John is an attorney in Vinson & Elkins LLP’s Houston office. His principal area of practice is complex commercial litigation.
Credentials
Harvard University, J.D. cum laude, 2017 (Executive Editor, Harvard Journal of Law & Public Policy; Research Assistant to Professors Charles Fried, Mary Ann Glendon, and Richard Lazarus; Executive Board, Catholic Law Students Association)
University of Notre Dame, B.A., German and the Program of Liberal Studies cum laude, 2011
Judicial clerk for the Honorable Jennifer Walker Elrod, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, 2019-2020
Judicial clerk for the Honorable Paul Barbadoro, U.S. District Court for the District of New Hampshire, 2018-2019
Judicial clerk for the Honorable Nathaniel M. Gorton, U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts, 2017-2018
Fulbright English Teaching Assistant, Germany, 2011-2012
Member: St. Thomas More Society (Houston)
Member: The Federalist Society
Texas
U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
German (proficient)
Second-Best Originalism and Regulatory Takings, 41 Harvard Journal of Law & Public Policy 373, 2018 (author)
