Most appellate cases
Nevada law firms ranked by how many Court of Appeals of Nevada cases they handled that were decided in 2018, with how those cases came out. This measures experience on the record, not quality.
| # | Firm | Cases | Attorneys | Years | Results (won / mixed / lost) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | State of Nevada, Office of the Attorney General | 38 | 2 | 2018 | 87% won of 38 decided cases Won 33Mixed 1Lost 4 |
| 2 | Wolfenzon Rolle | 15 | 1 | 2018 | 87% won of 15 decided cases Won 13Mixed 1Lost 1 |
| 3 | Lewis Brisbois Bisgaard & Smith LLP | 10 | 8 | 2018 | 100% won of 7 decided cases Won 7Mixed 0Lost 0 |
| 4 | Marquis Aurbach | 10 | 6 | 2018 | 88% won of 8 decided cases Won 7Mixed 0Lost 1 |
| 5 | Atlas Solomon LLP | 8 | 2 | 2018 | 88% won of 8 decided cases Won 7Mixed 0Lost 1 |
| 6 | Steele LLP | 7 | 1 | 2018 | 29% won of 7 decided cases Won 2Mixed 1Lost 4 |
| 7 | Jones & LoBello | 6 | 3 | 2018 | 67% won of 6 decided cases Won 4Mixed 0Lost 2 |
| 8 | Resch Law, PLLC | 6 | 1 | 2018 | 17% won of 6 decided cases Won 1Mixed 0Lost 5 |
| 9 | Federal Public Defender, District of Nevada | 5 | 1 | 2018 | 20% won of 5 decided cases Won 1Mixed 0Lost 4 |
| 10 | Hofland & Tomsheck | 5 | 1 | 2018 | 20% won of 5 decided cases Won 1Mixed 2Lost 2 |
| 11 | Hooks Meng & Clement PLLC | 5 | 2 | 2018 | 67% won of 3 decided cases Won 2Mixed 0Lost 1 |
| 12 | Hutchison & Steffen | 5 | 5 | 2018 | 40% won of 5 decided cases Won 2Mixed 1Lost 2 |
| 13 | Jackson Lewis P.C. | 5 | 3 | 2018 | 100% won of 5 decided cases Won 5Mixed 0Lost 0 |
| 14 | Maier Gutierrez & Associates | 5 | 4 | 2018 | 40% won of 5 decided cases Won 2Mixed 0Lost 3 |
| 15 | O'Hagan Meyer PLLC | 5 | 2 | 2018 | 20% won of 5 decided cases Won 1Mixed 1Lost 3 |
| 16 | Ace Law Group | 4 | 3 | 2018 | 0% won of 4 decided cases Won 0Mixed 0Lost 4 |
| 17 | Alverson Taylor & Sanders | 4 | 4 | 2018 | 50% won of 4 decided cases Won 2Mixed 0Lost 2 |
| 18 | Carson City District Attorney's Office | 4 | 1 | 2018 | 100% won of 4 decided cases Won 4Mixed 0Lost 0 |
| 19 | Chesnoff & Schonfeld | 4 | 1 | 2018 | 100% won of 4 decided cases Won 4Mixed 0Lost 0 |
| 20 | Christian Morris Trial Attorneys | 4 | 1 | 2018 | 75% won of 4 decided cases Won 3Mixed 0Lost 1 |
| 21 | McDonald Carano LLP | 4 | 6 | 2018 | 50% won of 4 decided cases Won 2Mixed 0Lost 2 |
| 22 | Nye County District Attorney's Office | 4 | 1 | 2018 | 25% won of 4 decided cases Won 1Mixed 2Lost 1 |
| 23 | Pyatt Silvestri | 4 | 3 | 2018 | 33% won of 3 decided cases Won 1Mixed 0Lost 2 |
| 24 | Sgro & Roger, Attorneys at Law | 4 | 1 | 2018 | 0% won of 4 decided cases Won 0Mixed 0Lost 4 |
| 25 | Snell & Wilmer L.L.P. | 4 | 3 | 2018 | 75% won of 4 decided cases Won 3Mixed 0Lost 1 |
| 26 | Thorndal Armstrong, PC | 4 | 3 | 2018 | 50% won of 4 decided cases Won 2Mixed 0Lost 2 |
| 27 | Ballard Spahr LLP | 3 | 1 | 2018 | 33% won of 3 decided cases Won 1Mixed 0Lost 2 |
| 28 | Cloward Trial Lawyers | 3 | 3 | 2018 | 33% won of 3 decided cases Won 1Mixed 0Lost 2 |
| 29 | Fennemore Craig, P.C. | 3 | 2 | 2018 | 33% won of 3 decided cases Won 1Mixed 1Lost 1 |
| 30 | Garman Turner Gordon LLP | 3 | 3 | 2018 | 33% won of 3 decided cases Won 1Mixed 0Lost 2 |
| 31 | Gina Corena & Associates | 3 | 1 | 2018 | 100% won of 3 decided cases Won 3Mixed 0Lost 0 |
| 32 | Greenberg Traurig, LLP | 3 | 3 | 2018 | 67% won of 3 decided cases Won 2Mixed 0Lost 1 |
