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Mayer Brown’s more than 55 appellate lawyers have argued over 200 cases before the United States Supreme Court, representing either parties or amici in approximately 15 cases each Term for the past several years, and arguing an average of four per Term. In addition, our lawyers have argued hundreds of cases in federal and state appellate courts across the nation.

Spotlights
Chambers USA observes that our “team members’ ‘compelling oratory and strategic analysis is always favored in the courts.’”
Legal 500 US 2008 reports that clients describe Mayer Brown's appellate lawyers as “fantastic in providing support in previously uncharted territory” and “praise Mayer Brown’s brief writing as ‘simply brilliant—the best out there.’”
Clients interviewed by Legal 500 state that “‘the depth and breadth of the practice is unrivalled’, due not only to its ‘tremendous depth of expertise’ but also to its ability to ‘bring so many creative lawyers to work on matters.’”

Chambers USA and Legal 500 US have again recognized our Supreme Court & Appellate group's preeminence in the field: Legal 500 ranks us as a top tier practice, and Chambers USA ranks us alone in its top tier, stating that “for another year running, the appellate group at Mayer Brown stands head and shoulders above its competitors.” In fact, Mayer Brown is the only firm to have received top-tier rankings in the appellate category by both publications this year--a feat the firm accomplished last year as well. The publications’ comments illustrate Mayer Brown’s dominance in the field of appellate advocacy:

Welcome to our web site. Here, we have collected information and links relevant to Supreme Court and appellate practice, as well as information about our attorneys and the cases we have handled in recent years. We hope you enjoy exploring the site.

Mayer Brown In The News
External DocumentAM Law Daily Quotes Mayer Brown Partner Andy Pincus on Securities Class Action System
24 July 2008 - The AM Law Daily  today quoted Mayer Brown partner Andy Pincus in an article discussing the current securities class action system, which has brought in over $17 billion in the past 10 years for Plaintiff's lawyers and continues to gain momentum. Pincus spoke as a panelist at the luncheon, which was cosponsored by the Manhattan Institute for Policy Research and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce's Institute for Legal Reform (ILR). Read >>
HTML DocumentMayer Brown Attorney Discusses Kennedy v. Louisiana on C-SPAN
On June 26, 2008, Mayer Brown attorney Kevin Ranlett was featured in C-SPAN's Washington Journal for a full 30-minute segment on the Kennedy v. Louisiana Supreme Court case decided the previous day. He discussed the case as well as an amicus brief filed by Mayer Brown LLP on behalf of the National Association of Social Workers and other victims'-rights groups, which was cited repeatedly in the decision. Read >>
HTML DocumentMayer Brown again stands alone atop appellate rankings in both Chambers USA and Legal 500 United States
17 June 2008 - For a second consecutive year, the Supreme Court & Appellate practice of Mayer Brown LLP, a leading global law firm, is ranked in the top tier of the appellate law category in both Chambers USA and Legal 500 United States, a distinction achieved by no other law firm. Read >>
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Focus On The Supreme Court
Mayer Brown boasts one of the premier Supreme Court practices in the country.  The following are some resources about the Supreme Court.
 
Supreme Court Docket Reports
2007 Term, Number 14 / June 23, 2008

Mayer Brown prepares a newsletter describing all cases of interest to the business community in which the Supreme Court grants certiorari.  The most recent docket report, issued June  23, 2008, discusses the following cases in which the Court granted certiorari:
Antitrust/Telecommunications—Section 2 Price Squeeze Claims
Title VII—Pregnancy Discrimination Act—Treatment of Preenactment Leaves

This docket report is available here.
All other docket reports from the last several years are available here.
Click here to request email delivery of future docket reports.

Decision Alert

Decision Alert - June 26, 2008

Today the Supreme Court issued one decision of interest to the business community.
Morgan Stanley Capital Group, Inc. v. Public Util. Dist. No. 1, Nos. 06-1457 & 06-1462

Supreme Court Reference Material
The following are some useful charts and Mayer Brown publications on the Supreme Court and Supreme Court practice:
Supreme Court Practice Treatise
With three current members of Mayer Brown's appellate litigation group among its coauthors, the leading treatise on Supreme Court litigation -- Supreme Court Practice by Eugene Gressman, Stephen M. Shapiro, Kenneth S. Geller, Timothy S. Bishop, and Edward A. Hartnett -- is written from the authors' firsthand knowledge and experience. A new, ninth edition was released in December 2007 incorporating changes in practice resulting from the Court's new rules, which became effective October 1, 2007. The preface and table of contents are available on this site. To order the book from its publisher, BNA, click here.

Book Reviews
Click here to read the review of the ninth edition that originally appeared in the February 11, 2008 issue of
Legal Times

Click here to read the review of the eight edition that originally appeared in the Summer 2002 issue of The Appellate Practice Journal
Click here to read the review of the eight edition that appeared in the Autumn 2002 issue of The Green Bag

The Yale Law School Supreme Court Clinic

In addition to their duties at Mayer Brown, Andy Pincus and Charles Rothfeld helped found and are co-directors of the Yale Law School Supreme Court Clinic. The clinic provides clients with the highest quality pro bono representation before the United States Supreme Court, and is in addition to Mayer Brown's other pro bono efforts in the Supreme Court. More information about the Clinic is available at its web site.
 

The Oyez Project

Northwestern University's Oyez Project is a multimedia site with information on the Supreme Court and online recordings of most recent Supreme Court arguments.  Mayer Brown is a proud sponsor of the Oyez Project.

 
 
Recent Oral Arguments
F5 -- DB Connection is not down Mayer Brown's Supreme Court and Appellate Practice group has a depth and breadth of Supreme Court experience without equal in the private bar.  To see and listen to representative recent arguments by the members of the group, please visit our oral arguments page. To see a complete list of the 210 cases our lawyers have argued in the Supreme Court, click here.
 
Recent Briefs
We file hundreds of briefs in the Supreme Court and other federal and state courts of appeals a year.  We post a wide selection of these briefs on this site.  Briefs, sorted by case name, subject matter, court, or attorney, can be viewed here.
 
Recent Articles
Our lawyers frequently write articles on important appellate decisions, Supreme Court and appellate practice, and other topics.  To read a variety of recent articles by our lawyers, click here.
 
 

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