Jessica Morton is Senior Counsel at Democracy Forward. She was previously a litigation associate at Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP, where she focused on complex commercial disputes and antitrust litigation, and maintained an active pro bono practice representing indigent criminal defendants in both district and appellate courts. Before joining Paul, Weiss, Jessica clerked for Judge John D. Bates on the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia and Judge Albert Diaz on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit.