Amul Kalia joined our New Lawyers Group (NLG) in 2021. The NLG provides our newest lawyers with the opportunity to gain exposure to different practice areas and lawyering styles before making a commitment to a specific practice. Individuals in the NLG may focus on a particular area of practice, or compare practices, during their first year with Jones Day.
Prior to attending law school, Amul worked for the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), a leading nonprofit digital rights organization, where he spent a considerable amount of his time speaking and writing about privacy and cybersecurity issues, including computer hacking laws, privacy rights at the United States border, and legislative proposals to strengthen privacy and cybersecurity laws at the state and federal levels.
In law school, Amul interned with the San Francisco City Attorney's Data Privacy Task Force where he helped with implementing the San Francisco ordinance restricting surveillance technologies. Amul also externed with the California Attorney General's Privacy Unit and assisted with investigations and enforcement activities related to the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) and its successor, the California Privacy Rights Act (CPRA).
Experience
- University of California, Hastings College of the Law (J.D. cum laude 2021); University of California, Berkeley (B.A. in Political Science 2012, with a minor in Public Policy)
- California
- Extern, Consumer Protection Section, Privacy Unit, Attorney General's Office, California Department of Justice (Spring 2021)
- Extern to Judge Jacqueline Scott Corley, U.S. District Court, Northern District of California (Spring 2020)
- Fluent in Hindi and Punjabi and conversant in Spanish