Zac Hardy joined our New Lawyers Group (NLG) in 2024. 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.
Zac has experience representing global nonprofit organizations in the technology sector through his work at the University of Southern California Gould School of Law's Intellectual Property and Technology Law Clinic. Zac also has courtroom experience from his summer as a judicial extern.
Prior to attending law school, Zac worked on low-probability-of-intercept (missile detection) radar systems and network monitoring software for use in voyage (navigation) systems aboard naval vessels at the Naval Postgraduate School's Center for Cyber Warfare in Monterey, California.
- University of Southern California (J.D. 2024); Santa Clara University (B.S. in Computer Engineering summa cum laude 2021; University Honors Program)
- California, U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California, and registered to practice before the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office
- Extern to Judge Edward J. Davila, U.S. District Court, Northern District of California (Summer 2022)