Justin Kingsolver (he/him) is a partner in Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner LLP’s Litigation and Investigations and Antitrust and Competition Practice Groups. His practice focuses on complex, high-stakes commercial and class action litigation, with particular depth in antitrust and healthcare matters. He has represented many of the country’s most recognized companies and achieved highly favorable results in business-critical disputes before federal and state courts and arbitration panels nationwide. He brings a unique perspective as a recovery-oriented litigator whose practice spans both sides of the “v.”

He has served as Vice Chair of Lambda Legal’s National Leadership Council, and he maintains an active pro bono practice, with longstanding involvement in matters relating to LGBT civil rights, as well as voting rights litigation, asylum, and criminal justice matters. His recent work includes a leadership role in GLMA, et al. v. National Institutes of Health, where he helped lead a team that restored hundreds of millions in LGBTQ+-focused health research grants, and a key role in litigation challenging Iowa’s “Don’t Say Gay” and “Book Ban” omnibus bill, where the Eighth Circuit adopted arguments that he advanced in an amicus brief submitted on behalf of leading First Amendment scholars regarding the government speech doctrine in the public education context. Justin has also secured asylum for LGBTQ+ asylum-seekers from Senegal, Russia, and Venezuela.

Before entering private practice, Justin worked in national politics and the Antitrust Division of the U.S. Department of Justice. He earned his J.D. from the University of Michigan Law School, where he chaired the LGBTQ affinity group and was a national antitrust moot court finalist, and his undergraduate degrees from Indiana University, where he was Student Body President and actively engaged in state and federal politics. Before joining BCLP, Justin spent a decade in the Washington, D.C. office of Crowell & Moring LLP.