Lisa Blatt serves as Chair of Williams & Connolly’s Supreme Court and Appellate practice. Lisa has argued 54 cases before the United States Supreme Court and has an 83% win rate in cases decided. The National Law Journal has called her a “visionary” and one of “the 100 most influential lawyers in America.” Bloomberg has described her as a “legendary high court litigator,” while The National Journal likewise has referred to her as a “SCOTUS legend.” In 2021, The American Lawyer recognized Lisa as the “Litigator of the Year.” Lisa’s appellate work has been highlighted by multiple publications and has earned her rankings in Chambers USA, Benchmark Litigation, The Legal 500, and Washingtonian magazine. Lisa was selected as one of the “Top 10 Women in Litigation” in the United States by Benchmark Litigation (2020-2024). Managing IP named her the 2021 “Practitioner of the Year (Appellate)” for her work as lead counsel to Booking.com before the Supreme Court. In 2021, Chambers USA reported that clients describe Lisa as “one of the best advocates today. She is extremely strong on her feet, connects with judges and has an unmatched win record,” and her “command of the case law and the way she presents is a work of art.”
Lisa has substantial experience with trademark and copyright law and the pharmaceutical industry. She has secured four recent Supreme Court victories for the rights of trademark and copyright holders. Her Supreme Court cases also have addressed a broad range of other issues, involving First Amendment, arbitration, antitrust, civil procedure, preemption, employment and ERISA, and bankruptcy.
Mr. Edlin is Vice Chair of Greenberg Traurig. He Chairs both the Litigation Practice in New York and the Business & Regulatory Financial Services Litigation Group and serves as a member of the firm’s executive committee. First and foremost, he is a trial lawyer with broad experience in both trial and appellate courts, including the U.S. Supreme Court and the Delaware Supreme Court. He has successfully tried numerous cases in federal and state courts all over the country and has handled a variety of domestic and international arbitrations. He has testified before both Congress and the Commerce Department in the course of representing his clients and has represented various public figures, including two U.S. Senators.
Mr. Edlin is a Fellow of the American College of Trial Lawyers, the preeminent organization of trial lawyers in North America. Mr. Edlin is described in Chambers and Partners as “brilliant” and “one of the best trial lawyers I have ever seen,” possessing a “broad range of knowledge” and “a wonderful ability to prepare witnesses.” The Legal 500 says that Rich is “imperturbable, polished and prepared” and “never ceases to impress. If you’re trying a bet-the-company case, you want Rich to be your first chair trial lawyer.” In 2019, The National Law Journal recognized Mr. Edlin as a “Master of the Courtroom.” Mr. Edlin has earned numerous accolades for his role as a leading litigator and corporate adviser. He is the 2020 recipient of the John J. McCloy Award from the Fund for the Modern Courts, a fellow of the American Bar Foundation, a Fellow of the New York Bar Foundation, a Fellow of the New York Academy of Trial Lawyers, a commissioner on the Chief Judge’s Commission for the Reimagining of the New York Courts and chair of the subcommittee on Future Trials, a member of the Board of Trustees of the Historical Society of the New York Courts, a member of the Board of Trustees of the Urban Justice Center, a member of the Board of Directors for Judges and Lawyers Breast Cancer Alert, a trustee of The Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs, a member of the Board of Governors of Tel Aviv University, a Fellow of the Litigation Council of America, and a trustee of New Jersey SEEDS, which is dedicated to promoting the educational opportunities for economically disadvantaged youth in New Jersey. Mr. Edlin frequently speaks and writes on legal topics and is the author of the chapter on Cross-Examination in Commercial Litigation in the New York Courts (Fifth Edition) for which he received the Conspicuous Service Award from the New York County Lawyers Association, the co-author of the chapter on Expert Witnesses in Successful Partnering Between Inside and Outside Counsel, and the co-author of Discovery Strategy in Business and Commercial Litigation in Federal Courts.
Mr. Edlin handles a wide variety of litigation and routinely acts for companies and their management in areas such as securities, general commercial and contractual disputes, antitrust, and intellectual property. He is currently handling complex litigation matters for leading financial institutions; intellectual property and class action litigation for major electronics/consumer manufacturers; contract disputes with leading pharmaceutical companies; various antitrust investigations; and numerous disputes of all kinds for individual clients of the firm.
