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Litigation: General Commercial: The Elite - District of Columbia

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What the Team is Known For

Latham & Watkins LLP has an impressive team that features a number of prominent practitioners with considerable government experience and trial expertise. The firm offers real strength in a number of areas, including in environmental and toxic tort litigation, FCA violations and insurance coverage disputes. It also boasts a stellar securities practice with significant experience in high-profile shareholder class actions. The team frequently represents clients across a diverse range of sectors, including highly regulated industries such as financial services, healthcare and energy. It fields substantial expertise in matters with cross-border elements, with support from the firm's international offices.

Work Highlights

  • Latham & Watkins successfully obtained a dismissal with prejudice on behalf of X (formerly Twitter, Inc.) of a class action complaint filed in San Francisco Superior Court that alleged Twitter improperly used contact information for advertising where users had provided that information for security. 

Strengths

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They have experts in many fields to address specific matters, are able to tackle multiple, complex issues and maintain a business perspective by providing advice to address commercial issues.

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Latham's attorneys are unbelievably thorough, responsive and creative in their legal strategies.

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They have a good understanding of our issues and the laws we're looking at. Because of that, they're able to help us frame the questions we need to frame to get the answers.

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Notable Practitioners

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Susan E Engel
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Susan E Engel
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Susan Engel is an experienced securities litigator noted for her strength representing issuers and their officers and directors before state and federal courts.

She's one of the top women in securities law. She can take cases from cradle to grave and clients are happy for her to do that.

Susan Engel is an excellent lawyer. She has a great ability in this space and is a trusted partner.

Susan is a really strong writer.

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Abid R Qureshi
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Abid R Qureshi
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Abid Qureshi is well regarded in the market for his extensive skills in civil litigation. His expertise spans across healthcare fraud, international arbitration, securities class actions and FCA cases.

Abid is extremely talented and wonderful to work with.

Abid is smart, creative and professional.

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Nicholas J Boyle
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Nicholas J Boyle
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Nicholas Boyle, vice-chair of Latham & Watkins' complex commercial litigation practice, is noted for his skills in handling complex commercial litigation, with experience in intellectual property and securities cases.

Nick has strong business sense.

He provided leadership which is important across states, state court and federal court. He's a great advocate.

I have appreciated his creativity in understanding our business imperatives.

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Stephen Barry
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Stephen Barry
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Stephen Barry is building a robust and versatile securities practice. He has expertise in complex securities class actions and also has experience in representing individuals in securities litigation.

Steve has a lot of great experience. I think he's got great depth of experience representing public companies to the SEC. He's a good oral advocate.

Steve is very smart, thoughtful, gives great counsel, and is reliable and responsive.

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Litigation: General Commercial
Abid R Qureshi
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Abid R Qureshi
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Nicholas J Boyle
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Nicholas J Boyle
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Litigation: Securities
Susan E Engel
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Susan E Engel
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Stephen Barry
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Stephen Barry
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