R. Stanton Jones
About R. Stanton Jones
Stanton Jones co-chairs TL4J’s Nationwide Appellate & Supreme Court Practice. He is a nationally recognized appellate advocate and accomplished trial lawyer who represents clients in high-stakes constitutional, civil rights, antitrust, technology, and complex commercial disputes in trial and appellate courts nationwide.
Stanton has been recognized by The American Lawyer as a Trailblazer, by Law360 as an Appellate Rising Star, by The National Law Journal as both a Rising Star and Litigation Trailblazer, and by The Legal 500 in appellate litigation.
He has led and won major appeals in federal courts of appeals and state appellate courts across the country. He has also designed litigation strategy in some of the nation’s most significant constitutional, commercial, and public policy disputes, including landmark voting rights and redistricting litigation, major antitrust and commercial matters, constitutional and civil rights cases, and complex trial and appellate proceedings involving substantial financial and institutional stakes.
In addition to his appellate work, Stanton brings significant trial experience. Since 2019, he has participated in thirteen trials in federal and state courts, including multiple first-chair roles. His practice focuses on integrating appellate and trial strategy from the earliest stages of litigation, including dispositive motions, issue preservation, jury instructions, post-trial proceedings, and verdict defense.
Among his most impactful representations, Stanton represented parents and children separated under the federal government’s 2018 family separation policy in Federal Tort Claims Act litigation, helping secure substantial recoveries for affected families.
He has also prevailed in major constitutional and civil rights cases, including a landmark Second Circuit decision recognizing First Amendment protections against retaliatory deportation and landmark state constitutional victories invalidating partisan gerrymanders and protecting voting rights.
Before joining TL4J, Stanton was a Partner in Arnold & Porter’s Supreme Court & Appellate practice. He previously served as an Adjunct Professor of Appellate Advocacy at Georgetown University Law Center, where he taught Supreme Court brief writing and oral advocacy.
Stanton earned his J.D., magna cum laude and Order of the Coif, from Georgetown University Law Center. He also holds a master’s degree in teaching from Johns Hopkins University and a bachelor’s degree in economics and philosophy from the University of Michigan.
Proven verdicts and settlements at Trial Lawyers for Justice
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Carrie DeJongh, 40, of Hull, Iowa, died on June 9, 2015 after receiving iodinated contrast dye for a CT scan at Sioux Center Health, when the physician treating her gave her an antihistamine but did not immediately check her vital signs or give epinephrine. Her family sued Sioux Center Health and Dr. Roy T. Slice for negligence, and both defendants denied the allegations. A Sioux County jury in Orange City returned a $29.5 million verdict on June 13, 2018, covering DeJongh's pain and suffering before her death and loss of consortium for her husband and four children. No appeal, remittitur or reduction has turned up since.
In February 2017, a physician assistant at a UnityPoint urgent care clinic in Des Moines diagnosed Joseph Dudley with the flu despite a negative flu test, sent him home on Tamiflu, and never ordered a complete blood count. Two days later Dudley was hospitalized with bacterial meningitis caused by an undetected heart valve infection, spent eight days in a medically induced coma, and suffered a series of strokes that left him with permanent brain damage, hearing loss, vertigo and nerve damage. A Polk County jury tried the malpractice claim against physician assistant Melanie Choos and Central Iowa Hospital Corp, doing business as UnityPoint Clinic, over a week in November 2022 and returned a $27,000,000 verdict, all of it noneconomic damages. The defense moved for a new trial afterward and UnityPoint said it was weighing an appeal.
Richard J. Pellock, 80, had surgery to remove bladder cancer at UnityPoint Health Finley Hospital in Dubuque, Iowa in January 2015, and the operation succeeded. Days later he needed a second procedure for a post-surgical complication, and the nurse anesthetist handling that procedure induced anesthesia without first emptying his stomach despite signs he had a full one. Pellock aspirated, developed aspiration pneumonia and respiratory failure, and died. His widow and son sued the anesthesia group and a Dubuque County jury returned a $10 million verdict against it in September 2017, awarded entirely as loss-of-consortium damages. Defense lawyers were reported as saying they would challenge the verdict, but no Iowa appellate decision in the case has ever been published.
Prior results do not guarantee a similar outcome. Each case is unique and depends on its own facts.
