Prior to joining the Department, Mr. Urda was a law clerk for the Honorable Daniel Manion of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit, and also practiced law in Chicago, working for Maciorowski, Sackmann & Ulrich and McDermott, Will & Emery. Mr. Urda received his undergraduate degree in classics (summa cum laude) from the University of Notre Dame, and received his law degree from the Harvard Law School.