John J Buckley Jr Williams & Connolly

John J Buckley, Jr, Senior Counsel with Williams & Connolly LLP, is the founder and co-head of the firm's international arbitration practice group. A Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators, he serves as arbitrator (co-arbitrator and chair) as well as counsel. John has extensive experience as lead trial counsel in civil cases and arbitral proceedings and was elected a Fellow of the American College of Trial Lawyers.

John's complex civil litigation and arbitration practice collectively includes claims involving energy, oil & gas, LNG, refining, gas gathering, electric generation, patents (including standard-essential patents, SEPs, and royalty rates under FRAND), patent licensing, civil engineering, construction, commodities trading, mortgage-backed securities, stock options and buy backs, collateralized debt obligations, secured transactions, SWAPS and derivatives, share purchase agreements, hedge funds, medical technology, telecommunications, smart phone technology, foreign investment, and insurance.

Since 2015 John has been Visiting Clinical Lecturer at Yale Law School, where he teaches advocacy in international arbitration. He has consistently been listed as among the top US commercial arbitration practitioners in Euromoney's Guide to the World's Leading Experts in Commercial Arbitration. His arbitrations have involved proceedings under AAA, JAMS, CPR, ICDR, ICC, and HKIAC rules and ad hoc arbitrations.

John is listed on numerous arbitrator rosters, including CPR International Institute for Conflict Prevention & Resolution's Panel of Distinguished Neutrals, its General Commercial Panel of arbitrators for Washington, DC, its International/Cross Border Panel of arbitrators, and its Energy, Oil and Gas Panel of arbitrators. He is also listed on the panel of arbitrators of the International Centre for Dispute Resolution (ICDR) – International Panel of Arbitrators; International Arbitration Institute of Paris (IAI); the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (FCIArb); and The Roster of International Arbitrators, Juris, Second Edition.

John is a member of the Arbitration Committee of the CPR International Institute for Conflict Prevention & Resolution, the Advisory Board of the Institute for Transnational Arbitration, the International Arbitration Institute, the International Bar Association's Arbitration Committee, and the London Court of International Arbitration's North American Users' Council. He is co-chair of CPR's Administered Rules Revision Committee.

John earned his A.B., magna cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa, from Georgetown University and his J.D., with honors, from The University of Chicago, where he was Editor-in-Chief of The University of Chicago Law Review and elected to the Order of the Coif. After law school, he clerked both for Judge John Minor Wisdom of the US Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit and for Associate US Supreme Court Justice Lewis F. Powell, Jr. John later joined the US Department of Justice where he served as special assistant to US Attorney General Edward H. Levi before joining Williams & Connolly, where he was a partner from 1981 to 2018. He is a member of the bars of the District of Columbia and New York and many federal courts, including the Supreme Court of the United States.