Brian Murray

Brian Murray received a bachelor's degree in Chemical Engineering from the University of Notre Dame in 1997.  He attended the Notre Dame Law School, where he graduated with highest honors in 2000 and was awarded the Col. William J. Hoynes Prize.  He was an Articles Editor on the Law Review.  Mr. Murray clerked for the Hon. Diarmuid O'Scannlain of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, and for the Hon. Antonin Scalia of the Supreme Court of the United States.   

Mr. Murray practices with the Chicago Office of Jones Day, where he leads the Issues & Appeals Section.  He represents clients at all levels of state and federal courts in a wide array of cases including antitrust, patent, copyright, labor and employment, consumer fraud, section 1983, and real estate.  He is an experienced appellate litigator, having briefed dozens of cases in the Supreme Court, the U.S. Courts of Appeals, and various state courts, and argued more than half a dozen of them.  He has significant experience in complex litigation, including class actions, MDLs, and coordinated state proceedings.  And he is the author of A Theory of Federal Common Law, 100 Nw. U. L. Rev. 585  (2006) (with Jay Tidmarsh), and Threats, Free Speech, and the Jurisprudence of the Federal Criminal Law, 2002 B.Y.U. L. Rev. 829 (2002) (with G. Robert Blakey).

Mr. Murray serves on the Executive Committee of the Chicago-Lincoln American Inn of Court and on the Litigation Steering Committee of the National Immigrant Justice Center.  He lives in Glen Ellyn with his wife, Carol, and children, Aidan, Sophie, and Kieran.