Mr. Edlin received his B.A. degree from Tufts University, magna cum laude in history, was a varsity athlete and the winner of the New Jersey Rhodes Scholarship competition. He received his law degree from Columbia University School of Law, where he was a Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar and Notes editor of the Columbia Journal of Environmental Law. Following his graduation, Mr. Edlin served as law clerk to Hon. Lee P. Gagliardi of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York.
Koji focuses on complex commercial litigation, including the defense of securities class actions, derivative suits, M&A-related class actions, and government investigations. He also regularly conducts internal investigations for boards, as well as for their audit or special litigation committees. Chambers USA has noted Koji as “practical, business-savvy and strategic,” with “great advocacy skills” and a “wonderful leadership presence.” Koji is a former member of Cooley’s board of directors and a past chair of the firm’s securities litigation practice. He is also a past chair of the American Bar Association’s Litigation Section and an immediate-past member of the ABA’s Board of Governors, along with its Audit and Finance Committee and the Standing Committee on Audit.
Koji has defended 100+ shareholder representative matters, including securities class actions, derivative suits, M&A class actions, and breach of fiduciary duty class actions. His practice includes representing companies such as Qualcomm, GNC Holdings, IonQ, FIGS, Stratasys, Horizon Therapeutics, Illumina, Tandem Diabetes, GoDaddy, and The Honest Company.
Koji frequently leads internal investigations for boards and their audit or special committees. He also counsels public companies, directors, officers and principal shareholders on a wide range of issues relating to corporate governance, antitrust/unfair competition, the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA), Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) enforcement, insider trading, and disclosure obligations under – and compliance with – federal and state securities laws.
One of the most prominent lawyers in the US, Adam maintains a trial, investigations, and counseling practice focused on bet-the-company matters. Described as “the best of the best” in Chambers USA, The American Lawyer named him “Litigator of the Year” in 2023 and 2021.
Uniquely versatile, Adam is the only lawyer recognized by Chambers USA for each of Securities Litigation, Antitrust Litigation, and Financial Services Enforcement and Investigations.
Adam is also one of only four lawyers in New York recognized by Chambers USA as a “Star Performer” for Securities Litigation, a special designation above Band 1. Law360 has selected Adam for its prestigious “MVP” recognition five years in a row. Forbes named Adam one of America’s “Top 200 Lawyers,” Benchmark Litigation has named him its sole “Securities Lawyer of the Year” four times, and The Legal 500 has named him to its “Hall of Fame.”
Adam represents corporations, directors, executives, special committees, financial institutions and asset managers in their highest stakes matters at trial and on appeal, in internal investigations, and before government enforcers, especially the DOJ, SEC, CFTC, state attorneys general, bank regulators and FINRA. Adam has a particularly deep focus on cases and investigations involving securities, corporate governance, M&A, antitrust and competition, derivatives and commodities, insider trading, SPACs, financial disclosure and accounting, trading and investment banking regulation, general commercial matters, and insolvency.
Christopher J. Meade is the General Counsel and Chief Legal Officer of BlackRock. A member of the Global Executive Committee, he leads the Legal & Compliance group. Chris was recently honored at the Society’s 50th Anniversary Gala for his commitment to the legal profession and the community.
Before joining BlackRock, Mr. Meade was the General Counsel of the U.S. Department of the Treasury. At Treasury, he provided legal and policy counseling to the Treasury Secretary and other senior Treasury officials on a wide range of issues, relating to domestic finance, international economic affairs, terrorism finance, financial crimes enforcement, and tax policy. He was also the head of the Treasury Legal Division, a separate bureau within the Treasury that includes all legal counsel of the Treasury Department. Mr. Meade received the Alexander Hamilton Award, the Treasury Department’s highest honor.
Before joining Treasury, Mr. Meade was a partner with the law firm of Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr, where he was a member of the Litigation and Securities Departments, as well as the Appellate and Supreme Court Litigation Group. While at WilmerHale, he argued four cases before the U.S. Supreme Court. Earlier in his career, Mr. Meade served as a law clerk to Justice John Paul Stevens on the U.S. Supreme Court and Judge Harry T. Edwards of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit.
Mr. Meade is a Life Trustee of NYU Law School and a member of the Board of Mobilization for Justice, which provides legal services to low-income New Yorkers. He received his A.B. from Princeton University, magna cum laude, and his J.D. from NYU Law School, magna cum laude, where he was the Editor-in-Chief of the Law Review.
