About Gregory F.
Gregory F. Miller entered the legal world after a varied academic path that combined literature and communications before law. He earned a B.A. in English Literature from Rice University, completed an M.A. in Communications at the University of Oklahoma, and took his law degree at the University of California, Berkeley School of Law, graduating in 2012. Those years shaped a practitioner comfortable with both close textual analysis and the demands of high-stakes advocacy.
His early career followed the traditional clerkship ladder. He served as a law clerk to Judge Amul Thapar at the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Kentucky, then clerked for Chief Judge Ed Carnes on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit. In 2017 he had a post at the Supreme Court of the United States. Those positions put him at the center of federal adjudication at three levels and gave him repeated exposure to appellate briefing and court procedure.
After his clerkships he entered private practice. He joined Vinson & Elkins as an associate in 2015, where he worked on matters that required coordination across teams and attention to federal litigation practice. In 2021 he became a partner at Perkins Coie LLP. That move placed him in a firm known for national litigation and regulatory work, expanding his platform for appellate and trial-related assignments.
Miller maintains active bar memberships in two states. He has been a member of the State Bar of Texas since 2013 and joined the Washington State Bar in 2020. Those admissions reflect a practice that spans jurisdictions and that can engage both regional and federal courts.
Those who know his work point to the continuity between his clerkship experience and his firm practice. Time on the bench exposed him to questions of procedure, standard of review, and the mechanics of appellate argument. In turn, his firm work has required translating that institutional knowledge into briefs, oral argument prep, and case strategy for private clients and institutional defendants.
He lives and works in a practice that draws on federal and appellate court experience. At Perkins Coie he handles appellate and federal litigation matters as part of the firm's litigation practice.
