Galveston County Bar Association

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Young Lawyers President-Elect

Josh Jilovec

Josh Jilovec is President-Elect of the Young Lawyers of the Galveston County Bar Association. He is a litigation associate in the Houston office of O'Melveny, where his work runs from counseling before a case is filed through trials in state and federal court.

He clerked for United States District Judge Jeffrey V. Brown of the Southern District of Texas and interned for United States Circuit Judge Catharina Haynes of the Fifth Circuit. He also clerked for the head of the criminal appellate section of the Travis County Attorney's Office. Before O'Melveny, he practiced litigation in the Dallas office of another international law firm.

He earned a bachelor of science in economics and political science from George Washington University and a law degree with honors from the University of Texas at Austin. In law school he was a staff editor of The Review of Litigation and served on the editorial board of the Texas Review of Law and Politics as its online content editor. He is admitted in Texas and in the United States District Courts for the Northern and Southern Districts of Texas.

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