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Z.W. Julius Chen
Work Department
Supreme Court & Appellate Partner; Disputes & Investigations
Position
Focuses his practice on federal and state appellate litigation. Julius has particular experience relating to administrative and constitutional law, financial restructuring, intellectual property and Native American tribes.
To learn more about Julius, please visit his full profile: https://www.akingump.com/en/lawyers-advisors/z-w-julius-chen.html
Career
Julius Chen represents clients at all stages of appellate litigation and has been a partner in Akin’s Supreme Court & appellate litigation group since 2019. He is the principal drafter of more than a hundred briefs filed in the U.S. Supreme Court and the federal courts of appeals, and he has argued cases in the 6th, 9th, D.C., and Federal Circuits, as well as the Florida Supreme Court. He has also counseled clients on numerous briefs filed in trial courts nationwide. Julius obtained his J.D. from Columbia School of Law with highest honors, and clerked for Judge Rogers on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit and Judge Ellis on the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia.
Memberships
Edward Coke Appellate Inn of Court
The Appellate Project
Georgetown Supreme Court Institute Moot Court Program.
Federal Circuit Bar Association, Amicus Committee Vice Chair
National Asian Pacific American Bar Association
Education
J.D., Columbia Law School, with highest honors, 2009
B.A., Princeton University, magna cum laude, 2005
Lawyer Rankings
United States > Dispute resolution > Appellate: courts of appeals / Appellate: supreme courts (states and federal)
Akin houses a thriving national appellate practice, which is primarily recognized for its record in IP, American Indian law, financial restructuring and labor law cases. Additionally, the wider firm’s formidable regulatory offering marks it as a key player in administrative law and Administrative Procedure Act litigation, as recently evidenced by its wor on behalf of four importers challenging the Trump Administration’s trade war with China, which represents one of the largest cases in the Court of International Trade’s history. Spearheading the group is Washington DC-based Pratik Shah, who has argued seventeen cases before the US Supreme Court and sixty cases in other appellate courts across the country. Shah teamed up with fellow DC-based appellate specialists James E. Tysse and Julius Chen to lead the importer challenge appeal before the Federal Circuit. In San Francisco, Aileen McGrath is noted for her focus on federal and state appellate courts in California.
United States > Intellectual property > Patents: litigation (full coverage)
Led by life sciences expert Steven Maslowski in Philadelphia, the intellectual property group at Akin is experienced in all US patent litigation forums and represents clients in a broad range of technical fields. Also in Philadelphia, Matthew Pearson is a patent attorney specializing in the life sciences sector, and Ruben Muñoz litigates IP disputes for a wide range of tech companies. The group in Washington DC includes seasoned patent litigators Cono Carrano and Brandon Rash, Z.W. Julius Chen, who represents clients in all stages of appellate litigation, and Rachel Elsby, who focuses on patent litigation and appeals to the Federal Circuit. Other key practitioners include patent infringement disputes specialist Michael Kahn in New York and Daniel Moffett in San Antonio, who represents clients in all aspects of IP procurement and protection.
Lawyer Rankings
- Patents: litigation (full coverage) United States > Intellectual property
- Appellate: courts of appeals / Appellate: supreme courts (states and federal) United States > Dispute resolution
Top Tier Firm Rankings
- International trade > Customs, export controls and economic sanctions
- Government > Government relations
- Finance > Restructuring (including bankruptcy): corporate
- International trade > Trade remedies and trade policy
Firm Rankings
- Investment fund formation and management > Alternative/hedge funds
- Media, technology and telecoms > Cyber law (including data privacy and data protection)
- Industry focus > Education
- Energy > Energy transactions: oil and gas
- M&A/corporate and commercial > M&A: middle-market ($500m-999m)
- Media, technology and telecoms > Media and entertainment: transactional
- Industry focus > Native American law
- M&A/corporate and commercial > Corporate governance
- Government > Government contracts
- M&A/corporate and commercial > Private equity buyouts: middle-market (Up to $500m)
- Investment fund formation and management > Private equity funds (including venture capital)
- Energy > Renewable/alternative power
- Dispute resolution > Securities litigation: defense
- Finance > Capital markets: debt offerings
- Finance > Capital markets: high-yield debt offerings
- International trade > CFIUS
- Energy > Energy transactions: electric power
- Environment > Environment: transactional
- Dispute resolution > General commercial disputes
- Labor and employment > Labor and employment disputes (including collective actions)
- Antitrust > Merger control
- Intellectual property > Patents: litigation (International Trade Commission)
- Finance > Project finance
- Media, technology and telecoms > Telecoms and broadcast: regulatory
- Tax > US taxes: non-contentious
- Labor and employment > Workplace and employment counseling
- Healthcare > Life sciences
- Intellectual property > Patents: litigation (full coverage)
- Real estate > Real estate
- Industry focus > Sport
- Dispute resolution > Appellate: courts of appeals / Appellate: supreme courts (states and federal)
- Finance > Commercial lending
- Dispute resolution > Corporate investigations and white-collar criminal defense
- M&A/corporate and commercial > Shareholder activism