About Jeffrey Louis
Jeffrey Louis Fisher built a career that crosses courtroom benches, federal hallways and law school classrooms. He combines a string of federal clerkships with decades in private practice and periodic teaching appointments. The result is a resume that reads like a map of appellate work in the United States.
Fisher took his undergraduate degree at Duke University, graduating in 1992. He earned his J.D. from the University of Michigan Law School in 1997, where he was inducted into the Order of the Coif. The Michigan degree set the stage for a pair of federal clerkships that steered him toward appellate litigation.
He clerked for Judge Stephen Reinhardt on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit in Los Angeles in 1997. The following year he served on the chambers of Justice John Paul Stevens at the Supreme Court of the United States. Those two years placed him at the center of complex legal arguments and appellate strategy early in his career.
After his clerkships Fisher entered private practice. He joined Davis Wright Tremaine in 1999 and rose through work on appellate and trial-related matters. He later served as Special Counsel at OMelveny & Myers LLP beginning in 2018. Along the way he has represented clients in filings, oral argument preparation and amicus work, drawing on his early courtroom experience.
He has also kept a hand in legal education. Fisher served as a part-time lecturer at the University of Washington School of Law in 2001, teaching students while maintaining an active practice. He remains involved in professional organizations. At the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers he serves as co-chair of both the Amicus Committee and the Oral Arguments Committee. He also maintains an affiliation with the University of Michigan Law School through the Order of the Coif.
Licensed in both the District of Columbia and California, Fisher’s career follows a steady appellate arc. He has moved between high courts and law firms, between teaching and trial preparation. He concentrates on appellate litigation and criminal defense matters in his current practice.
