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		<title>Shay Dvoretzky</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Aug 2026 00:02:29 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>Shay Dvoretzky is the head of Skadden’s Supreme Court and Appellate Practice. He represents clients in a wide range of appellate matters in the U.S. Supreme Court, federal courts of appeals, and state appellate courts. His work has spanned many substantive areas, including constitutional and administrative law, tax, preemption, arbitration, antitrust,...</p>
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										<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p class="x_MsoNormal" data-olk-copy-source="MessageBody">Shay Dvoretzky is the head of Skadden’s Supreme Court and Appellate Practice. He represents clients in a wide range of appellate matters in the U.S. Supreme Court, federal courts of appeals, and state appellate courts. His work has spanned many substantive areas, including constitutional and administrative law, tax, preemption, arbitration, antitrust, bankruptcy, labor and employment, ERISA, telecommunications, securities, energy, intellectual property, and criminal defense, as well as various complex statutory questions. He also leverages his appellate experience to counsel clients on key strategic issues at the trial level, and to brief and argue dispositive motions with an eye toward appeal.</p>
<p class="x_MsoNormal">Recognized nationally as a leading appellate litigator, Mr. Dvoretzky has argued 23 cases in the Supreme Court. He has been one of the most active practitioners before the Supreme Court in recent years, arguing 12 merits cases since 2020. Mr. Dvoretzky’s latest Supreme Court victory came in <i>FS Credit Opportunities Corp. v. Saba Capital Master Fund, Ltd.</i>, in which he convinced the Court to hold that Section 47(b) of the Investment Company Act of 1940 (ICA) does not create an implied private right of action for private litigants to sue for certain violations of the ICA.</p>
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		<title>Libby Moulton</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Aug 2026 00:02:01 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>Libby&#8217;s practice focuses on the role of embedded appellate counsel in high stakes patent trials. Libby works across multiple industries for leading companies including Sonos, Zynga, and Netflix, among many others. Libby has taken 14 cases through jury verdict and dozens of cases through pretrial filings. She also leads post-trial...</p>
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										<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Libby&#8217;s practice focuses on the role of embedded appellate counsel in high stakes patent trials. Libby works across multiple industries for leading companies including Sonos, Zynga, and Netflix, among many others. Libby has taken 14 cases through jury verdict and dozens of cases through pretrial filings. She also leads post-trial briefing and appeal teams and has presented nine appellate arguments. Libby uses her past experience as a patent examiner, district court clerk, and Federal Circuit clerk to help clients with their most important high-tech cases.</p>
<p>Libby joins trial teams – both within and outside of Orrick – and takes the role of legal strategist and brief writer. Before trial, Libby develops strategies for raising and preserving legal issues, especially Daubert issues and dispositive motions. At trial, Libby handles the charge conference, Rule 50(a) or directed verdict motions, and pocket briefing as needed. After trial, she manages the post-trial briefing and transitions the case to appeal. </p>
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		<title>Eric Shumsky</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Aug 2026 00:02:01 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>Eric Shumsky is a nationally recognized appellate lawyer who handles high-stakes appeals across an array of subjects. He excels at translating cases that are complex – whether because of the legal doctrine, the technology, or the record – into the specialized format of appellate briefing and argument. Chambers USA reports...</p>
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										<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Eric Shumsky is a nationally recognized appellate lawyer who handles high-stakes appeals across an array of subjects. He excels at translating cases that are complex – whether because of the legal doctrine, the technology, or the record – into the specialized format of appellate briefing and argument.</p>
<p>Chambers USA reports that Eric is “hailed as &#8216;highly intelligent, an effective communicator and a great writer,&#8217;“ and he “&#8217;prepares meticulously, anticipates every question, and is a gifted orator.&#8217;” Legal 500 touts his “exceptional courtroom demeanor and presentation skills” as one of “the finest appellate litigators in the nation.” And Reuters, in a report reviewing some 17,000 practitioners, identified Eric as part of an “elite cadre” of 75 lawyers who are “the most influential members of one of the most powerful specialties in America: the business of practicing before the Supreme Court.”</p>
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		<title>Brantley Webb</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Aug 2026 00:01:50 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>Brantley Webb is an experienced litigator who focuses on complex civil litigation, including commercial disputes, ERISA class action lawsuits, breach of fiduciary duty cases, and trade secret matters. She represents technology companies, financial institutions, and other national and multinational corporations at all stages of civil litigation. She has substantial experience...</p>
