Jerome Madden
Legal Rhetoric Instructor
E-mail: academic@wcl.american.edu
Adjunct Instructor Jerome Madden is presently a Counsel in the the Litigation Division, Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, where he represents the OCC in various civil matters, including an enforcement action against a major accounting firm now pending in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit. He has spent the past 22 years litigating cases related to the financial institution crisis of the 1980's and early 1990's, as a Senior Trial Counsel at the Torts Branch, Civil Division, U.S. Department of Justice, as Counsel and Acting Senior Counsel at the FDIC, Appellate Litigation Section, and as a member of the trial team at the Commercial Litigation Branch, Civil Division, U.S. Department of Justice defending the United States against $20 billion in breach-of-contract claims, related to United States v. Winstar, 518 U.S. 839 (1996), brought by banks and thrifts. From 2000-2003, he taught Legal Research and Writing and an Introduction to Advocacy at the George Washington Law School, and in the fall of 2006 he taught the Principles of Agency Law at Catholic University’s Columbus School of Law. He began his career as a law clerk to Chief Justices O’Neill and Leach of the Ohio Supreme Court and as a litigation associate at the Washington office of the Wall Street law firm Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft. He graduated summa cum laude from the University of Dayton School of Law, where he served as the editor-in-chief of the law review. Professor Madden also holds an LLM in financial institution and securities regulation from the Georgetown University Law Center.
