Jonathan Urick is senior associate chief counsel at the U.S. Chamber Litigation Center, the litigation arm of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce. Urick handles a variety of litigation matters for the Chamber.
Urick rejoined the Chamber after helping launch the national litigation boutique Lehotsky Keller LLP, where he represented large corporations and trade associations as one of the firm’s early partners. He previously served as senior counsel for the Chamber Litigation Center, primarily covering arbitration and class-action issues.
Before his first stint at the Chamber, Urick practiced law at McGuireWoods LLP on the firm’s appeals and issues team. With a diverse commercial-litigation practice focused on appeals and dispositive motions, Urick represented a variety of businesses across federal and state courts.
Urick served as a law clerk at all three levels of the federal judiciary: For Justices Antonin Scalia and Clarence Thomas of the U.S. Supreme Court, Judge Jeffrey Sutton of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit, and Judge Amul Thapar, then a judge on the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Kentucky.
Urick graduated Order of the Coif from the University of Virginia School of Law, where he served as Articles Development Editor of the Virginia Law Review. He received his undergraduate degree in economics from the University of Delaware.
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Stuart Kyle Duncan, Ira C. “Chip” Lupu, Jason Miyares, Melissa Moschella, Steve Sanders
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Panel 3: Securing the Rights of a Free People
Randy E. Barnett, Rohit Chopra, Stuart Kyle Duncan, Joshua Kleinfeld, Maimon Schwarzschild, Jonathan D. Urick
What responsibility do states have in protecting the rights of their citizens? How should we...
Panel 3: Securing the Rights of a Free People
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The Supreme Court’s decisions in 303 Creative LLC v. Elenis and in Groff v. DeJoy...
Religious Liberty in the Work-and-Market-place
Stuart Kyle Duncan, William N. Eskridge, Aaron M. Streett, Adam Unikowsky, Erin M. Hawley, Kristen K. Waggoner
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The Supreme Court’s decisions in 303 Creative LLC v. Elenis and in Groff v. DeJoy...
Panel 4: Academic Freedom in Higher Education: The Role of States Defending Freedom of Thought
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Showcase Panel III: Lawyers, the Adversarial System, and Social Justice
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2022 National Lawyers Convention
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