Javier Kordi

JAVIER KORDI focuses his practice on commercial and civil litigation and appeals in state and federal courts across the United States. Javier has represented clients facing complex contract disputes, antitrust and tort liability, insurance coverage issues, and threats to intellectual property. He also provides pre-litigation advice and strategy to resolve disputes without resorting to judicial process.

Javier has experience writing winning motions and briefs, conducting fact development and discovery, and driving case strategy and day-to-day management. He also maintains a robust pro bono practice, having helped clients with landlord-tenant issues, employment non-competes, criminal record expungement, and immigration matters.

Before joining the firm, Javier practiced law in a top-ranked California-based firm. He also clerked for Judge Diane P. Wood on the U.S. Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals in Chicago and Judge Susan Y. Illston of the Northern District of California in San Francisco.

Javier graduated with honors from the University of Chicago Law School, where he served as comments editor on the Law Review. In recognition of his writing and academic success during this time, Javier was awarded the Donald M. Ephraim Prize in Law and Economics, the Casper Platt Award for best paper in his graduating class, the Herbert L. Caplan Prize for Creative Legal Thinking, and the Joseph H. Beale Prize.