Prior to his appointment to the court in 2019, he was a partner with Baker Donelson where he practiced both criminal defense and appellate law.

[2][4] In September 2019, it was reported that Biran was one of ten lawyers who applied for a vacant seat on the Supreme Court of Maryland left by the retirement of Clayton Greene Jr.[5] On December 9, 2019, Governor Larry Hogan announced his appointment of Biran to be a Justice of the Supreme Court of Maryland.