Morgan Ratner is a partner in Sullivan & Cromwell’s Litigation Group and is a member of the Firm’s Supreme Court and Appellate Practice. She has argued nine cases before the U.S. Supreme Court.
Before joining the Firm, Ms. Ratner served in the Office of the Solicitor General at the U.S. Department of Justice. During her tenure there, she argued Supreme Court cases involving areas of federal law such as securities regulation, bankruptcy, employment, intellectual property, criminal law, and elections law. While at the Solicitor General’s Office, Ms. Ratner also filed over 150 Supreme Court briefs at the merits and certiorari stages. She received a John Marshall Award, the Department of Justice’s highest award offered to attorneys, for exceptional service to the Office of the Solicitor General and the Department of Justice.
In private practice, Ms. Ratner regularly briefs and argues appeals and dispositive motions; provides strategic guidance for trial and administrative proceedings; and counsels clients confronting high-stakes legal issues. She has had particular success helping clients navigate and challenge federal regulations. The American Lawyer named her the 2024 Young Lawyer of the Year: Litigation, and Law360 recently profiled her as one of “12 Lawyers Who Are The Future Of The Supreme Court Bar.”
After graduating Harvard Law School—where she was awarded the Fay Diploma as the top student in her class—Ms. Ratner clerked for Chief Justice John G. Roberts, Jr. of the U.S. Supreme Court and then-Judge Brett M. Kavanaugh of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit. She is a member of the Edward Coke Appellate Inn of Court and is a volunteer with Street Law, Inc.
Jonathan Turley is a nationally recognized legal scholar who has written extensively in areas ranging from constitutional law to legal theory to tort law. After a stint at Tulane Law School, Professor Turley joined the GW Law faculty in 1990, and in 1998, became the youngest chaired professor in the school’s history.
He is the founder and executive director of the Project for Older Prisoners (POPS). He has written more than three dozen academic articles that have appeared in a variety of leading law journals including those of Cornell, Duke, Georgetown, Harvard, and Northwestern Universities, among others. He most recently completed a three-part study of the historical and constitutional evolution of the military system.
Professor Turley has served as counsel in some of the most notable cases in the last two decades, including his representation of the Area 51 workers at a secret air base in Nevada; the nuclear couriers at Oak Ridge, Tennessee; the Rocky Flats grand jury in Colorado; Dr. Eric Foretich, the husband in the Elizabeth Morgan custody controversy; and four former U.S. Attorney Generals during the Clinton impeachment litigation. Professor Turley also has served as counsel in a variety of national security and terrorism cases, and has been ranked as one of the top 10 lawyers handling military cases.
He has served as a consultant on homeland security and constitutional issues, and is a frequent witness before the House and Senate on constitutional and statutory issues as well as tort reform legislation. He is also a nationally recognized legal commentator; he ranked 38th in the top 100 most cited ‘public intellectuals’ in a recent study by Judge Richard Posner and was found to be the second most cited law professor in the country.
He is a member of the USA Today board of contributors and the recipient of the “2005 Single Issue Advocate of the Year” – the annual opinion award for the Aspen Institute and The Week magazine. More than 400 of his articles on legal and policy issues regularly appear in national newspapers. He has also worked as the CBS and NBC legal analyst, respectively, during national controversies.
Professor Derek A. Webb is an Assistant Professor of Law at the Catholic University of America Columbus School of Law. He writes and teaches in the fields of constitutional law, federal courts, civil and criminal procedure, legal history, and American political thought. His articles have appeared or are forthcoming in the University of Notre Dame Law Review, the University of Pennsylvania Journal of Constitutional Law, the Journal of Supreme Court History, Law and History Review, the American Journal of Legal History, and the Encyclopedia of the Supreme Court, among other publications. He served as a Supreme Court Fellow in the Office of the Counselor to Chief Justice John G. Roberts and clerked for Chief Judge Jeffrey S. Sutton on the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit. Before entering academia, he was a senior managing associate at Sidley Austin in their Supreme Court and Appellate Practice Group and was consistently listed as “One to Watch” for Appellate Litigation in Best Lawyers of Washington, D.C. Magazine. Webb is the recipient of both the Warren Burger Prize and the Sandra Day O’Connor Award for Professional Service from the American Inns of Court. And he was recently voted the most outstanding professor for 1L classes by his students at CUA. He is a graduate of Georgetown University Law Center, the University of Notre Dame (Ph.D. in political theory), and Yale University.