Practice Areas
Shay Dvoretzky is a partner at Skadden and the head of the firm’s Supreme Court and Appellate Practice. He represents clients in a wide range of appellate matters in the U.S. Supreme Court, federal courts of appeals, and state appellate courts. He has argued 21 cases before the Supreme Court and scores more across all the federal courts of appeals. His work has spanned many substantive areas, including constitutional and administrative law, antitrust, arbitration, bankruptcy, labor and employment, ERISA, tax, telecommunications, securities, preemption, energy, intellectual property, federal Indian law, and criminal defense, as well as various complex statutory questions. He also leverages his appellate experience to counsel clients on key strategic issues at the trial level, brief and argue dispositive motions with an eye toward appeal, and bring constitutional and statutory challenges to federal, state, and local laws.
Career
Law Clerk, Justice Antonin Scalia, U.S. Supreme Court (2001-02); Law Clerk, Hon. J. Michael Luttig, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit (2000-01); J.D., Yale Law School, 2000; B.A., Yale University, 1995