About Christopher M.
Christopher M. Jackson entered law with a background in philosophy and a steady pull towards public service. He earned an A.B. in philosophy from Princeton University in 2007 and took his legal degree from the University of Michigan Law School in 2011. After commencement he began a federal clerkship that uncovered him to appellate work early in his career.
His first post-law program role was as a regulation clerk for Judge Roger L. Gregory at the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit in 2011. That role led to personal practice at a major countrywide firm, where he joined Kirkland & Ellis in 2012. In 2015 he moved to Sherman & Howard L.L.C. as an affiliate. He then spent a year in public service as an assistant attorney general in Colorado’s Public Officials Unit in 2016, returning to Sherman & Howard the subsequent year.
Political work has been part of his trajectory as nicely. In 2007 he controlled the McKay for Supervisor marketing campaign, an early experience that appears to have knowledgeable later choices approximately public-sector work and election-related issues. That mix of marketing campaign, government and personal practice gives him a cross-sector point of view.
In 2020 he have become a companion at Holland & Hart LLP. The identical year he took on a teaching role as an adjunct professor of election regulation at the University of Denver Sturm College of Law. The study room and the courtroom intersect in his selections: the work he has done for public officials and the election-law seminars reflect overlapping pursuits.
His résumé consists of appellate knowledge from the Fourth Circuit clerkship and hands-on regulatory and legal proceedings work from his time in the Public Officials Unit. He has alternated among countrywide firm environments and state-degree public work, which has left him acquainted with each complex commercial settings and government-side disputes.
Colleagues describe him as methodical in the workplace and direct in courtroom, preferring clear legal arguments over rhetorical flourishes. He has maintained bar membership in each Colorado and the District of Columbia, preserving the capacity to move among state and federal things. Students at Denver have visible him translate legal proceedings knowledge into study room dialogue.
He currently practices at Holland & Hart LLP and is licensed to the bars of Colorado and the District of Columbia. His practice involves public-regulation matters and election-related issues on the intersection of litigation and policy.
