Practice areas: Employment Litigation, Appellate, Civil Rights; view more
Licensed in Washington DC since: 2007
Education: Harvard Law School
Selected to Super Lawyers: 2020 - 2026 
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Amos Jones, the principal attorney of Amos Jones Law Firm, based in Washington, D.C., where he represents clients in employment litigation, civil rights, constitutional law, appellate matters and personal injury cases. His practice includes claims involving the Americans with Disabilities Act, employment discrimination, race discrimination, retaliation, wrongful termination and sexual abuse, as well as personal injury matters.
Mr. Jones brings a broad litigation and appellate practice to his representation of individuals facing significant legal challenges. His work encompasses complex disputes involving workplace rights and discrimination, constitutional protections and civil liberties. He also handles appeals and personal injury claims, providing clients with focused legal guidance throughout the litigation process.
His practice reflects a commitment to advocating for individuals whose rights have been violated or who have suffered harm through unlawful conduct. His experience across employment, civil rights and appellate matters enables him to approach cases from multiple legal perspectives while developing strategies tailored to the circumstances of each client.
Mr. Jones earned his bachelor’s degree, cum laude, from Emory University before receiving a master’s degree from Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism. He later earned his Juris Doctor from Harvard Law School. His academic background combines legal training with a foundation in journalism, providing a multidisciplinary perspective that informs his approach to advocacy and litigation.
Admitted to practice before multiple federal courts, Mr. Jones is admitted to the U.S. District Courts for the District of Columbia, District of Maryland and Western District of Pennsylvania. He is also admitted before the U.S. Courts of Appeals for the 2nd, 3rd, 4th and 6th Circuits, as well as the U.S. Courts of Appeals for the District of Columbia and Federal Circuits. In addition, he is admitted to practice before the Supreme Court of the United States.
Active in professional and civic organizations, Mr. Jones serves as president of the Rotary Club of Federal City and as co-convenor of the District of Columbia Chapter of the National Conference of Black Lawyers.
Practice areas
Employment Litigation: Plaintiff, Appellate, Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Personal Injury - General: PlaintiffFocus areas
Americans with Disabilities Act, Appeals, Discrimination, Employment Discrimination, Personal Injury - Plaintiff, Race Discrimination, Retaliation, Sexual Abuse - Plaintiff, Wrongful Termination
- 40% Employment Litigation: Plaintiff
- 20% Appellate
- 20% Civil Rights
- 10% Constitutional Law
- 10% Personal Injury - General: Plaintiff
First Admitted: 2007, Washington DC
Professional Webpage: https://amosjones.com/our-team
Bar / Professional Activity
- Co-Convenor, District of Columbia Chapter of the National Conference of Black Lawyers
- Supreme Court of the United States
- U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit
- U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit
- U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
- U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit
- U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit
- U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
- U.S. District Court, Western District of Pennsylvania
- U.S. District Court, District of Maryland
- U.S. District Court, District of Columbia
- District of Columbia
Videos
- As a practicing attorney representing numerous whistle-blowers working within our federal government across the world, Amos Jones provided analysis and commentary early in the impeachment inquiry of 2019. 'Separation of powers and the attorney-client privilege (legal ethics) are front and center, and the public deserves independent/unbiased thinking along these lines if we are to think and act responsibly. I, for one, do not see a constitutional crisis (yet). I see a political brawl. Find out why in these five minutes from Sept. 30's TRT World evening newscast live from Washington, D.C.", Democrats subpoena Trump lawyer Rudy Giuliani, Amos Jones weighs in, Law And Government, 2019
- “What really concerned these clients is that while they were recovering and telling their stories, they were accused of lying about having been told that they would face repercussions, including termination, if they left their jobs,” said Amos Jones, an attorney representing employees, on “NewsNation Prime” on Sunday. “And that really hurt.”, ‘Really hurt’: Attorney says candle factory survivors accused of lying, Employment, 2021
Representative Clients
- Have reached numerous private-client settlements in their employment disputes totaling in the millions in cash and benefits since 2011.