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										<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Brantley Webb is an experienced litigator who focuses on complex civil litigation, including commercial disputes, ERISA class action lawsuits, breach of fiduciary duty cases, and trade secret matters. She represents technology companies, financial institutions, and other national and multinational corporations at all stages of civil litigation. She has substantial experience leading cases through discovery—including e-discovery, working with technical and financial experts, and taking and defending high-stakes depositions. She has tried multiple cases in federal court and before commercial arbitration panels and is described in Legal 500 as “masterful in expert battles.”</p>
<p>The post <a href="https://bticonsulting.com/allstars/brantley-webb">Brantley Webb</a> appeared first on <a href="https://bticonsulting.com">The BTI Consulting Group</a>.</p>
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		<title>J.D. Tripoli</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Aug 2026 00:01:50 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>John D. Tripoli focuses his practice on class action, regulatory, and appellate litigation, and defends businesses in all stages of state and federal employment claims, including: Wage and hour putative class action claims Employee misclassification claims Discrimination and harassment claims Restrictive covenants Employment terminations and disciplinary actions EEOC, NLRB, DOL,...</p>
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										<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>John D. Tripoli focuses his practice on class action, regulatory, and appellate litigation, and defends businesses in all stages of state and federal employment claims, including:</p>
<p>Wage and hour putative class action claims<br />
Employee misclassification claims<br />
Discrimination and harassment claims<br />
Restrictive covenants<br />
Employment terminations and disciplinary actions<br />
EEOC, NLRB, DOL, and state civil rights agency investigations<br />
California Private Attorneys&#8217; General Act<br />
Wisconsin wage payment and collection laws</p>
<p>J.D.&#8217;s work has secured victories before the U.S. Supreme Court, the Wisconsin Supreme Court, state and federal appellate courts, and federal district courts nationwide. J.D. also has significant experience counseling global corporations and government entities, including state legislatures and agencies, through complex crises, assertions of federal government authority, regulatory investigations, risk avoidance, and public-relations inquiries.</p>
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		<title>P. Randy Seybold</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Aug 2026 23:59:42 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>Randy Seybold&#8217;s litigation practice focuses on a wide variety of complex commercial disputes and other contested matters. Randy has successfully represented major corporations in the financial services, life insurance, defense, construction, and accounting industries, as well as small businesses, educational institutions, and individuals. He has litigated a wide range of...</p>
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										<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Randy Seybold&#8217;s litigation practice focuses on a wide variety of complex commercial disputes and other contested matters. Randy has successfully represented major corporations in the financial services, life insurance, defense, construction, and accounting industries, as well as small businesses, educational institutions, and individuals. He has litigated a wide range of matters before federal and state courts and in arbitration and mediation, including disputes with federal and state governments regarding improper regulatory action, False Claims Act lawsuits, government contracts disputes, real estate disputes, construction claims, antitrust claims, and allegations of federal and state privacy act violations.</p>
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		<title>Mark C. Fleming</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Aug 2026 23:59:41 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>Mark Fleming is co-chair of WilmerHale&#8217;s Appellate and Supreme Court Litigation Practice. He is an accomplished and well-regarded litigator who has appeared in more than 300 appellate cases and personally presented oral argument in 77 of them, including eight oral arguments before the Supreme Court of the United States. He...</p>
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										<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Mark Fleming is co-chair of WilmerHale&#8217;s Appellate and Supreme Court Litigation Practice. He is an accomplished and well-regarded litigator who has appeared in more than 300 appellate cases and personally presented oral argument in 77 of them, including eight oral arguments before the Supreme Court of the United States. He has also argued before the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, the Massachusetts Appeals Court, and the First, Second, Third, Eighth, Ninth, Tenth, Eleventh, Federal, and District of Columbia Circuits.</p>
