Amelia A. DeGory

Amelia DeGory focuses her practice on appellate advocacy, civil litigation, and providing strategic advice to clients facing complex legal challenges, with a particular focus on regulatory and intellectual property litigation.

Amelia has drafted briefs and argued in federal trial and appellate courts. She has represented clients in lawsuits against state and federal government entities and in matters involving a variety of patent-specific issues. Amelia regularly supports teams at trial, including two cases tried to verdict, bench trials, and proceedings before the International Trade Commission (ITC). She has extensive experience drafting and arguing pretrial and post-trial motions, jury charges, and other critical motions. Amelia's practice also includes Supreme Court cases, including APA (Administrative Procedure Act), Fourth Amendment, and patent cases.

Amelia maintains an active pro bono practice, including in the habeas and immigration areas. Recently, she successfully argued a motion for preliminary injunction to prevent the government from removing an immigrant to a third country without sufficient process. She also has argued in the Tenth and Seventh Circuits, including an appeal resulting in reversal of a grant of summary judgment to a prison official on a First Amendment retaliation claim. Amelia 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.