Please describe two of your most substantial, recent wins in practice.
I served as first-chair trial counsel in a matter representing four Charlottesville city councilors who were sued in their individual capacities after voting to relocate the Robert E. Lee and Thomas J. Jackson statues at the center of the violent rally in Charlottesville in August 2017. Our Jones Day team advanced important equal protection and immunity arguments, secured the councilors’ right to trial by jury, and ultimately prevailed in getting the councilors dismissed from the suit.
The statues were removed in July 2021 following the enactment of a path-marking ...
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