About Julia
Julia Ambrose is a partner at Brooks, Pierce, McLendon, Humphrey & Leonard, LLP, in Raleigh, North Carolina. She joined the firm in 2007 and became a partner in 2009. The firm, located at 150 Fayetteville Street, Suite 1700, Wells Fargo Capitol Center, handles a range of legal services, including transactional and regulatory counsel for media companies, as well as commercial and constitutional litigation across state and federal courts. She earned her J.D. from Vanderbilt University Law School in 1994, where she graduated Order of the Coif. Her undergraduate degree, a B.A.
in English Literature, was obtained from Rhodes College in 1990, where she was inducted into Phi Beta Kappa. During law school, she clerked for Judge J. Harvie Wilkinson III of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit from 1994 to 1995. Following that, she served as a law clerk to Associate Justice Sandra Day O'Connor at the U.S. Supreme Court from 1995 to 1996.
Most of her practice focuses on broadcast television regulation and litigation. She drafts and negotiates agreements between broadcasters and content providers, such as streaming, affiliation, digital broadcasting, and syndication agreements. She also represents media clients in proceedings before the Federal Communications Commission and provides advocacy on issues like federal indecency standards and television stations' rights under the Copyright Act. Before joining Brooks Pierce, she worked as an associate at a law firm in 2003 and 1996. She also clerked for Judge J — Harvie Wilkinson III in 1994 and for Associate Justice Sandra Day O'Connor in 1995. She has been a member of the District of Columbia Bar, Virginia State Bar, and North Carolina State Bar.
She has been recognized by her peers for inclusion in Business North Carolina’s "Legal Elite" in Appellate Law (2021-2022) and selected for inclusion in The Best Lawyers in America© for Appellate Practice (2019-2026), Commercial Litigation (2020-2026). Litigation - Regulatory Enforcement (SEC, Telecom, Energy) (2021-2026). She served as Vice-Chair of the Appellate Practice Section of the North Carolina Bar Association from 2014 to 2015 and as Chair-elect from 2015 to 2016. She is also a member of the Constitutional Rights and Responsibilities Section of the North Carolina Bar Association. She speaks English and has a working knowledge of French.
