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September 13, 2021
Sarah Harris of Williams & Connolly LLP's appellate practice successfully argued two cases before the U.S. Supreme Court in the past year, including one involving a 5-4 decision that found former railroad workers have the right to appeal in federal court if the Railroad Retirement Board refuses to reopen their prior benefits claim, earning her a spot as one of Law360's 2021 Appellate MVPs.
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September 10, 2021
Paul Clement of Kirkland & Ellis LLP successfully argued four cases before the U.S. Supreme Court in the past year, scoring wins for Alaska Native corporations, Facebook and TransUnion, which earned him a spot among Law360's 2021 Appellate MVPs.
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September 09, 2021
Kannon K. Shanmugam of Paul Weiss Rifkind Wharton & Garrison LLP notched three U.S. Supreme Court wins and a handful of circuit court victories last year, including favorable rulings in a landmark climate change case and a $13 billion securities class action against Goldman Sachs, earning him a spot as one of Law360's 2021 Appellate MVPs.
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September 08, 2021
Derek L. Shaffer of Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan LLP successfully challenged a California donor disclosure law before the U.S. Supreme Court, and got Delaware's highest court to reverse an adverse $82 million jury verdict in a suit alleging Express Scripts Inc. committed fraud to close a multimillion-dollar acquisition, earning him a spot as one of Law360's 2021 Appellate MVPs.
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September 07, 2021
Beth Brinkmann of Covington & Burling LLP won two injunctions against regulatory actions by the Trump administration and defended one on appeal, earning her a title as one of Law360's 2021 Appellate MVPs.
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August 30, 2021
The elite slate of attorneys chosen as Law360's 2021 MVPs have distinguished themselves from their peers by securing hard-earned successes in high-stakes litigation, complex global matters and record-breaking deals.
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October 09, 2020
Lisa S. Blatt of Williams & Connolly LLP's appellate practice brought in favorable rulings from the U.S. Supreme Court this year for clients including Booking.com, Romag Fasteners Inc. and Atlantic Richfield Co., earning her a spot as one of Law360's 2020 Appellate MVPs.
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October 08, 2020
Jeffrey Fisher of O'Melveny & Myers LLP helped scrub a persistent vestige of the Jim Crow era from the books by convincing the U.S. Supreme Court that split-jury convictions are unconstitutional, earning him a spot among Law360's 2020 Appellate MVPs.
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October 07, 2020
Paul Clement of Kirkland & Ellis LLP, who argued his 100th case in front of the U.S. Supreme Court this year, scored a high court victory for an insurer in a $12 billion case over obligations in the Affordable Care Act and represented Little Sisters of the Poor in a fight over religious exemptions to the ACA's contraception mandate, earning him a spot as one of Law360's 2020 Appellate MVPs.
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October 06, 2020
Shay Dvoretzky of Jones Day's appellate group won a unanimous victory for GE at the U.S. Supreme Court this year in a case that had wide ramifications for the world of international arbitration and participated in two circuit court cases shaping different areas of law, securing him a spot on the list of Law360's 2020 Appellate MVPs.
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October 05, 2020
Ian Heath Gershengorn, chair of Jenner & Block LLP's appellate and Supreme Court practice, scored a landmark victory for Indian Country when the high court ruled that the Muscogee (Creek) Nation's reservation endures, meaning the state of Oklahoma could not prosecute his Native American client for committing a crime within the tribal land's boundaries, placing him among Law360's 2020 Appellate MVPs.
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October 04, 2020
The elite slate of attorneys chosen as Law360's 2020 MVPs have distinguished themselves from their peers by securing hard-earned successes in high-stakes litigation, complex global matters and record-breaking deals.
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November 15, 2019
Shay Dvoretzky of Jones Day's appellate practice led Merck in persuading the Supreme Court to reverse a decision over drug warning labels and won a legal victory that limited the potential liability for government contractors facing asbestos cases, earning him a spot as one of Law360's 2019 Appellate MVPs.
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November 14, 2019
Lisa S. Blatt, chair of Williams & Connolly LLP's Supreme Court and appellate practice, scored a high court win for BNSF Railway over an employment tax controversy and successfully sought the justices' review in two cases set for oral argument this term, achievements that make her one of Law360's 2019 Appellate MVPs.
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November 13, 2019
Daniel L. Geyser of Geyser PC handled four U.S. Supreme Court cases in a one-year period, securing victories before the high court in a securities suit over the private right of shareholders to sue and a dispute over bankruptcy protections for consumers, earning him a spot among Law360's 2019 Appellate MVPs.
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November 12, 2019
Andrew Pincus of Mayer Brown LLP has argued dozens of cases before the U.S. Supreme Court, and the justices handed him a big win this year with a ruling restricting classwide arbitration claims, earning him a spot as one of Law360's 2019 Appellate MVPs.
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November 08, 2019
The elite slate of attorneys chosen as Law360's 2019 MVPs have distinguished themselves from their peers by securing hard-earned successes in high-stakes litigation, complex global matters and record-breaking deals.
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November 30, 2018
Kannon Shanmugam of Williams & Connolly LLP earned two big wins in the U.S. Supreme Court in the last year — narrowing the scope of the term "whistleblower" in Digital Realty Trust Inc. v. Somers and strengthening arbitration clauses in contracts in Ernst & Young LLP v. Morris — earning him a spot as one of Law360's 2018 Appellate MVPs.
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November 29, 2018
Yar Chaikovsky, the global co-chair of Paul Hastings LLP's intellectual property practice, scored a patent victory at the Federal Circuit last December for Yahoo and Twitter after a long-running multidistrict litigation battle with an Acacia Research Corp. subsidy, earning him a spot as one of Law360's 2018 Appellate MVPs.
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November 28, 2018
Jessica Ring Amunson, co-chair of Jenner & Block LLP's appellate and Supreme Court practice and chair of the firm's election law and redistricting practice, successfully argued in the U.S. Supreme Court case Class v. U.S., persuading the justices to rule that criminal defendants can challenge the constitutionality of laws they already pled guilty to breaking if they didn't explicitly waive the right to do so, earning her a spot as one of Law360's 2018 Appellate MVPs.
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November 27, 2018
Gibson Dunn & Crutcher LLP's Eugene Scalia beat the U.S. Department of Labor this year, scoring a high-profile victory that vacated the agency's controversial Obama-era fiduciary rule for retirement account advisers, earning him a spot among Law360's 2018 Appellate MVPs.
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November 26, 2018
Josh Rosenkranz, leader of Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP’s Supreme Court and appellate litigation practice, notched multiple headline-grabbing triumphs in the past year, including a high court victory in a closely watched immigration dispute and a circuit court win in the historic Oracle v. Google copyright clash, earning him a spot as one of Law360’s 2018 Appellate MVPs.
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November 21, 2018
The elite slate of attorneys chosen as Law360's 2018 MVPs have distinguished themselves from their peers by securing hard-earned successes in high-stakes litigation, complex global matters and record-breaking deals.
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December 18, 2017
Hogan Lovells partner Neal Katyal made legal history this year by breaking Justice Thurgood Marshall’s record for Supreme Court arguments by a minority attorney, but the former acting solicitor general also spent the year in the litigation trenches fighting President Donald Trump’s travel ban, landing him among Law360’s 2017 Appellate MVPs.
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December 15, 2017
Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan LLP's Kathleen M. Sullivan has amassed victories worth hundreds of millions of dollars on behalf of her clients in the past year, including helping Samsung to a landmark Supreme Court win over Apple, landing her among Law360's 2017 Appellate MVPs.