Chris Conrad joined Ropes & Gray’s data, privacy & cybersecurity group in 2025. His diverse practice draws on experience as a litigator and business advisor to firms operating in the financial services, energy, technology, and aerospace & defense sectors. He clerked for Judge Thomas Ambro of the Third Circuit and Judge Liam O’Grady of the Eastern District of Virginia. In between clerkships, he worked as an associate for a plaintiff-side boutique specializing in class actions and mass arbitrations. He graduated magna cum laude from Georgetown University Law Center, where he served on the senior board of the Georgetown Law Journal. Prior to law school, he earned his Master’s Degree in Security Policy Studies from the Elliott School of International Affairs and worked as a business management consultant for cybersecurity businesses, private equity firms, and hedge funds.
Chris is lead pro bono counsel to a death row inmate in capital habeas proceedings in the Northern District of Alabama. He is co-chair of the Young Lawyers Committee for the Northern Virginia Federal Bar Association.