Zachary Fardon

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Zach Fardon leads the firm’s Government Matters practice group, serves on the firm’s Policy Committee, and is Managing Partner of the firm’s Chicago office. As part of the Special Matters & Government Investigations team, Zach represents companies and individuals nationwide in a broad array of sensitive white-collar defense and investigations matters.

Zach has built a reputation as a careful, discreet problem solver and an elite trial lawyer. A former United States Attorney, he has extensive experience on both sides of the table in bet-the-company civil and criminal trials and government and internal investigations. Zach is a Fellow of the American College of Trial Lawyers.

Mr. Fardon is a committed advocate for the greater Chicago community and, in particular, for finding long-term solutions to Chicago’s gun violence epidemic. He has served on the not-for-profit Boards of Directors of A Better Chicago, Metropolitan Family Services of Chicago, and the Legal Aid Society of Chicago, which he Chaired. Zach is an Adjunct Professor at Northwestern’s Pritzker School of Law, where he teaches a seminar on Chicago’s gun violence epidemic, and he currently serves on the Board of Youth Guidance and the Board of Advisors of Vanderbilt Law School.