Recognized by Best Lawyers in its “Ones to Watch” Appellate category, Kolya Glick is a Senior Associate in the firm’s Appellate & Supreme Court practice. Kolya represents clients in all phases of complex civil litigation, including in trials and appeals across state and federal courts. He has significant experience as the principal brief-writer on high-stakes questions of constitutional law, administrative law, and state consumer protection laws. He has helped clients secured major wins in constitutional, administrative law, and antitrust cases, including landmark civil rights and free speech victories in the U.S. Supreme Court, successful challenges to federal agency action, defense of enforcement actions by state attorneys general, and, recently, dismissal of antitrust claims against the largest steel producer in the U.S.
Kolya maintains an active pro bono practice focused on the First Amendment, federal criminal appeals, and civil rights issues, including voting rights and questions of qualified immunity.
Prior to joining the firm, Kolya served as a law clerk to the Honorable Scott M. Matheson of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit, the Honorable Karen L. Henderson of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit, and the Honorable Liam O'Grady for the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia. He graduated with highest honors from The George Washington University Law School, where he served as the Senior Projects Editor of the George Washington Law Review. Kolya has returned to GW Law to teach legal research and writing courses to first-year law students.
Experience
- Briefed, argued, and won motion to dismiss and subsequent Fourth Circuit appeal for pharmaceutical company Lundbeck LLC in complex civil RICO suit involving allegedly improper donations to charitable co-pay foundations. MSP Recovery Claims, Series LLC v. Lundbeck LLC, 130 F.4th 91 (4th Cir. 2025).
- Represented Nucor Corp., the largest steel producer in the United States, in briefing a successful motion to dismiss the plaintiff’s antitrust group boycott claims, and then successfully defending that dismissal on appeal. JSW Steel (USA) Inc. v. Nucor Corp., No. 4:21-CV-01842, 2022 WL 489321 (S.D. Tex. Feb. 17, 2022); JSW Steel (USA) v. Nucor Corp., No. 22-20149 (5th Cir. Mar. 17, 2025).
- Briefed, argued, and obtained partial reversal in Eighth Circuit qualified immunity case involving unconstitutional detention and search of innocent civilians that were misidentified as shoplifting suspects. Smith v. Rozeboom, 108 F.4th 1064 (8th Cir. 2024)
- Briefed and won landmark free speech victory in the U.S. Supreme Court for criminal defendant regarding the scope of the “true threats” exception to the First Amendment. Counterman v. Colorado, 600 U.S. 66 (2023).
- Briefed and argued cross-motions for summary judgment for National Parks Conservation Association in its APA challenge to an administrative rule permitting off-road vehicles on Glen Canyon National Recreation Area, leading to favorable settlement and new agency rulemaking. NPCA v. Dep’t of Interior, No. 21-cv-171 (D.D.C.).
- Briefed and won significant civil rights victory in the U.S. Supreme Court for plaintiff seeking to enforce provisions of the Federal Nursing Home Reform Act under 42 U.S.C. § 1983. Health & Hosp. Corp. of Marion Cnty. v. Talevski, 599 U.S. 166 (2023).
- Represented The Kroger Co. in multiple antitrust suits brought by state attorneys general, private plaintiffs, and the FTC challenging various aspects of Kroger-Albertsons merger agreement, including in litigation before the D.C. District Court and the D.C. Circuit, state courts in Washington and Colorado, and federal court in the District of Oregon and the Northern District of California.
- Represented the National Union Fire Insurance Company in successfully defending an appeal in the Delaware Supreme Court concerning the scope of “related” insurance claims. First Solar, Inc. v. Nat'l Union Fire Ins. Co., 274 A.3d 1006, 1007 (Del. 2022) (en banc).
- Briefed and argued federal habeas appeal for inmate pursuing novel statutory claims, achieving a partial victory and receiving acknowledgment and thanks as pro bono counsel in the court’s published opinion. Wallace v. United States, 43 F.4th 595, 600 (6th Cir. 2022).
- Represented pharmaceutical manufacturers Bristol-Myers Squibb Co. and Sanofi in multi-billion dollar consumer protection cases brought by the attorney general of Hawaii concerning the drug Plavix, including through discovery, dispositive briefing, a four-week virtual bench trial, and a successful appeal to the Hawaii Supreme Court. State ex rel. Shikada v. Bristol-Myers Squibb Co., 152 Haw. 418 (2023).
- Briefed and won reversal of adverse summary judgment decision in high-profile case involving the Title IX and due process rights of a former University of Connecticut Women’s Soccer player whose athletic scholarship was wrongfully terminated. Radwan v. Manuel, 55 F.4th 101 (2d Cir. 2022).
- Represented pharmaceutical manufacturer AstraZeneca in successful APA challenge to violation letter from the Department of Health and Human Services and successful defense of that decision on appeal. Sanofi Aventis U.S. LLC v. Dep’t of Health & Hum. Servs., 58 F.4th 696 (3d Cir. 2023).
- Briefed, argued, and won a motion to dismiss counterclaims in a complex breach-of-contract and business tort case. Chenega Corp. v. Antkowiak, No. 19-cv-1329 (E.D. Va. 2020).
- Argued novel Ninth Circuit First Amendment retaliation case as amicus curiae for the National Police Accountability Project in dispute involving freedom of speech for government employees in the courtroom. Ohlson v. Brady, 9 F.4th 1156, 1158 (9th Cir. 2021).
Perspectives
Recognition
Credentials
Education
- J.D., The George Washington University Law School, 2015,
Highest Honors, Order of the Coif
- B.A., History, University of California, Santa Cruz, 2010, magna cum laude
Admissions
- District of Columbia
- Virginia
- Supreme Court of the United States
- U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
- U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit
- U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
- U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
- U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
- U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
- U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit
- U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit
- U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit
- U.S. District Court, District of Colorado
- U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Virginia
- U.S. District Court, District of Columbia
Clerkships
- U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Virginia, The Honorable Liam O'Grady
- U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit, The Honorable Karen LeCraft Henderson
- U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit, The Honorable Scott M. Matheson, Jr.