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December 15, 2025
Cases won by Jeff Wall of Sullivan & Cromwell LLP ushered in the end of net neutrality and allowed energy companies to sue over state environmental regulations. Changes to government policies and court precedent earned him a spot as one of the 2025 Law360 Appellate MVPs.
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December 12, 2025
Last year, Paul Weiss' Kannon Shanmugam scored a win in the Fifth Circuit that sent shockwaves through the bankruptcy world, removed a crypto company from a government blacklist and torpedoed a $440 million judgment against a cruise company over Cuba sanctions, earning him a spot as one of the 2025 Law360 Appellate MVPs.
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December 11, 2025
Adam Unikowsky of Jenner & Block LLP's appellate practice got a U.S. Supreme Court victory in February on behalf of unemployment claimants. He also obtained a Second Circuit panel majority win for Uber and Postmates in a proposed antitrust class action and a partial win at the First Circuit in a challenge to a Rhode Island toll on tractor trailers, earning him a spot as one of the 2025 Law360 Appellate MVPs.
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December 10, 2025
Deepak Gupta of Gupta Wessler challenged the president's power to remove independent agency board members and rescued the class action device from two existential threats in the Supreme Court, earning him a spot as one of the 2025 Law360 Appellate MVPs.
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December 09, 2025
Allyson Ho of Gibson Dunn & Crutcher LLP convinced the Fifth Circuit to overturn a contempt order against Texas officials in charge of the state's foster care system that would have fined them $100,000 a day, earning her a spot as one of the 2025 Law360 Appellate MVPs.
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December 08, 2025
Dechert LLP's Michael McGinley and Steven Engel had three cases before the U.S. Supreme Court during its previous term, including a unanimous ruling that clarified how final judgments can be reopened, earning them spots as 2025 Law360 Appellate MVPs.
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November 10, 2025
The attorneys chosen as Law360's 2025 MVPs have distinguished themselves from their peers by securing significant achievements in high-stakes litigation, complex global matters and record-breaking deals.
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November 19, 2024
Latham & Watkins LLP's Roman Martinez outdid himself this year, helping to tear down the Chevron deference doctrine in a landmark Supreme Court case and upending existing precedent in another win on behalf of a $70 billion retirement fund, making him one of the 2024 Law360 Appellate MVPs.
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November 18, 2024
Kannon Shanmugam, chair of Paul Weiss Rifkind Wharton & Garrison LLP's Supreme Court and appellate litigation practice, won a precedent-setting Second Circuit decision in a $13 billion Goldman Sachs shareholder class action, got a criminal conviction thrown out for former U.S. Rep. Jeff Fortenberry, and persuaded the Nevada Supreme Court that a former Las Vegas Raiders head coach must arbitrate his leaked-email claims against the NFL, earning him a spot as one of the 2024 Law360 Appellate MVPs.
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November 15, 2024
Lisa S. Blatt of Williams & Connolly LLP's appellate practice won high-profile victories at the U.S. Supreme Court involving injunctions against employers and the scope of federal bribery law in corruption cases, earning her a spot as one of the 2024 Law360 Appellate MVPs.
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November 14, 2024
Jessica Ellsworth of Hogan Lovells' appellate practice argued in the U.S. Supreme Court on behalf of Danco Laboratories, leading to the overturning of a decision that threatened to block access to the company's abortion medication, and on behalf of Coinbase, resulting in a holding that it is up to judges, not arbitrators, to figure out if contracts between businesses and consumers have subtly superseded earlier agreements to proceed in arbitration rather than litigation. The back-to-back arguments helped earn her a spot as one of the 2024 Law360 Appellate MVPs.
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November 13, 2024
Jeff Wall, who heads Sullivan & Cromwell LLP's Supreme Court and appellate practice, won a unanimous high court ruling that insurers can enforce choice-of-law provisions in maritime policies, triumphed over a Delaware Supreme Court case for Bayer AG involving liability for billions of dollars in consumers' talc claims, and preserved the MLB's antitrust exemption, earning him a spot as one of the 2024 Law360 Appellate MVPs.
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November 12, 2024
Allyson N. Ho of Gibson Dunn & Crutcher LLP's appellate practice won a high-profile and unanimous U.S. Supreme Court ruling reversing decades of bankruptcy precedent, and another unanimous win at the Third Circuit safeguarding crime victims' rights, earning her a spot as one of the 2024 Law360 Appellate MVPs.
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October 18, 2024
The attorneys chosen as Law360's 2024 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 06, 2023
Lisa S. Blatt of Williams & Connolly LLP's appellate practice has had a big year, arguing four cases in front of the Supreme Court and getting victories in cases involving Google and the Andy Warhol Foundation, earning her a spot as one of Law360's 2023 Appellate MVPs.
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October 05, 2023
Chris Michel of Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan LLP helped secure a win at the Supreme Court when justices found that Alabama's congressional map broke the Voting Rights Act and then, just one week later, tagged another victory in the same court when it upheld the Indian Child Welfare Act against a number of constitutional tests, earning him a place among Law360's 2023 Appellate MVPs.
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October 04, 2023
Yaakov Roth of Jones Day represented North American Coal Corp. in a U.S. Supreme Court case with a huge impact on administrative law as justices swept away the Obama administration's signature clean energy plan, earning him a spot as one of Law360's 2023 Appellate MVPs.
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October 03, 2023
Jessica Ellsworth of Hogan Lovells spent a whirlwind two weeks fighting her way up to the U.S. Supreme Court to preserve nationwide access to the widely used abortion medication mifepristone, earning her a spot as one of Law360's 2023 Appellate MVPs.
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October 02, 2023
Neal Katyal of Hogan Lovells argued nearly 10% of the cases that the U.S. Supreme Court heard last year and won some big ones, including the landmark Moore v. Harper, in which the court declared state courts have the power to review state laws related to federal elections, earning him a spot as one of Law360's 2023 Appellate MVPs.
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October 01, 2023
The attorneys chosen as Law360's 2023 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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September 14, 2022
Kannon Shanmugam of Paul Weiss Rifkind Wharton & Garrison LLP successfully represented a commercial insurance client in a string of federal appeals related to COVID-19 business interruptions, argued two major appeals on consecutive days in Minnesota and New York, and convinced the Kentucky Supreme Court to consider a case involving thoroughbred breeding rights that could have significant impact on the horseracing industry, earning him a spot among Law360's 2022 Appellate MVPs.
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September 13, 2022
Josh Rosenkranz of Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP has represented Johnson & Johnson in a series of appeals of jury verdicts finding the company's iconic baby powder caused cancer, including a New Jersey appeal wiping out a $117 million verdict, earning him a spot as one of Law360's 2022 Appellate MVPs.
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September 12, 2022
Melissa Arbus Sherry of Latham & Watkins LLP led teams that scored a unanimous U.S. Supreme Court victory over a narrowly missed Tax Court deadline and an important ruling on the enforcement of federal forum-selection clauses, earning her a spot as one of Law360's 2022 Appellate MVPs.
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September 09, 2022
Daniel Geyser of Haynes and Boone LLP's Supreme Court practice created seismic changes in the areas of arbitration law and bankruptcy law this year when he argued and won two major U.S. Supreme Court cases, earning him a spot among Law360's 2022 Appellate MVPs.
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September 02, 2022
The attorneys chosen as Law360's 2022 MVPs have distinguished themselves from their peers by securing hard-earned successes in high-stakes litigation, complex global matters and record-breaking deals.