Transactions
- Developed alternative dispute resolution process for startup valued at $30 million that has conserved resources for employees and client-company., 2023
Special Licenses / Certifications
- Certified Personal Trainer, Advanced Sports & Fitness (CI# 71129), 2018
- Amos Jones is admitted, as of 2024, in all of: the District of Columbia and before, the U.S. District Court, District of Columbia, the U.S. District Court, District of Maryland, the U.S. District Court, Western District of Pennsylvania, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second 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 Sixth Circuit, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, and the Supreme Court of the United States., 2024
Pro bono / Community Service
- President, Rotary Club of Federal City
- Chairman of the Board, Seymour Institute for Black Church & Policy Studies, 2024
- Co-Convener, National Conference of Black Lawyers, D.C. Chapter, 2020
Educational Background
- Academic Visitor, Faculty of Law, University of Oxford, 2015
- Fulbright Postgraduate Award studies in comparative constitutional law, University of Melbourne, 2007
- J.D., Harvard Law School, 2006
- Master of Science, Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism, 2003
- Bachelor of Arts, cum laude in Political Science, Emory University, Burt and Betty Schear Family Prize as the undergraduate, 2000
White Papers
- Quoted in Aiden Pink report on FARA compliance matters, The Jewish Gastroenterologist Who Worked As An Agent For An Arab Sheikdom, Law And Government, 2018
- Quoted in Eric Lipton, Brooke Williams and Nicholas Confessore, Foreign Powers Buy Influence at Think Tanks, N.Y. Times, Sept. 6, 2014, at https://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/07/us/politics/foreign-powers-buy-influence-at-think-tanks.html., Foreign Powers Buy Influence at Think Tanks, Law And Government, 2014
- Quoted in Aiden Pink, Did This Pro-Israel Superstar Work As A Secret Agent On College Campuses?, The Forward, Oct. 23, 2018, available at https://forward.com/news/israel/412206/did-this-pro-israel-superstar-work-as-a-secret-agent-on-college-campuses/. , Did This Pro-Israel Superstar Work As A Secret Agent On College Campuses?,, Law, Government, 2018
Scholarly Lectures / Writings
- This article boldly sets forth creative solutions to serious and justice-destroying problems bedeviling the federal courts of the United States. , Author, Juridical Intimidation from Greenwood Onward: Systemic Racism, Economic Terror, and a Call for Curative Court Reform, Tulsa Law Review, Law, Education, Business, 2022
- The Tulsa Race Massacre is believed to be the single worst discrete incident of racial violence in American history. During the course of eighteen bloody hours on May 31 and June 1, 1921, more than one thousand homes and businesses were destroyed, and as many as three hundred people killed. By the time the violence ended, Oklahoma’s second-largest African American community had been burned to the ground. As the Oklahoma Historical Society summarized: “The outbreak occurred during an era of acute racial tensions, characterized by the birth and rapid growth of the so-called second Ku Klux Klan and by the determined efforts of African Americans to resist attacks upon their communities, particularly in the matter of lynching.” So, what does a 1921 state-sponsored white massacre of a relatively wealthy Black community in America’s 48th state have to tell us about our own here and now? Join Amos Jones in a lecture that grapples with this and related questions and promises to offer what, to many, might seem to be some surprising answers., Lecturer, What the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre and its Observances Reveal about Human Relations Today, Yorkminster Park Baptist Churc, Education, Civil Rights, Legal History, 2021
- Quoted in John Cook, Like Mike Flynn, Monica Crowley Worked as an Unregistered Foreign Agent, June 7, 2017, The Slot (Gizmodo), available at https://theslot.jezebel.com/like-mike-flynn-monica-crowley-worked-as-an-unregister-1795870003., Authority, Like Mike Flynn, Monica Crowley Worked as an Unregistered Foreign Agent, The Slot, Law And Government, 2017
- Over the last twenty years, eminent scholars such as David Wilkins have paid considerable attention to the “new blackcorporate bar” as a phenomenon worthy of treatment. This Article builds on that work by introducing a fascinating lawpractice reality that developed in a unique setting in the early 1900s American South. What if Wall Street had been black? What if its elite feeder institutions had been black? What if the black bar were, in a corporate economy of scale, relatively sizable? These questions might make for fascinating counterfactuals, if not for the concrete reality that such a community—albeit small—actually existed, expanded, and prospered in midcentury Durham, North Carolina. Coining the term “old black corporate bar” to stand in distinction to the “new black corporate bar,” the Article analyzes the world in which that exceptional and heretofore unexamined black bar germinated and influenced a relatively sophisticated legal landscape in a moderate, midsized southern city backdropped by a laissez-faire white leadership class that proved progressive for racial relations., Author, The "Old" Black Corporate Bar: Durham 's Wall Street, 1898-1971, North Carolina Law Review, Law, 2014