| 33 | Hawkins Parnell & Young, LLP | 3 | 3 | 2018 | 100% won of 3 decided cases Won 3Mixed 0Lost 0 |
| 34 | Maningo Law | 3 | 2 | 2018 | 67% won of 3 decided cases Won 2Mixed 1Lost 0 |
| 35 | Morgan & Morgan | 3 | 2 | 2018 | 0% won of 3 decided cases Won 0Mixed 0Lost 3 |
| 36 | Resnick & Louis, P.C. | 3 | 3 | 2018 | 50% won of 2 decided cases Won 1Mixed 0Lost 1 |
| 37 | Semenza Rickard Law | 3 | 1 | 2018 | 33% won of 3 decided cases Won 1Mixed 0Lost 2 |
| 38 | Smith Jain | 3 | 2 | 2018 | 33% won of 3 decided cases Won 1Mixed 0Lost 2 |
| 39 | Wilson Elser Moskowitz Edelman & Dicker LLP | 3 | 2 | 2018 | 100% won of 3 decided cases Won 3Mixed 0Lost 0 |
| 40 | Wright Marsh & Levy | 3 | 1 | 2018 | 0% won of 3 decided cases Won 0Mixed 0Lost 3 |
| 41 | Aldridge Pite, LLP | 2 | 1 | 2018 | 50% won of 2 decided cases Won 1Mixed 0Lost 1 |
| 42 | Anderson Keuscher Brachmann | 2 | 2 | 2018 | 0% won of 2 decided cases Won 0Mixed 1Lost 1 |
| 43 | Barney McKenna & Olmstead, P.C. | 2 | 1 | 2018 | 100% won of 2 decided cases Won 2Mixed 0Lost 0 |
| 44 | Black & Wadhams | 2 | 1 | 2018 | 50% won of 2 decided cases Won 1Mixed 0Lost 1 |
| 45 | Brandon | Smerber Law Firm | 2 | 2 | 2018 | 100% won of 2 decided cases Won 2Mixed 0Lost 0 |
| 46 | Bravo Schrager LLP | 2 | 1 | 2018 | 100% won of 1 decided case Won 1Mixed 0Lost 0 |
| 47 | Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck, LLP | 2 | 2 | 2018 | 100% won of 2 decided cases Won 2Mixed 0Lost 0 |
| 48 | Carter Cullen, PLLC | 2 | 2 | 2018 | 100% won of 1 decided case Won 1Mixed 0Lost 0 |
| 49 | City of Henderson City Attorney's Office | 2 | 3 | 2018 | 50% won of 2 decided cases Won 1Mixed 0Lost 1 |
| 50 | Clark Hill | 2 | 2 | 2018 | 50% won of 2 decided cases Won 1Mixed 0Lost 1 |
How these numbers are computed
Where the data comes from. Published decisions and unpublished dispositional orders of the Supreme Court of Nevada and Court of Appeals of Nevada, with each case's parties and their lawyers taken from the courts' public case records. We match lawyer names to the bar roll and only count confident matches. Case data via YourNevadaJudges.com. U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit cases come from the public RECAP Archive on CourtListener (Free Law Project) and cover only the Nevada-origin dockets already in that archive, so the federal count is partial.
Cases counts each case once, no matter how many filings it had. Heads of government law offices (district attorneys, the attorney general, public defenders) are listed on every case their office handles, which is why they lead the table.
Results. Won means the court ruled the way that lawyer's side asked. Mixed means the court agreed in part. The percentage is won divided by all decided cases (won, mixed, and lost). Cases that were dismissed for procedural reasons, or where we could not determine the result, are not counted.
Read the percentage with care. Appellate courts uphold far more rulings than they overturn. A lawyer who mostly defends rulings will naturally show a higher won-share than one who mostly challenges them, and prosecutors mostly defend. Hover over a Results cell for the split between challenging and defending. Coverage of unpublished orders is still being extended, so counts for some lawyers will grow.
Firm view credits a case to the firm where the lawyer works today, even if the lawyer was elsewhere when the case was decided.