Most appellate cases
Nevada law firms ranked by how many Supreme Court 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 | Klinedinst PC | 48 | 2 | 2018 | 66% won of 32 decided cases Won 21Mixed 2Lost 9 |
| 2 | Atlas Solomon LLP | 38 | 2 | 2018 | 59% won of 27 decided cases Won 16Mixed 0Lost 11 |
| 3 | State of Nevada, Office of the Attorney General | 38 | 1 | 2018 | 80% won of 20 decided cases Won 16Mixed 0Lost 4 |
| 4 | Hutchison & Steffen | 24 | 11 | 2018 | 64% won of 11 decided cases Won 7Mixed 0Lost 4 |
| 5 | Holland & Hart LLP | 22 | 6 | 2018 | 27% won of 15 decided cases Won 4Mixed 2Lost 9 |
| 6 | Claggett & Sykes Trial Lawyers | 21 | 7 | 2018 | 38% won of 13 decided cases Won 5Mixed 3Lost 5 |
| 7 | Fox Rothschild LLP | 20 | 3 | 2018 | 31% won of 13 decided cases Won 4Mixed 0Lost 9 |
| 8 | Litchfield Cavo, LLP | 20 | 2 | 2018 | 50% won of 12 decided cases Won 6Mixed 2Lost 4 |
| 9 | Greenberg Traurig, LLP | 19 | 8 | 2018 | 36% won of 14 decided cases Won 5Mixed 1Lost 8 |
| 10 | Womble Bond Dickinson (US) LLP | 19 | 3 | 2018 | 42% won of 12 decided cases Won 5Mixed 2Lost 5 |
| 11 | Ballard Spahr LLP | 17 | 2 | 2018 | 22% won of 9 decided cases Won 2Mixed 0Lost 7 |
| 12 | Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck, LLP | 17 | 6 | 2018 | 64% won of 11 decided cases Won 7Mixed 1Lost 3 |
| 13 | Jackson Lewis P.C. | 17 | 2 | 2018 | 40% won of 15 decided cases Won 6Mixed 1Lost 8 |
| 14 | Wolfenzon Rolle | 17 | 1 | 2018 | 100% won of 1 decided case Won 1Mixed 0Lost 0 |
| 15 | Fennemore Craig, P.C. | 16 | 5 | 2018 | 50% won of 6 decided cases Won 3Mixed 1Lost 2 |
| 16 | Marquis Aurbach | 16 | 8 | 2018 | 67% won of 6 decided cases Won 4Mixed 0Lost 2 |
| 17 | Snell & Wilmer L.L.P. | 15 | 10 | 2018 | 44% won of 9 decided cases Won 4Mixed 0Lost 5 |
| 18 | Akerman LLP | 14 | 1 | 2018 | 75% won of 8 decided cases Won 6Mixed 0Lost 2 |
| 19 | McDonald Carano LLP | 14 | 12 | 2018 | 75% won of 8 decided cases Won 6Mixed 0Lost 2 |
| 20 | Alverson Taylor & Sanders | 11 | 4 | 2018 | 33% won of 6 decided cases Won 2Mixed 0Lost 4 |
| 21 | Jones & LoBello | 10 | 2 | 2018 | 50% won of 4 decided cases Won 2Mixed 0Lost 2 |
| 22 | Pisanelli Bice PLLC | 10 | 4 | 2018 | 38% won of 8 decided cases Won 3Mixed 1Lost 4 |
| 23 | Wilson Elser Moskowitz Edelman & Dicker LLP | 10 | 6 | 2018 | 40% won of 5 decided cases Won 2Mixed 0Lost 3 |
| 24 | Federal Public Defender, District of Nevada | 9 | 2 | 2018 | 0% won of 6 decided cases Won 0Mixed 0Lost 6 |
| 25 | Hooks Meng & Clement PLLC | 9 | 5 | 2018 | 0% won of 1 decided case Won 0Mixed 0Lost 1 |
| 26 | Steele LLP | 9 | 1 | 2018 | 0% won of 1 decided case Won 0Mixed 0Lost 1 |
| 27 | Wright, Finlay & Zak, LLP | 9 | 5 | 2018 | 100% won of 5 decided cases Won 5Mixed 0Lost 0 |
| 28 | Gerrard Cox Larsen | 8 | 2 | 2018 | 100% won of 4 decided cases Won 4Mixed 0Lost 0 |
| 29 | Pyatt Silvestri | 8 | 2 | 2018 | 100% won of 2 decided cases Won 2Mixed 0Lost 0 |
| 30 | Clark Hill | 7 | 5 | 2018 | 50% won of 4 decided cases Won 2Mixed 0Lost 2 |
| 31 | Howard & Howard Attorneys PLLC | 7 | 7 | 2018 | 17% won of 6 decided cases Won 1Mixed 0Lost 5 |
| 32 | King Scow Koch Durham LLC | 7 | 4 | 2018 | 86% won of 7 decided cases Won 6Mixed 0Lost 1 |
| 33 | Leach Kern Gruchow Anderson Song | 7 | 4 | 2018 | 60% won of 5 decided cases Won 3Mixed 0Lost 2 |
| 34 | Smith & Shapiro, PLLC | 7 | 2 | 2018 | 20% won of 5 decided cases Won 1Mixed 2Lost 2 |
| 35 | Campbell & Williams | 6 | 3 | 2018 | 40% won of 5 decided cases Won 2Mixed 0Lost 3 |
| 36 | Lewis Brisbois Bisgaard & Smith LLP | 6 | 6 | 2018 | 60% won of 5 decided cases Won 3Mixed 0Lost 2 |
| 37 | Maningo Law | 6 | 2 | 2018 | 25% won of 4 decided cases Won 1Mixed 0Lost 3 |
| 38 | Ogletree, Deakins, Nash, Smoak & Stewart, P.C. | 6 | 1 | 2018 | 0% won of 6 decided cases Won 0Mixed 0Lost 6 |
| 39 | Oronoz & Ericsson Injury Lawyers | 6 | 1 | 2018 | 0% won of 4 decided cases Won 0Mixed 0Lost 4 |
| 40 | Reno City Attorney | 6 | 4 | 2018 | 100% won of 2 decided cases Won 2Mixed 0Lost 0 |
| 41 | Richard Harris Law Firm | 6 | 4 | 2018 | 100% won of 1 decided case Won 1Mixed 0Lost 0 |
| 42 | Shinnick & Ryan NV P.C. | 6 | 2 | 2018 | 0% won of 6 decided cases Won 0Mixed 0Lost 6 |
| 43 | Willick Law Group | 6 | 1 | 2018 | 33% won of 3 decided cases Won 1Mixed 1Lost 1 |
| 44 | Garin Law Group | 5 | 4 | 2018 | 67% won of 3 decided cases Won 2Mixed 0Lost 1 |
| 45 | Garman Turner Gordon LLP | 5 | 4 | 2018 | 50% won of 2 decided cases Won 1Mixed 0Lost 1 |
| 46 | Gina Corena & Associates | 5 | 1 | 2018 | No decided cases |
| 47 | O'Hagan Meyer PLLC | 5 | 1 | 2018 | 33% won of 3 decided cases Won 1Mixed 0Lost 2 |
| 48 | Thorndal Armstrong, PC | 5 | 3 | 2018 | 75% won of 4 decided cases Won 3Mixed 0Lost 1 |
| 49 | Black & Wadhams | 4 | 1 | 2018 | 0% won of 2 decided cases Won 0Mixed 0Lost 2 |
| 50 | Bravo Schrager LLP | 4 | 2 | 2018 | 67% won of 3 decided cases Won 2Mixed 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.