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Zachary N. Ferguson
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- Associate
- Washington, DC
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Zachary N. Ferguson works on litigation matters, including complex commercial and bankruptcy disputes and appeals. Zach’s work involves all phases of these cases and includes drafting motions, briefs and other filings; managing discovery; preparing for witness depositions and testimony; and serving as a member of trial teams.
Prior to law school, Zach taught middle school math and science in Detroit, Michigan, through Teach for America.
Experience
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Represented, as a member of the litigation team, a bank and its senior officers in a suit seeking more than $500 million in damages arising from a canceled wire transfer from the State of California to an entity that had claimed it could supply California with 100 million N95 respirator masks, obtaining the dismissal of some of the counts early in the case and then securing summary judgment on the remaining claims.
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Defended a social media company and its majority shareholder in a suit alleging breach of a bond indenture, obtaining dismissal of the complaint and denial of plaintiffs’ motion to amend.
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Represented law professors in the filing of an amicus brief in the U.S. Supreme Court in support of religious objectors to the Affordable Care Act mandate on the non-merits issue of universal injunctive relief.
Credentials
Education
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J.D., magna cum laude, Duke University School of Law, 2018 - Senior Articles Editor, Duke Law Journal
- Winner, 2018 Dean’s Cup Intramural Moot Court Competition
- 2018 Governing Faculty Award for Advocacy
- 2018 Justin Miller Award
- Mordecai Scholar
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B.A., cum laude, Political Science, Williams College, 2013 - Shirin Shakir Memorial Prize
Bar Admissions
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District of Columbia, 2020
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New York, 2019
Clerkships
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Honorable Gerald Bard Tjoflat, U.S.C.A., 11th Circuit
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