<p>A former US Supreme Court clerk, Mr. Fleming has filed briefs in more than 50 US Supreme Court cases on topics such as patent law, immigration, criminal law and constitutional law. Mr. Fleming argues frequently in the Federal Circuit in patent cases involving various technologies and legal issues. In November 2019, he argued three complex Federal Circuit appeals for different clients in four days. In June 2022, he won vacatur of the largest patent infringement judgment in history (over $2.7 billion), which caused Litigation Daily to recognize him as “Litigator of the Week.” In April 2023, he received that honor again as part of the WilmerHale team that convinced the Federal Circuit to vacate a patent infringement judgment of over $500 million. And within a single week in June 2025, the Federal Circuit issued three favorable decisions in appeals Mr. Fleming argued, again overturning patent infringement judgments totaling over $500 million—a victory that earned him his third recognition as “Litigator of the Week.”</p>
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		<title>Colleen A. Mountcastle</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Aug 2025 00:17:09 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>Colleen A. Mountcastle is a partner in Burns White’s Appellate, Mass Torts and Transportation practice groups. She is certified as an Appellate Law Specialist by the Ohio State Bar Association, and represents clients in original, post-trial and appellate proceedings in the Supreme Courts of the United States, Ohio, and Michigan....</p>
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										<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Colleen A. Mountcastle is a partner in Burns White’s Appellate, Mass Torts and Transportation practice groups. She is certified as an Appellate Law Specialist by the Ohio State Bar Association, and represents clients in original, post-trial and appellate proceedings in the Supreme Courts of the United States, Ohio, and Michigan. In addition, Ms. Mountcastle has extensive experience defending railroad companies, transportation companies, manufacturers and suppliers in cases involving personal injury, wrongful death, occupational injury and product liability.</p>
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		<title>John A. Freedman</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Aug 2025 00:17:04 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>John Freedman is Arnold &#038; Porter&#8217;s Senior Pro Bono Counsel and devotes his practice to litigating significant civil rights matters in trial and appellate courts. During his tenure at the firm, John has always maintained a significant pro bono practice. In recent years, he has led teams that successfully challenged...</p>
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										<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>John Freedman is Arnold &#038; Porter&#8217;s Senior Pro Bono Counsel and devotes his practice to litigating significant civil rights matters in trial and appellate courts. During his tenure at the firm, John has always maintained a significant pro bono practice. In recent years, he has led teams that successfully challenged the proposed addition of a citizenship question to the decennial census, the proposed rescission of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA), and the use of a criminal background employment screen by Washington Metro. He was also a member of the trial team in the successful challenge to Pennsylvania&#8217;s gerrymandered congressional map.</p>
<p>Prior to assuming his current position in 2020, John was a partner in Arnold &#038; Porter&#8217;s litigation group, where his practice focused on complex commercial litigation, government investigations, white-collar criminal matters, and parallel proceedings involving simultaneous civil litigation and government investigations. John&#8217;s litigation experience includes representing corporations, accounting firms and accountants, broker-dealers, investment advisers, corporate boards and committees, and individual corporate officers and directors in securities fraud litigation and investigations; representing clients in shareholder derivative and other fiduciary duty litigation; defending corporations in antitrust class actions and merger litigation; and other commercial litigation, including real estate, contract disputes, intellectual property, false advertising, civil rights, employment, and other commercial matters in federal and state courts, as well as in arbitrations.</p>
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		<title>Franz Hardy</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Aug 2025 00:16:31 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>Franz Hardy serves as the Co-Managing Partner of the Denver office. He is a trial attorney with over two decades of experience. He has an active state and federal trial court practice, in addition to handling numerous precedent-setting appeals. Franz works closely with clients to develop a sound legal strategy....</p>
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										<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Franz Hardy serves as the Co-Managing Partner of the Denver office. He is a trial attorney with over two decades of experience. He has an active state and federal trial court practice, in addition to handling numerous precedent-setting appeals.</p>
<p>Franz works closely with clients to develop a sound legal strategy. While recognizing that most cases resolve, he believes that creating an early litigation plan often times results in favorable resolution. This strategy involves the efficient and effective use of pre-trial tools and, if necessary, ultimately prepares the matter for trial.</p>
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