Jonathan (“Jack”) Ross Harrington is an associate in Wilmer, Cutler, Pickering, Hale & Dorr’s Washington D.C. litigation department and a member of the firm’s national security and international litigation practice groups.  After graduating from the Yale Law School, where he served as Editor-in-Chief of the Yale Journal of International Law and co-Chair of the ACS National Security Committee, Jack interned in President Obama’s Office of the White House Counsel.  He also served as a legal fellow on the Senate Homeland Security Committee where he focused on domestic radicalization and legal challenges in the struggle against violent extremism.

Before his legal career, Jack worked in the national security community as a counterterrorism and foreign policy analyst specializing in Southeast Asia and the wider Global Salafi Jihad.  He spent three years as research coordinator at the Center for the Study of Terrorism and Political Violence, leading a seventy-person student research initiative.  After graduate school, Jack supported U.S. Government counterterrorism programs as a senior analyst in SAIC’s (formerly AMTI) Intelligence and Terrorism Analysis Group and a senior advisor to the Thistle Intelligence Group.  Jack has traveled extensively throughout Southeast Asia and published on insurgency and terrorism in the region.

In addition to his Juris Doctorate, Jack holds a Master’s Degree in International Security Studies from Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service and a Bachelor’ s Degree in International Relations from the University of St. Andrews in Scotland.  He is a member of the New York Bar, the American Bar Association, and the American Society of International Law.  Jack hails from Long Island, New York.