Eamon P Joyce

Practice Areas

EAMON JOYCE has litigated more than a hundred appeals in courts nationwide. He has handled dozens of appeals in and regularly argues before both the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit and New York State’s appellate courts. He also has argued cases in the D.C., First, Sixth, Ninth, and Eleventh Circuits, as well as other states’ appellate courts, briefed appeals in nearly every federal appeals court, and has filed dozens of briefs in the United States Supreme Court. Eamon’s appeals have addressed a wide range of issues, including Article III standing, federal preemption, federal jurisdiction, class action procedure, the Federal Arbitration Act, antitrust, securities, shareholder rights, administrative law, and constitutional law.

Eamon also regularly serves as a first-chair lawyer in the federal district courts, in cases presenting difficult and novel legal questions. He has argued dispositive motions and against class certification motions, and litigated evidentiary hearings on class certification. He has defended against class actions brought under many different substantive areas of law, and he has significant experience in representing clients on appeal and in district court in cybersecurity and data breach class action litigations.

Eamon serves as the chair of the firmwide Pro Bono and Public Interest Law Committee. In his own pro bono practice, he has litigated many different civil rights issues and has represented criminal defendants on direct appeal and in post-conviction proceedings, including in capital punishment cases.