Jude Volek advises a wide range of clients on highly sensitive internal investigations, government enforcement actions, regulatory matters, and litigation.
Jude, a former senior White House counsel and senior DOJ official, draws on extensive government experience to tactfully advise companies, universities, and other organizations on crisis management and a range of intricate issues, related to:
Before joining Latham, Jude served as special assistant and senior associate counsel to President Biden in the Office of the White House Counsel. In this role, he advised senior administration officials on a wide range of legal issues, including developing and implementing executive orders, presidential memoranda, agency actions, and other initiatives to ensure compliance with the Constitution and federal law.
Jude also previously served as deputy chief of the Special Litigation Section of the US Department of Justice’s Civil Rights Division, where he led all stages of complex investigations and civil litigation, most notably in US v. Ferguson, Missouri and US v. New Orleans. His work garnered him the DOJ’s highest award — the Attorney General’s Exceptional Service Award — and the Attorney General’s John Marshall Award for Excellence in Litigation.
At Latham, Jude also draws from his extensive government experience in representing a range of pro bono clients, including non-profit organizations and other advocacy groups in matters related to equity initiatives, grantmaking, and criminal justice.
After law school, Jude clerked for Judge Janet C. Hall of the US District Court for the District of Connecticut and Judge Sandra Lynch of the US Court of Appeals for the First Circuit.
Jude’s matters include representing: