About John Naylor

After receiving his bachelor’s degree from Northwestern University in 1984, John attended law school at Washington University in St. Louis. He received his law degree in 1987, and worked at a nationally recognized litigation firm in Kansas City, Missouri before heading to University of Cambridge (Trinity Hall) in Great Britain to study for his LL.M. John received his LL.M. in 1989.

John then joined the bankruptcy and finance law boutique firm of Dixon & Dixon, PC. He concentrated on bankruptcy work, corporate restructuring work, and securities work, primarily under the Securities Act of 1933 and the Securities Exchange Act of 1934. While at Dixon & Dixon, John helped open the firm’s office in Kuwait City, Kuwait following the end of the first Gulf War.

Wanting to become a litigator, John left Dixon & Dixon to join the United States Air Force as a judge advocate. His first assignment was as a prosecutor at Kadena Air Base in Okinawa, Japan. That assignment was followed by his appointment as an Area Defense Counsel at Kadena, defending airmen charged with crimes under the Uniform Code of Military Justice. In 1997, John was assigned to the Office of the Chief Trial Attorney of the United States Air Force at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in Ohio. While based at Wright-Paterson, John represented the Air Force before the Armed Services Board of Contract Appeals, located in Falls Church, Virginia. John represented the Air Force in a wide variety of government contract claims, ranging from simple supply contracts, military construction projects, research and development contracts, and satellite systems contracts.