Gregory M. Lipper is Senior Litigation Counsel at Americans United for Separation of Church and State.

Mr. Lipper joined Americans United in January 2011, and he litigates church/state cases at trial and on appeal.  He was lead counsel in Schultz v. Medina Valley Independent School District, a high-profile school-prayer case near San Antonio, and in Stewart v. Johnson County, a challenge to a local government's promotion of Christianity in the county courthouse. Mr. Lipper also authored our amicus briefs to the U.S. Supreme Court in Hosanna-Tabor v. EEOC and to the Sixth Circuit in Ward v. Polite.

Before joining Americans United, Mr. Lipper spent six years at Covington & Burling LLP, where his practice included trial and appellate litigation, white-collar criminal defense, and First Amendment advice. Mr. Lipper is an experienced oral advocate, and he has represented parties or amici in over twenty cases before the U.S. Supreme Court.

Mr. Lipper received his J.D., magna cum laude, in 2003 from Harvard Law School, where he was Notes Editor of the Harvard Law Review, an oralist on the winning team in the Ames Moot Court Competition, and a student attorney with the Criminal Justice Institute. Following law school, Mr. Lipper clerked for Judge R. Guy Cole, Jr., on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit. He received his B.A., with honors, from Northwestern University in 2000 and was a National Intercollegiate Champion in Extemporaneous Speaking.

Mr. Lipper has published and lectured on a range of topics, including the Religion Clauses, the Free Speech Clause, and federal jurisdiction. He is a member of the Edward Coke Appellate Inn of Court. You can follow Mr. Lipper on Twitter @theglipper.