VI.
Practice of the Firm
Appellate
The record, perfected. Briefing and argument before the circuits and the Supreme Court.
The approach.
The appellate practice writes the briefs judges quote: merits and en banc briefing, certiorari strategy, and argument before the federal courts of appeals and the Supreme Court of the United States.
Nine arguments before the Court; forty-one matters en banc. The practice reads a record as if the client's future depends on a footnote. It sometimes does.
Representative Matters
2019 — Whitmore affirmance — The $310M verdict, defended on appeal.
2017 — U.S. Supreme Court, statutory interpretation — Decided 7–2 for the firm's client.
2009 — Third Circuit en banc — Panel reversed; the firm's rule adopted circuit-wide.
A selection. Most of the practice’s engagements remain, by design, confidential.