Career
From 2008 to 2009,Murphy served as a law clerk for Judge Kimberly A. Moore of the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit. From 2007 to 2022,he was a partner with the Philadelphia office of BakerHostetler where he focused on intellectual property litigation. [3]
In 2019,Murphy represented a number of plaintiffs suing to block the Pennsylvania Secretary of State's certification of ExpressVote XL electronic voting machines,challenging the security,reliability,and accuracy of the machines. [4] [5] [6] [7]
Since 2014,he has worked as an adjunct professor of law at Rutgers Law School and Villanova Charles Widger School of Law,where he teaches patent litigation. [8] [9]
Federal judicial service
On July 12,2022,President Joe Biden nominated Murphy to serve as a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania. Murphy had been recommended by Senator Patrick Toomey and was nominated as part of a bipartisan package of nominees which included Kelley B. Hodge,Kai Scott,and Mia Roberts Perez. [10] President Biden nominated Murphy to the seat vacated by Judge Lawrence F. Stengel,who retired on August 31,2018. [11] On September 7,2022,a hearing on his nomination was held before the Senate Judiciary Committee. [12] On September 28,2022,his nomination was reported out of committee by a 18–4 vote. [13] On December 7,2022,the United States Senate confirmed his nomination by a 63–28 vote. [14] He received his judicial commission on December 23,2022. [15]
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