MounirJamal

Associate

Chicago + 1.312.269.1504

Mounir Jamal focuses his practice on intellectual property litigation, with an emphasis on patent, trademark, and trade secrets litigation in district courts across the country. Prior to joining Jones Day, Mounir clerked for Judge James R. Sweeney II in the United States District Court for the Southern District of Indiana. During his clerkship Mounir drafted a variety of substantive orders, and he spent extensive time working on a complex patent dispute, beginning at the summary judgment stage, and proceeding through trial and post-trial motions. Mounir also clerked for Judge Thomas L. Kirsch II on the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit.

During law school, Mounir was a board member of the Inmate Legal Assistance Project, a pro bono project dedicated to providing legal research to incarcerated individuals. Mounir also volunteered with Outreach for Legal Literacy, where he helped teach basic civics to local elementary students. Prior to law school, Mounir worked for several years as a bioprocessing scientist in the pharmaceutical industry, helping optimize monoclonal antibody (mAb) production in bioreactors and scaling the processes up to manufacturing.