Johan Conrod - The Cicala Law Firm PLLC

Johan has been practicing law for more than twenty years. His extensive experience includes ten years as an equity partner with one of Virginia's largest firms, where he practiced extensively in state and federal courts throughout the Commonwealth and beyond, including the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia’s rocket docket.

Johan has tried dozes of cases in state and federal courts representing municipalities, individuals and businesses, and argued before numerous federal and state appellate courts. His jury trial experience includes disputes involving NFL player agents, cardiology partners, film production companies, financial advisory firm owners, real estate developers and energy industry brokerage firms.

Johan has been recognized repeatedly by Best Lawyers™ (litigation – antitrust: 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023 and 2024), and he was profiled by Virginia Business magazine in its December 2018 issue as one of Virginia's leading appellate lawyers. He is a past chapter president for the Federal Bar Association and served on the editorial board of The Federal Lawyer, the national magazine of the FBA. He is the co-author of the chapter "Appeals to the United States Court of Appeals" in the treatise Appellate Practice - Virginia and Federal Courts (Virginia CLE 2016). Johan also spent a number of years on the faculty of the professionalism committee of the Virginia State Bar, speaking and teaching at the VSB's mandatory professionalism seminar for new admittees, as well as the VSB's companion course presented at law schools.

Johan’s work with CLF includes both representing municipalities that are engaged in active litigation concerning the opioid epidemic and states in MDL litigation involving insulin pricing. These cases have involved a number of defendants in the pharmaceutical industry, such as drug manufacturers, distributors, pharmacies (national chain and mail-order), and pharmacy benefit managers (PBMs).

While in law school at the University of Virginia School of Law, Johan served on both the editorial and managing boards of the Virginia Law Review. Upon graduating from Virginia Law, Johan clerked with the Hon. B. Waugh Crigler in the United States District Court for the Western District of Virginia, Charlottesville Division, before entering private practice full time.

Education:

University of Virginia School of Law, J.D., 2001

Liberty University, B.A., 1994

Admissions:

Virginia State Bar

Kansas State Bar

United States District Courts for the Eastern and Western Districts of Virginia

United States District Court for the Eastern District of Arkansas

United States District Court for Kansas

United States District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri

United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit

United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit

Supreme Court of the United States

Publications:

"Appeals to the United States Court of Appeals," Appellate Practice - Virginia and Federal Courts (Virginia CLE 2016)

For Hands-On Experience in Federal Court, Young Lawyers Should Do Pro Bono Work, The Federal Lawyer (March 2012)

The Young Lawyer's Dilemma, The Federal Lawyer (July 2009)

The Young Lawyer’s Dilemma Part 2: Gaining Perspective, The Federal Lawyer (May 2010)

Venue in Virginia: Putting the “Where” in Wherefore, VBA Journal, Winter 2003

Insurance Coverage for Claims of Violations of the Telephone Consumer Protection Act (47 U.S.C.A § 227), 3 A.L.R. 6th 625

“Linking Public Websites to the Public Forum,” 87 Virginia Law Review 1007, Sept. 2001