About Aaron Lloyd
Aaron Lloyd Nielson built a law career that moves between the academy, appellate benches and a prime company. He started his academic journey at the University of Pennsylvania, the place he earned a B.A. in economics in 1998. He returned to study law at Harvard Law School and received his J.D. in 2003. Two years later he finished a LL.M. on the University of Cambridge.
Early in his legal lifestyles he took normal steps for an appellate lawyer. He served as a law clerk on the U.S. Courts of Appeals, including stints in both the Fifth Circuit and the D.C. Circuit in 2007. Those clerkships were followed by a term clerking for Justice Samuel Alito at the United States highest court in 2014. The hands-on work in chambers and at the bench gave him a steady exposure to complicated federal appeals and constitutional questions.
He has spent significant time in personal practice. Records show roles at Kirkland & Ellis beginning in 2009, where he labored as an associate, partner and later as of counsel. In 2015 he's listed once more as a senior advisor at Kirkland & Ellis LLP. His time in a large company setting placed him on groups dealing with excessive-stakes appellate and regulatory things.
Academic life has been a parallel monitor. He joined the school of the J. Reuben Clark Law School in 2013. As a regulation professor he has taught courses that draw on his appellate and federal knowledge. Teaching has kept him engaged in doctrinal debates and classroom dialogue, and has tied his practical information back into legal education.
Nielson is licensed to practice within the District of Columbia and in Utah. He appears at the rolls of the District of Columbia Bar starting in 2010 and the Utah State Bar beginning in 2016. Those memberships mark the jurisdictions where he has been credentialed to handle client matters and courtroom hearings.
His profession threads—clerkships, company practice and law coaching—provide an image of an attorney who moves comfortably among scholarship and court process. He has mixed appellate work and federal experience with time in private practice and the classroom. Currently, he teaches at the J. Reuben Clark Law School and continues to practice in jurisdictions where he's licensed, focusing on appellate and federal matters in his present work.
