Mayer Brown’s more than 60 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
Dan Himmelfarb to Speak At WLF Supreme Court Term Review 22 June, 2009 – The Washington Legal Foundation (WLF) will hold a media briefing on Tuesday, June 30 at 8:30 a.m. at its M.J. Murdock Center for Free Enterprise in Washington, D.C. The speakers, including Mayer Brown Partner Dan Himmelfarb, will assess rulings that affect the free enterprise system and other key developments from the term. Read >>
Mayer Brown Again Stands Atop Appellate Rankings in Both Chambers USA and Legal 500 US June 16, 2009 - Chambers USA and Legal 500 US have again recognized our Supreme Court & Appellate group's preeminence in the field: for the third year in a row, both Chambers USA and Legal 500 US rank us as a top tier practice, with Chambers noting that our ''heavyweight appellate team…is widely regarded as one of the best in the USA.'' Read >>
Tonnage clause day at the Supreme Court Blog of Legal Times; June 15, 2009 - Mayer Brown successfully represented Polar Tankers in a case before the Supreme Court, which sustained a challenge to a property tax imposed on oil tankers by the City of Valdez, Alaska. The Court held, by a vote of 7-2, that the tax violated the federal Constitution's Tonnage Clause. Read >>
Over two dozen members of the Supreme Court & Appellate practice worked together to author Federal Appellate Practice, which publisher BNA Books describes as “[a] practical manual on handling federal appellate matters, especially civil appeals and cases involving review of federal administrative agencies.” The result is a very impressive volume, which practitioners will greatly appreciate. It makes a perfect companion to Supreme Court Practice, highlighted below and also published by BNA Books, for which several partners at the firm have been responsible for many years.
To view the table of contents or find out more information on the treatise, please click here.
Federal Appellate Practice Teleconference Series
To coincide with BNA Books' publication of Mayer Brown's Federal Appellate Practice, our Supreme Court & Appellate practice is pleased to offer a complimentary weekly teleconference series focusing on topics of interest to counsel dealing with appeals in the federal courts. Each 30-minute session, led by various authors of the book, will offer an inside look at how to successfully navigate the federal appeals process. Audio of each presentation will be posted.
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
2008 Term, June 29, 2009
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 29, 2009, discusses the following cases in which the Court granted certiorari:
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 29, 2009
Today the Supreme Court issued one decision of interest to the business community.
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.
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 217 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.
Mayer Brown is a global legal services organization comprising legal
practices that are separate entities ("Mayer Brown Practices"). The
Mayer Brown Practices are: Mayer Brown LLP, a limited liability
partnership established in the United States; Mayer Brown
International LLP, a limited liability partnership incorporated in
England and Wales; and JSM, a Hong Kong partnership, and its
associated entities in Asia. The Mayer Brown Practices are known as
Mayer Brown JSM in Asia.
Over two dozen members of the Supreme Court & Appellate practice worked together to author Federal Appellate Practice, which publisher BNA Books describes as “[a] practical manual on handling federal appellate matters, especially civil appeals and cases involving review of federal administrative agencies.” The result is a very impressive volume, which practitioners will greatly appreciate. It makes a perfect companion to 
