Harrison County native and Notre Dame High School graduate Julian Pecora has been selected to represent the United States in Germany and Brussels for a prestigious leadership fellowship.

 

Pecora, an Associate Attorney at Huntington’s Farrell White & Legg PLLC, was selected via a highly competitive process where only around 30 people from the United States were selected for the Atlantik-Brücke’s New Bridge Program. The fully funded 10-day program begins with a predeparture seminar in Washington, D.C., where participants get to know one another, make their first valuable connections with the transatlantic community, and prepare for their trip to Berlin and Brussels.

 

While in Germany and Belgium, the group will meet with high-ranking officials and decision makers from critical sectors; visit key government, business, and cultural sites; and engage with European counterparts, both professionally and socially. Cultural activities, such as going on a Cold War walking tour of Berlin or exploring the vibrant city life of Brussels, will round out the program.

 

After completing the program, participants will be integrated into an alumni network with additional events and opportunities for continued exchange. With its New Bridge program, Atlantik-Brücke seeks to garner interest in Europe among more Americans, spark new ideas, and continue to build a strong transatlantic community.

 

Pecora is only the second West Virginian ever selected by Atlantik-Brücke. Candidates were required to be professionals between the ages of 25 and 35 and be leaders in their respective fields in the United States. Candidates also had to be open to new experiences, curious about international affairs, and willing to engage in continuous conversations on European-American relations actively.

 

At Farrell White & Legg PLLC, Pecora primarily concentrates on medical and pharmaceutical defense litigation. He assists in the representation of a Fortune 500 company. His professional accomplishments include extensive litigation activity relative to his experience level, such as participating in over 40 depositions, participation as counsel of record in a reported opinion of the Supreme Court of Appeals of West Virginia, participation as counsel of record in two civil actions in which his firm won summary judgment motions for its clients.

 

A native of Clarksburg, Pecora moved to Huntington in September 2020.  He graduated summa cum laude from Fairmont State University in 2017 with a degree in Political Science and a minor in National Security and Intelligence. Pecora attended West Virginia University College of Law and graduated in 2020.

 

While in law school, he studied abroad in Geneva, Switzerland. He was a federal summer law clerk for The Honorable Michael J. Aloi for the Northern District of West Virginia and a Rule 10 attorney for the United States Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of West Virginia.

 

Julian is the founder of Counsel Connections. This program facilitates monthly networking functions in the Charleston/Huntington area, which programs are open to all lawyers and other professionals but emphasize the participation and attendance of young lawyers.