Julia Tarver Mason Wood

Julia Tarver Mason Wood is a partner in the Litigation Department of Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton& Garrison LLP in New York and has experience litigating a wide array of complex commercial matters, including securities, bankruptcy, class action, product-liability and antitrust litigation. She has also done extensive pro bono work in the area of the death penalty, among others. Ms. Wood has tried multiple jury, bench and arbitration cases to verdict in federal and state courts around the country, while helping to settle others on the eve or in the midst of trial. In addition, she has argued complex appellate matters before U.S. courts of appeals. Ms. Wood is a former secretary of the New York City Bar Association’sCommittee on Capital Punishment. In 2000, she received the New York State Association of CriminalDefense Lawyers’ Gideon Award for her representation of attorneys in a lawsuit challenging New York’s capital counsel fees. Ms. Wood received her B.A. in 1993 Phi Beta Kappa from Rhodes College and herJ.D. in 1996 from Columbia Law School, where she was a Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar, served as managing editor of the Columbia Law Review and was awarded Columbia Law School’s two highest prizes for trial advocacy. Following law school, she clerked for Hon. Sonia Sotomayor of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York.