Zoe Speas joined our New Lawyers Group (NLG) in 2025. 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.
Zoe is author of "The Fiction of Equitable Distribution: Military Divorce, Disability, and the Dire Plight of the Former Spouse," 82 Wash. & Lee L. Rev. 427 (2025).
- Washington and Lee University (J.D. summa cum laude 2025; Order of the Coif; Executive Editor, Washington and Lee Law Review; Recipient: James W. H. Stewart Tax Law Award, 2025; Roy L. Steinheimer Jr. Commercial Law Award, 2025; W&L Law Council Award for Outstanding Student Note, 2024; Scholarship for Excellence in Constitutional Law – Baronial Order of Magna Charta-Magna Carta, 2024); The College of William and Mary (Double B.A. in English and Theater cum laude 2012)
- District of Columbia and Virginia
- Intern to Judge John A. Gibney Jr., U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Virginia (Summer 2023)
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