- Marissa Newman, From ‘labeling’ NGOs to police pat-downs to Shabbat bans, Knesset bills make waves, Times of Israel, Jan. 25, 2016, available at http://www.timesofisrael.com/from-labeling-ngos-to-police-pat-downs-the-knesset-bills-making-waves/, Authority, From ‘labeling’ NGOs to police pat-downs to Shabbat bans, Knesset bills make waves, The Times of Israel, Law And Government, 2016
- Quoted in Lia Fowler, Pay-to-Play Lobbying by U.S. Think Tanks: Focus on Colombia, Periodismo Sin Fronteras, Oct. 22, 2016, available at https://www.periodismosinfronteras.org/pay-to-play-lobbying-by-u-s-think-tanks-focus-on-colombia.html?lang=en, Authority, Pay-to-Play Lobbying by U.S. Think Tanks: Focus on Colombia, Periodismo Sin Fronteras, Law And Government, 2016
Other Outstanding Achievements
- Received Albert M. Marquis Lifetime Achievement Award from Publishers of Who's Who in America, 2019
- Received America's Top 100 Lifetime Achievement award as rated among the top 1/2 percent of active attorneys in the country based on outstanding results, superior ethics, and considerable civic impact. , 2018
Honors
- WASHINGTON LAWYER AMOS N. JONES NAMED TO AMERICA’S top 100 attorneys® HONOR ACCOMPANIES COVETED LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD July 10, 2018 – America’s Top 100 Attorneys® has selected Washington civil-rights and constitutional appellate attorney Amos N. Jones as a Lifetime Achievement honoree. Lifetime Achievement selection to America’s Top 100 Attorneys® is by invitation only and is reserved to identify the nation’s most exceptional attorneys, those whose accomplishments and impact on the legal profession merit a Lifetime Achievement award, said Kevin Wieser, Membership Director of America’s Top 100 Attorneys. “Selection is not achieved based on a single accomplishment or a single great year of success, but rather on a lifetime of hard work, ethical standards, and community-enriching accomplishments that are inspiring among the legal profession,” Wieser said. “With these extremely high standards for selection to America’s Top 100 Attorneys®, less than one-half percent (0.5%) of active attorneys in the United States will receive this honor — truly the most exclusive and elite level of attorneys in the community.” Jones, 40, has enjoyed a highly successful academic and practice-oriented career, with a Fulbright fellowship to Australia’s University of Melbourne in 2006-07 and a 2015 Visitorship to the Law Faculty at the University of Oxford in England following unanimous promotion to Associate Professor of Law at a North Carolina university in 2015. In 2017, he was rated a Super Lawyers Rising Star in employment law and in 2016 was listed as a Top 40 under 40 African-American lawyer by a national rating body. He has repeatedly won high-profile, unanimous appellate victories in cases of first impression. Jones said he was humbled upon receiving official word that he had been awarded the Lifetime Achievement accolade. “I am truly gratified that our work on behalf of victims all over the world has been recognized in my home jurisdiction in this way,” he said. “I look forward to many more years ahead of providing top-quality client service in our core practice areas of civil rights and constitutional law while employing the highest ethical standards and professionalism to our often vulnerable clientele.” To help ensure that all attorneys selected for membership meet the very high standards expected for selection, candidates for lifetime membership are carefully screened through a comprehensive Qualitative Comparative Analysis based on a broad array of criteria, including the candidate’s professional experience, lifetime achievements, significant case results, peer reputation, and community impact. Jones earned a law degree from Harvard in 2006, a master’s degree in journalism from Columbia University in 2003, and a bachelor’s degree in political science, cum laude, from Emory University in 2000, which he attended on National Merit, Coca-Cola, and Robert W. Woodruff Scholarships. A 1999 Truman Scholar, he spent the first three years of his legal career practicing in the international trade and commercial litigation groups of Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner LLP in Washington, D.C., before simultaneously joining the legal academy and opening his Amos Jones Law Firm on K Street in Washington, D.C., in August 2010. # # #, Top 100 Attorneys Lifetime Achievement Award, Kevin Wieser, Membership Director, 2018
- Marquis Who’s Who, the world’s premier publisher of biographical profiles, presented this Albert Nelson Marquis Lifetime Achievement Award in May 2019, stating: "An accomplished listee, Mr. Jones celebrates many years’ experience in his professional network, and has been noted for achievements, leadership qualities, and the credentials and successes he has accrued in his field. As in all Marquis Who’s Who biographical volumes, individuals profiled are selected on the basis of current reference value. Factors such as position, noteworthy accomplishments, visibility, and prominence in a field are all taken into account during the selection process.", Albert M. Marquis Lifetime Achievement Award, Marquis Who's Who in America, 2019
- Academic Visitor to the Faculty of Law, University of Oxford, 2015
- Elaine Exton Award for Business Reporting, Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism, 2003
- Harry S. Truman Scholar, 1999
Industry Groups
- Private Client
- Religious Institutions
- Startups
Selections
7 Years Super Lawyers
1 Year Rising Stars
- Super Lawyers: 2020 - 2026
- Rising Stars: 2017
