Amos Jones

Amos Jones entered the practice of law in Washington, D.C., following an international fellowship in Australia in May 2007. For three years he was an Associate in international trade and commercial litigation at Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner LLP in Washington, D.C., prior to accepting a full-time professorship in North Carolina in 2010, promoted unanimously in 2015 to the rank of Associate Professor of Law, while establishing the Amos Jones Law Firm of Washington, D.C., as a high-profile practice deploying the power of creative advocacy. Millions in compensation and benefits have been recovered for Firm clients in the intervening years, with three petitions for writs of certiorari filed at the Supreme Court of the United States in 2023 alone. 

Amos Jones practices, lectures, and publishes in the areas of contracts, civil rights, religious freedom, and ethics. His work focuses on employment disputes as well as conflicts resulting from competing liberties enshrined in the U.S. Constitution. Offering fifteen years of Washington-based practice involving national-security regulation as well as employment and religious-liberty litigation, Mr. Jones pursues a unique agenda critiquing legal remedies for various kinds of discrimination as derived from the fundamental law. He also evaluates the legal profession’s moderating function amid the clashing of groups’ interests. Recent publications include articles in the Tulsa Law Review, Widener Journal of Law, Economics & Race, the Georgia State University Law Review, and the North Carolina Law Review. He has presented by invitation to audiences on four continents, including at Harvard Law School, the University of Chicago, Georgetown University, and the University of Kentucky in the United States and Monash University (Australia), Universidad de Los Andes (Colombia/South America), and Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf (Germany/Europe) abroad. He is admitted before several federal courts including the Supreme Court of the United States and has litigated signature cases of first impression on behalf of plaintiffs in employment cases before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit, and the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit. His current docket includes numerous federal actions against large, powerful interests, including agencies of the federal government. He remains among the most widely quoted authorities in the world on the Foreign Agents Registration Act of 1938, an increasingly influential statute about which he has written for more than a decade, including in an inaugural journal of the International Bar Association.