Harry Larson

Harry Larson is an experienced litigator on both the trial and appellate levels. He has argued and briefed a winning case in the Tenth Circuit and has drafted dispositive motions and prepared and examined witnesses in state and federal trial courts and arbitration proceedings.

Prior to joining MoloLamken, Mr. Larson served as a law clerk to the Honorable Patricia Ann Millett of the United States Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit and the Honorable Jed S. Rakoff of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York. Before that, he worked as an associate at Quinn, Emanuel, Urquhart & Sullivan and as a law fellow for the American Law Institute.

Prior to law school, Mr. Larson worked as an analyst for Cornerstone Research, where he worked with expert witnesses to prepare testimony on damages and other economic issues.

Admitted only in Illinois; practice supervised by members of the D.C. bar.

Representative Matters

• Individual facing deportation in successful 10th Circuit immigration appeal (Villegas‐Castro v. Garland, 19 F. 4th 1241 (10th Cir. 2021))
• Foreign government in property dispute against former state-owned enterprise in federal district court
• Private equity investor and franchisee group against franchisor in arbitration proceedings
• Physician group and private equity investor in non-compete dispute against investors in former surgery center
• Individual sentenced as a juvenile to life without parole in successful bid for resentencing to a term of years

Publications

• Transitional Justice in a 19th Century Constitution, in CONSTITUTIONALIZING TRANSITIONAL JUSTICE 171 (Cheng-Yi Huang ed., 2022) (with Vicki C. Jackson)
• States’ Commandeered Convictions: Why States Should Get a Veto over Crime‐Based Deportation, Note, 132 Harv. L. Rev. 2322 (2019)
• Leading Case: Oil States Energy Services, LLC v. Greene’s Energy Group, LLC, 138 S. Ct. 1365 (2018), 132 Harv. L. Rev. 307 (2018)
• Recent Case: Lunn v. Commonwealth, 78 N.E.3d 1143 (Mass. 2017), 131 Harv. L. Rev. 66 (2017)