Prior to joining Keker & Van Nest in the fall of 2011, Mr. Gorman was a law clerk to Hon. Richard A. Posner of the Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit.
During law school, Mr. Gorman interned for the Northern District of Illinois’ U.S. Attorney’s Office. He also worked as a student-attorney with the Federal Criminal Justice Clinic, representing indigent criminal defendants in federal court. In the course of his clinic work Mr. Gorman briefed and successfully obtained a reversal of Seventh Circuit precedent in United States v. Sanchez-Gonzalez (published as United States v. Reyes-Hernandez, 624 F.3d 405 (7th Cir. 2010)).
Before attending law school, Mr. Gorman worked as a baseball writer and consultant specializing in sabermetric analysis. His work appeared on BaseballProspectus.com, in the New York Sun, and in Baseball Prospectus 2006. He later worked for MLB’s outside counsel during Senator George Mitchell’s investigation of performance enhancing drug use in baseball.
Publications
“Fast-Track Sentencing Disparity: Rereading Congressional Intent to Resolve the Circuit Split,” 77 U. Chi. L. Rev. 479 (2010) (cited by United States v. Reyes-Hernandez, 624 F.3d 405, 412 (7th Cir. 2010) and United States v. Jimenez-Perez, 659 F.3d 704, 706 (8th Cir. 2011)
Awards and Honors
University of Chicago Law School
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Kirkland and Ellis Scholar
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Order of the Coif
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Articles editor, The University of Chicago Law Review
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Vice president, Chicago Law Foundation
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Representative, American Constitution Society
Columbia University
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King’s Crown Gold Crown Leadership Award
Cases of Note
United States v. McKesson Corporation: We represent McKesson Corporation and one of its subsidiaries in a False Claims Act case pending in Oxford, Mississippi. Over the government's opposition, we won dismissal of the qui tam relator for lack of jurisdiction, and have moved for summary judgment of the government's principal claims.