USA
Practice Areas
Appeals, Issues & Strategy
Business Litigation
Regulatory Compliance & Disputes
Political Law
Career
Sopen Shah is an award-winning writer and experienced oral advocate. She has successfully handled a broad range of complex litigation from trial to appeal, including in the U.S. Supreme Court. Sopen represents global leaders in technology, healthcare, finance, manufacturing, real estate, food, and consumer goods.
Sopen is an adjunct professor at the University of Wisconsin Law School, a Member of the American Law Institute, and a recipient of the State Bar of Wisconsin’s biennial “Best Brief” award. She was a management consultant at McKinsey & Company and a financial analyst at Bloomberg LP before becoming a lawyer.
Professional Memberships
Member, American Law Institute
Treasurer, Appellate Practice Section, State Bar of Wisconsin
Publications
Orders Without Borders: Universal Injunctions in Federal and State Courts, 98 Wisconsin Lawyer 14-18 (Feb. 2025).
Just Follow the Rules and No One Gets Hurt: The Importance of Jurisdictional Statements in the Seventh Circuit, 26 Circuit Rider 24-28 (Apr. 2019).
Expert in these Jurisdictions
Wisconsin
Supreme Court of the United States
U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit
U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit
U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit
U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit
U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit
Education
Yale Law School
J.D.
2012 - 2015
Harvard College
A.B., magna cum laude
2004 - 2008
Awards
Best Brief
State Bar of Wisconsin
2020