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Gordon B. Nash, Jr. focuses his practice on trial and appellate work. As an active trial lawyer, he has extensive experience in federal and state courts.  He started his legal career as a Captain in the United States Army assigned to the Staff Judge Advocate of the 101st Airborne Division in Vietnam.  After the Army, Gordon served in the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Chicago, where he became the chief of the Special Prosecutions Division.  He joined the firm in 1978 as a partner and concentrated his practice in the areas of white collar criminal defense, securities, antitrust and commercial litigation.  Gordon is also often called upon to conduct internal investigations for corporate clients.  He has previously served as the litigation department chair and a member of the management committee.

Gordon serves as an arbitrator and mediator.  As an arbitrator he has heard cases administered by the American Arbitration Association and JAMS Endispute.  He has also taught trial advocacy at John Marshall Law School and lectured and written for the Illinois Institute of Continuing Legal Education.

Gordon has served as president of the Chicago Bar Association, president of the Chicago Inn of Court, chair of the Constitutional Rights Foundation, chair of the Illinois Supreme Court Committee on Professionalism, vice chair of the Civil Justice Reform Act Advisory Groups of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois and on many other civic and charitable boards and committees.

Gordon has received many awards and acknowledgements, including admission to the American College of Trial Lawyers, recognition by the alumni association of Loyola University School of Law for his extraordinary service to the profession of law, and the John Marshall Award presented to him by the U.S. Attorney General for outstanding legal achievement.  Gordon was selected as one of the Leading Lawyers in Illinois in Commercial Litigation and named one of the Best Lawyers in America® for his litigation practice.