Putting the American Worker First in Labor & Employment Law

Lecture by the current Solicitor or Labor Jonathan Berry, hosted by NYU Law's Federalist Society Student Chapter. Lunch will be served. 

Jonathan Berry was confirmed by the United States Senate to serve as the Solicitor of Labor. Before his confirmation, Berry was the managing partner of Boyden Gray PLLC, where he litigated, counseled, spoke, and wrote on labor and employment law and the regulatory process. He previously served at the Department of Labor during the first Trump Administration as acting assistant secretary in the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Policy and at the Department of Justice as counsel to the assistant attorney general in the Office of Legal Policy. Earlier in his career, Berry clerked for Associate Justice Samuel A. Alito, Jr. on the Supreme Court of the United States and for Judge Jerry E. Smith on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit. He also practiced law at Jones Day and Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP. He earned a bachelor’s degree from Yale College and a J.D. from Columbia University School of Law.