Michael B Kimberly

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Michael co-chairs the Firm’s Appellate and Critical Motions practice. He has argued more than 50 appeals in federal and state courts all across the country in matters of constitutional, administrative, ERISA, antitrust, criminal, banking, taxation, copyright, trademark, and labor and employment law. Michael’s appellate experience includes ten arguments before the Supreme Court of the United States, four arguments before the federal courts of appeals sitting en banc, and scores of additional arguments before every regional federal court of appeals and several state supreme courts. Across the 50-plus appeals that he has argued, all in private practice, Michael’s win record is better than two-for-three.

Michael is widely recognized as a leader of the Supreme Court bar. He was the youngest lawyer recognized as one of the “elite cadre of lawyers” who “dominate the Supreme Court bar” in Joan Biscupic’s 2014 special report for Reuters, The Echo Chamber. In the years since, his success litigating before the Supreme Court has earned him repeated recognition in various academic articles devoted to Supreme Court advocacy, including The Inside Track and The Elitification of the U.S. Supreme Court and Appellate Lawyering. Michael has also been ranked nationally by The Legal 500 since 2017 and Chambers USA since 2021 for his appellate work, having been praised as a “brilliant writer” and “incredibly strategic thinker.”