Jonah E. Perlin teaches legal practice and advanced legal writing at Georgetown Law. Before coming to the Law Center in 2018, Professor Perlin started his law career as a judicial law clerk to Chief Judge Robert A. Katzmann of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit and Judge Ellen Segal Huvelle of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia. He then worked as a litigator for several years at Williams & Connolly LLP in Washington, D.C. where he specialized in complex civil litigation in the United States and abroad. While at Williams & Connolly he also taught advanced legal writing at the Law Center as an Adjunct Professor.

Professor Perlin’s scholarship focuses on legal ethics, legal communication, the technology of law, and professional identity formation. His work has been published or is forthcoming in the peer-reviewed journal Legal Communication & Rhetoric and the Yale Journal of Law & Technology. In addition to his scholarship, Professor Perlin is the creator and host of the How I Lawyer Podcast where he interviews lawyers from across the profession about what they do, why they do it, and how they do it well. The more than 100 interviews of How I Lawyer have already been downloaded more than 175,000 times. The podcast is listened to by law students and lawyers across the country and has been used in the classroom at a number of law schools.

Professor Perlin received his J.D., magna cum laude, from the Law Center in 2012, where he was an Articles Editor for the Georgetown Law Journal and a law fellow in the Legal Research and Writing Program. He received his A.B., magna cum laude, from Princeton University and his A.M. in Religious Studies from the University of Chicago Divinity School.