Bartlit Beck LLP

Hamilton serves as trial counsel and legal advisor in high-profile matters around the country. He regularly tries cases before juries, judges, and arbitrators, and has first-chaired trials and cases with hundreds of millions of dollars at stake. Hamilton has experience with a wide variety of complex commercial litigation matters, including breach of contract, breach of fiduciary duty and other business torts, fraud claims, intellectual property, antitrust, product liability, and personal injury.

In 2011, Hamilton was named one of the 40 Illinois Attorneys Under Forty to Watch. He was also named a 2013 BTI Client Service All-Star, which is given to those who deliver "the absolute best client service." Law 360 called the litigators who made the list the "cream of the crop," and noted that less than 100 litigators nationwide received this recognition. From 2019-23, he was named a "Litigation Star" by Benchmark. And a client stated in a testimonial in the 2020 Legal 500 rankings that "Hamilton is a disarmingly juror-friendly legal assassin. He is a relatable, empathetic storyteller who makes the complex simple."

Faculty member for NITA’s Building Trial Skills Program (2020)

Taught Trial Advocacy Course to Navy JAG Team from Great Lakes Naval Station (2017)

Chair of the Dean’s Advisory Board for the College of Liberal Arts & Sciences, University of Kansas (2014-2017)

Member of the Board of Directors for the Illinois Better Government Association (2014-2016)

Northwestern School of Law-Adjunct Professor (Spring 2009): Taught "High-Tech Trial Techniques" class on the use of technology at trial and in preparation for trial

The University of Chicago Law School, 2001, J.D., with Honors

The University of Chicago Law Review

University of Kansas, 1998, B.G.S.

Perfect GPA at Kansas

1st-Team Academic All Big XII, 1997 (one of four Big XII football players to letter and have 4.0 GPA)