Gerard D’Emilio is an associate at GableGotwals, where his practice focuses on a wide range of litigation matters. Before joining Gable as an attorney, Gerard served as a judicial law clerk for the Honorable Jerome Holmes, United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit, and the Honorable David L. Russell, United States District Court for the Western District of Oklahoma. Gerard also served as a judicial extern for the Honorable Robert E. Bacharach, United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit. Gerard began his career with Gable as a summer associate.
Gerard graduated first in his class from the University of Oklahoma College of Law, having held that rank every semester. At OU Law, he served as an Articles Editor on the Oklahoma Law Review, a member of the National Moot Court team, a Dean’s Leadership Fellow, and President of OU Law’s chapter of the Federal Bar Association. Gerard earned numerous honors during law school, including induction into the Order of the Coif and the National Order of Scribes, the Nathan Scarritt Prize, the S.T. Bledsoe Memorial Prize, the James F. Hawes Memorial Cup, and sixteen American Jurisprudence Awards for the highest course grade. He was named a 2017 Holloway Scholar by Oklahoma City’s chapter of the Federal Bar Association.
Prior to law school, Gerard enjoyed a career as a professional opera singer.
Publications
- Gerard M. D’Emilio, Frontier Feudalism: Agrarian Populism Meets Future Interest Arcana in the Land of Manifest Destiny, 70 Okla. L. Rev. 943 (2018).
- Ronald Kahn and Gerard M. D’Emilio, The Jurisprudence of Justice Scalia: Common-Law Judging Behind an Originalist Façade, in THE CONSERVATIVE REVOLUTION OF ANTONIN SCALIA (David Schultz & Howard Schweber eds.) (2018).