Jordan Alston is an associate in the Washington D.C. office of Gibson Dunn and is a member of the firm’s Investment Funds Practice Group.
Before joining the firm, Jordan served as a law clerk to Justice Sonia Sotomayor of the Supreme Court of the United States, Judge Sri Srinivasan of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit, and Judge J. Paul Oetken of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York.
Jordan earned his J.D. from Yale Law School, where he was an editor of the Yale Law Journal and was awarded the John Fletcher Caskey Prize for the top performance in the law school’s mock trial competition. He also argued before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, helping secure a partial victory for a pro bono client, as a member of the law school’s Appellate Litigation Project. Prior to law school, Jordan earned his undergraduate degree in government from Harvard College.
Jordan is admitted to practice law in New York and Washington D.C.
Capabilities
Credentials
Education:
- Yale University - 2021 Juris Doctor
- Harvard University - 2017 Bachelor of Arts
Admissions:
- District of Columbia Bar
- New York Bar
Clerkships:
- US Supreme Court, Hon. Justice Sonia Sotomayor, 2024 - 2025
- US Court of Appeals, DC Circuit, Hon. Sri Srinivasan, 2022 - 2023
- USDC, Southern District of New York, Hon. J. Paul Oetken, 2021 - 2022