Jonathan K. Tycko

In 2002, Jonathan K. Tycko helped found Tycko & Zavareei LLP. Prior to that, Mr. Tycko was with Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP, one of the nation’s top law firms. He received his law degree in 1992 from Columbia University Law School, where he was a Stone Scholar, and earned a B.A. degree, with honors, in 1989 from The Johns Hopkins University.

After graduating from law school, Mr. Tycko served for two years as law clerk to Judge Alexander Harvey, II, of the United States District Court for the District of Maryland.

Mr. Tycko’s practice has focused primarily on civil litigation. He has extensive trial and appellate experience in real estate, housing, employment, False Claims Act, environmental, consumer class action, media, and professional malpractice litigation. Mr. Tycko has represented a wide range of clients, including Fortune 500 companies, privately-held business, non-profit associations, and individuals.

Over the past few years, Mr. Tycko has become widely known as one of the top real estate and housing litigators in the District of Columbia. He has handled a wide range of cases representing condominium associations, condominium unit owners, tenants’ associations, and individual homeowners and tenants, in various types of claims against developers, contractors and landlords.

In addition, Mr. Tycko has handled many pro bono cases in the area of human rights law, including representation of political refugees seeking asylum, and preparation of amicus briefs on behalf of the Lawyers Committee for Human Rights (now known as Human Rights First) and other organizations and individuals in various appellate matters, including matters before the Supreme Court.

For two years, from 2002 through 2004, Mr. Tycko taught as an Adjunct Professor at the George Washington University Law School.

He is admitted to practice before the courts of the District of Columbia, Maryland and New York, as well as before numerous federal courts, including the Supreme Court, the Circuit Courts for the D.C. Circuit, Third Circuit, Fourth Circuit, Ninth Circuit and Federal Circuit, the District Courts for the District of Columbia and District of Maryland, and the Court of Federal Claims.