Since joining Mayer Brown in 1998, Craig Canetti has been a member of the firm's Supreme Court and Appellate practice, working on a variety of appellate matters in both state and federal courts of appeals, and the United States Supreme Court. Craig's appellate practice has encompassed matters involving, among other issues, federal and state class actions, preemption, the First Amendment, ERISA, and accounting malpractice.
Craig is a magna cum laude graduate of Yale University and a cum laude graduate of the Georgetown University Law Center. While at Georgetown, he served as an associate editor of the Journal of Law and Policy in International Business, and received the International Academy of Trial Lawyers Award for Appellate Advocacy. After law school, Craig clerked for Judge Michael W. Farrell of the District of Columbia Court of Appeals from 1995 to 1996. Prior to joining the Firm, Craig worked as an associate at Covington & Burling in Washington, D.C.