Linda T Coberly

Practice Areas

Linda Coberly is a business litigator and leads the firm’s Appellate and Critical Motions Practice. She is known for her strong business sense, clear briefs, and compelling oral advocacy. She counsels clients on appellate and strategic issues at all stages of litigation, from before trial through and including proceedings before the U.S. Supreme Court. She has argued more than 50 appeals, spanning eight different federal courts of appeals and a variety of state appellate and supreme courts. She leads strategic, motions-intensive litigation matters at the trial court level and has served as in an appellate-lawyer-at-trial capacity in trial courts around the country.

Linda has extensive experience in class actions and fraud litigation—and, in particular, in defending issuers, auditors, and others in tort and securities actions that include allegations of fraud. These cases frequently implicate complex issues of pleading, class certification, agency law, damages, standing, and loss causation—as well as the doctrine of in pari delicto, which arises when a corporation, trustee, or receiver attempts to sue a third party based on a fraud committed by the corporation’s own management. She also has an active practice in constitutional, administrative, and antitrust litigation.

A significant portion of Linda’s practice centers on advising and representing clients with respect to proceedings in the U.S. Supreme Court, drawing on her experience as a law clerk to Justice Stephen G. Breyer on the Supreme Court and to Judge Douglas H. Ginsburg on the D.C. Circuit. She recently served as lead appellate lawyer and led the briefing in the firm’s 9-0 victory for a class of student-athletes in their antitrust challenge to the NCAA’s amateurism rules.