Townsend_James

James Townsend

Townsend_James

James Townsend

Associate

Washington DC + 1 202 663 6436

James Townsend focuses his practice on complex litigation and arbitration matters. Mr. Townsend was previously a summer associate at the firm.

Before returning to the firm, Mr. Townsend clerked for the Honorable Claude M. Hilton at the US District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia. During law school, he was a judicial extern to the Honorable Amit P. Mehta at the US District Court for the District of Columbia. Mr. Townsend has also worked at the US Attorney Office for the Southern District of New York, where he was a criminal division intern. Prior to law school, Mr. Townsend was an honors paralegal at the Federal Trade Commission in the Office of the General Counsel.

Credentials

  • Education

    • JD, Georgetown University Law Center, 2023

      cum laude

      Executive Editor, The Annual Review of Criminal Procedure, The Georgetown Law Journal

      Law Fellow, Legal Research and Writing Program

    • BA, Political Science with a concentration in International Relations and a minor in Middle Eastern Studies, University of Pennsylvania, 2017

      magna cum laude

  • Admissions

    • District of Columbia

    • US Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit

  • Clerkships

    • The Hon. Claude M. Hilton, US District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia, 2023 - 2024

Credentials

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