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Chambers Review

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Litigation: General Commercial: The Elite - USA - Nationwide

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What the Team is Known For

Sidley Austin LLP has a highly acclaimed litigation practice with outstanding expertise across a broad spectrum of commercial disputes and complex class actions, handled from its breadth of offices across the US. The firm demonstrates strength in contractual, securities and intellectual property disputes, among several other areas. It represents domestic and international clients across sectors including healthcare, financial services, energy and manufacturing.

Notable practitioners

Chicago-based David Gordon, Chicago-based Kristen Seeger and Los Angeles-based Rollin Ransom co-lead the firm's commercial litigation and disputes practice.

Work Highlights

  • Sidley Austin LLP represented The Big 12 Conference in several groundbreaking antitrust class actions involving student-athlete compensation issues as related to academic achievement awards, name, image, and likeness (NIL) monetization and so-called “pay for play.”

Strengths

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The speed at which they absorb and understand the matter, which has its complexities, and the way they are able to distill it into easy to understand terms for the judge has been very impressive.

Litigation: General Commercial: The Elite respondent
USA

Sidley Austin has an experienced litigation bench that differentiates itself through its strategic judgment. The team provides well-resourced and thoughtful responses.

Litigation: General Commercial: The Elite respondent
USA

Sidley Austin’s litigation team distinguishes itself through exceptional thoroughness and the consistent depth of talent across all levels. The department effectively mobilizes all relevant resources across offices, disciplines and seniority to ensure comprehensive coverage of the issues. In my experience, few firms match their combination of intellectual rigor, strategic judgment and practical, results-driven execution.

Litigation: General Commercial: The Elite respondent
USA

This is an incredibly thoughtful, analytical team which carefully considers the details that are outcome determinative. It has a calm demeanor in adversarial situations, which gives confidence to court and clients.

Litigation: General Commercial: The Elite respondent
USA

Sidley Austin is very passionate about advocating for its clients and exhausts all avenues to win. Its attorneys are creative and non-stop in their advocacy. The firm really encourages its senior partners to form a very close and deep relationship with its clients and really becomes a trusted advisor as a result, not only on the one matter in question but on all matters.

Litigation: General Commercial: The Elite respondent
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