Amelia A. DeGory

Amelia DeGory focuses her practice on appellate advocacy, civil litigation, and providing strategic advice to clients facing complex legal challenges.

Amelia has drafted briefs and argued in federal trial and appellate courts. In addition, she has helped research and draft a merits brief and several petitions for certiorari before the U.S. Supreme Court. She has represented clients in lawsuits against state and federal government entities and in matters involving a variety of patent-specific issues. Amelia also supports teams at trial, including two cases tried to verdict, and has experience drafting pretrial and post-trial motions, jury charges, and other critical motions.

Amelia maintains an active pro bono practice, including in the habeas and immigration areas. Recently, she successfully argued a Seventh Circuit appeal resulting in reversal of a grant of summary judgment to a prison official on a First Amendment retaliation claim. Amelia also serves as a member of the board of directors of Communities In Schools of The Nation's Capital (CISNCAP).

Before joining Jones Day, Amelia served as a judicial law clerk on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit and the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania. Prior to attending law school, she taught ninth grade world history in Philadelphia.