About John F.
John F. Bash studied at Harvard, earning a B.A. before returning to the university for a J.D. at Harvard Law School. His academic record set the stage for a career that moved quickly from clerkships to high-level government work and private practice.
After law school he served as a law clerk to then-Judge Brett Kavanaugh on the D.C. Circuit in 2006. The following year he clerked at the Supreme Court for Justice Antonin Scalia. Those early years provided close exposure to appellate decision-making and the mechanics of federal courts.
He entered private practice as an associate at Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher in 2008. That role involved litigation across several federal forums. In 2017 he took positions inside government, serving as Special Assistant to the President and Associate Counsel to the President at the White House. During the same year he also served as United States Lawyer for the Western District of Texas at the Department of Justice, a post that put him in the courtroom on high-profile federal matters.
Bash returned to private practice and became a partner at Quinn Emanuel in 2020. His resume lists admissions to a broad array of federal courts and appellate panels. He is admitted to practice in Texas (2009) and the District of Columbia (2010), and he is authorized to appear before the Ninth, Tenth, Federal, Fifth, Seventh and Fourth Circuits, the D.C. Circuit, and the U.S. Supreme Court. He is also admitted in the Northern, Eastern, Southern and Western Districts of Texas.
Professional associations have been part of his profile for more than a decade. He holds current memberships in the Texas State Bar and the District of Columbia Bar. He was a member of the Edward Coke Appellate Inn of Court from 2010 through 2017, a period that overlapped with his government service and early years back in private practice.
Colleagues describe his career as one that crosses the public-private line several times, moving between appellate clerkships, government litigation and firm practice. He has substantial courtroom and appellate experience, reflected in the variety of courts before which he is admitted. He continues to work at Quinn Emanuel, where his practice concentrates on appellate and complex federal litigation.
