Jamie Durling is an associate in the Litigation Department and a member of the Supreme Court & Appellate Litigation Practice Group. He represents parties in complex civil and criminal matters in federal and state courts across the nation, with a focus on appellate litigation and legal strategy. His appellate work has touched on issues involving constitutional, antitrust, bankruptcy, insurance and federal criminal law, as well as arbitration and federal court procedure. He successfully briefed and argued an appeal on behalf of a group of prisoners, resulting in the Second Circuit’s reversal of the district court’s grant of qualified immunity on free exercise claims involving Native American religious practices.
Before joining the firm, Jamie clerked for Justices Anthony M. Kennedy and Brett M. Kavanaugh of the U.S. Supreme Court and Judges Amul R. Thapar and Raymond M. Kethledge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit. He also previously served as an Attorney-Adviser at the Office of Legal Counsel of the U.S. Department of Justice, where he advised the White House and Executive Branch agencies on questions of constitutional and administrative law. For his work, he received a John Marshall Award, the Justice Department’s highest award for contributions and excellence in specialized areas of legal performance.
Jamie’s significant representations include:
- Healthcare providers in an Eleventh Circuit case involving the constitutionality of the False Claims Act’s qui tam provisions;
- A foreign audiovisual and multimedia company in a Ninth Circuit breach-of-contract appeal resulting in the reversal of a $26 million jury verdict;
- The National Football League in cases concerning the arbitrability of disputes under the NFL Constitution; and
- CNA Financial Corporation in a series of appeals concerning insurance coverage for business losses resulting from the COVID-19 pandemic.
