Julia Rickert
Partner
- 312-243-5900
- julia@loevy.com
Biography
Julia Rickert is a partner at Loevy & Loevy. She joined the firm in March 2017 as the Whistleblower Litigation Fellow, and she continues to represent whistleblowers in cases brought under the federal False Claims Act and state and local analogues. In addition, she represents wrongfully convicted individuals and others whose constitutional rights have been violated.
Julia graduated from Northwestern University School of Law, cum laude, in 2010. After law school, she was a fellow in the MacArthur Justice Center. She then served as a staff attorney for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit, after which she served as law clerk to the Honorable David F. Hamilton of the Seventh Circuit and law clerk to the Honorable John Z. Lee of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois.
Julia has published on constitutional law, sex discrimination, and criminal law. Her article with Steven Calabresi, Originalism and Sex Discrimination, is published in the University of Texas Law Review.
Education + Honors
Northwestern University School of Law, Chicago, Illinois
• J.D. (cum laude) – May, 2010
• Senior Research Honors
• Public Service Honor Roll
• Dean’s list
The University of Illinois at Chicago
• B.A. – December, 2006
• English Literature, Russian Literature (minor)
Clerkships & Past Employment
• Law Clerk, Hon. David Hamilton, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
• Law Clerk, Hon. John Z. Lee, U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois
• Law Clerk, Staff Attorney’s Office, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
• Fellow, Roderick and Solange MacArthur Justice Center, Northwestern University School of Law
Publications
• Originalism and Sex Discrimination (with Steven Calabresi), University of Texas Law Review, Vol. 90, 2011
• Forward, Centennial Symposium: One Hundred Years of Criminal Justice, Journal of Criminal Law & Criminology, Vol. 100 J., 2010
• Denying Defendants the Benefit of a Reasonable Doubt: Federal Rule of Evidence 609 and Past Sex Crime Convictions, Journal of Criminal Law & Criminology, Vol. 100 J., 2010
• A Little Secret About The Secret, The Chicago Reader, June 1, 2007 (cover story)
Our Impact
Loevy + Loevy has won more multi-million dollar verdicts than perhaps any other law firm in the country over the past decade. Our willingness to take hard cases to trial, and win them, has yielded a nationally recognized reputation for success in the courtroom.
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We take on the nation’s most difficult public interest cases, advocating in and outside the courtroom to secure justice for our clients and to hold officials, governments, and corporations accountable.
