04/18/2024
Meet our networking and events co chair, Julian Pecora!
Julian is an attorney at Dinsmore & Shohl LLP. He has experience in litigation. Julian is familiar with taking depositions and attending hearings as well. He received his J.D. from West Virginia University College of Law. Participation as counsel of record in a reported opinion of the Supreme Court of Appeals of West Virginia (State ex rel. Hope Clinic, PLLC v. McGraw, 245 W. Va. 171, 174, 858 S.E.2d 221, 224 (2021).
While in law school, he studied abroad in Geneva, Switzerland. He was a federal summer law clerk for The Honorable Michael J. Aloi for the Northern District of West Virginia and a Rule 10 attorney for the United States Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of West Virginia. He was a member of the United States Supreme Court Clinic where he was one the authors of a successful brief submitted to the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit, and the designated presenter had oral argument been requested. Julian graduated from the WVU College of Law in 2020. He graduated in the top 12 percent of his law school class and was the best student in six of his classes. Each year he was awarded for having outstanding leadership and character.
Julian founded Counsel Connections, a group dedicated to retaining young professional talent in West Virginia. Other community involvement activities for Julian include being a volunteer fundraising Ambassador for United Way of the River Cities. Julian is an alumnus of two prestigious national programs: The United States Senate Youth Program and American Legion Boys Nation, where he met with President Obama twice in the white house and was featured on CSPAN. While in college, Julian addressed the West Virginia House of Delegates during the session while he interned for the state legislature. In 2023, Julian was selected to represent the United States in Germany, E.U., and NATO as a young professional leader in the United States for the Atlantik-Brucke New Bridge Program Fellowship. Julian is only the second West Virginian ever to be selected. Julian is on the Young Lawyers Section Board for the West Virginia State Bar.
