Jonathan Franklin is a litigation partner in the Washington, D.C. location of Fulbright & Jaworski L.L.P., and head of the firm's Supreme Court and Appellate practice. Jonathan has argued six cases before the U.S. Supreme Court, has served as counsel on the merits in fourteen cases argued before the Court, and has represented parties and amici curiae in numerous other cases at the certiorari and merits stages. 

Jonathan has also argued numerous cases in federal Circuit Courts throughout the country, and has significant experience in administrative and trial level proceedings. His cases have involved a wide range of issues, including constitutional law, administrative law and procedure, foreign sovereign immunity, and intellectual property, contract, tort, civil rights, insurance, antitrust, labor, telecommunications and international law. He has extensive experience litigating patent and other intellectual property appeals before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit and the Supreme Court. In 2006, he joined Fulbright from Hogan & Hartson L.L.P., where he had been a partner.

• Successfully briefed and argued a case on behalf of a foreign government in which the Supreme Court unanimously reversed the D.C. Circuit and held that the client was entitled to sovereign immunity against a category of claims seeking billions of dollars in damages
• Successfully briefed and argued a case in which the Supreme Court unanimously invalidated a Missouri law that would have imposed negative ballot labels on candidates for Congress who did not vote for a particular federal constitutional amendment or pledge to do so
• Successfully sought certiorari and represented state government party in a major environmental case before the Supreme Court, in which the Court reversed a decision that had invalidated permits needed for an important mining project.
• Argued an en banc appeal before the Ninth Circuit, in which the court invalidated the authority of the Immigration and Naturalization Service to strip naturalized citizens of their citizenship through an administrative process
• Successfully represented major insurance company in appeals on coverage issues in both federal and state courts
• Represented a technology company in a successful appeal before the Federal Circuit in a major patent case
• Successfully represented airlines in administrative proceedings and before the D.C. Circuit in a dispute over the proper fees to be charged for the use of the Nation’s airports
• Successfully represented two foreign governments in cases brought under the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act
• Litigated two copyright cases before the Supreme Court, in which the Court ruled unanimously in favor of the firm’s clients

• Edward Coke American Appellate Inn of Court, Barrister Member
• International Association of Defense Counsel

• Chambers USA, Litigation: Appellate (2006 - 2010)
• “Washington, D.C. Super Lawyer,” Appellate, Law & Politics (2007 - 2009)

• “Representing Foreign Sovereigns:  The Intersection of Law, Policy and Diplomacy,” Global Law Scholars Seminar, Georgetown University Law Center, October, 2009
• “Pre-emption and the Roberts Court,” Federal Bar Council, Bench & Bar Retreat, October 2008.
• “LabCorp v. Metabolite: Litigating a Case in the U.S. Supreme Court,” Edward D. Manzo Scholar in Patent Law Lecture, Depaul University College of Law, February 2007.
• “The 2006 U.S Supreme Court Term,” Washington Legal Foundation Media Briefings, September, 2006.
• “Appellate Advocacy,” Federal Circuit Bar Association, Bench & Bar Conference, July 2006.

1990 -  J.D., Yale Law School
1986 - A.B., Harvard College

Jonathan served as a law clerk for the Hon. Anthony J. Scirica of the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit. He is admitted before the U.S. Supreme Court; the U.S. Courts of Appeal for the District of Columbia, First, Second, Third, Fourth, Fifth, Sixth, Seventh, Eighth, Ninth, Tenth and Federal Circuits; and the U.S. District Courts for the District of Columbia and Eastern District of Texas.