Most appellate cases
Nevada law firms ranked by how many Supreme Court of Nevada, Court of Appeals of Nevada and U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit cases they handled that were decided in 2019, 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 | 1,244 | 1 | 2019 | 92% won of 962 decided cases Won 884Mixed 20Lost 58 |
| 2 | Klinedinst PC | 99 | 3 | 2019 | 82% won of 62 decided cases Won 51Mixed 3Lost 8 |
| 3 | Fennemore Craig, P.C. | 65 | 7 | 2019 | 50% won of 4 decided cases Won 2Mixed 0Lost 2 |
| 4 | Atlas Solomon LLP | 45 | 2 | 2019 | 68% won of 28 decided cases Won 19Mixed 2Lost 7 |
| 5 | Wilson Elser Moskowitz Edelman & Dicker LLP | 38 | 12 | 2019 | 56% won of 18 decided cases Won 10Mixed 1Lost 7 |
| 6 | Akerman LLP | 37 | 2 | 2019 | 81% won of 26 decided cases Won 21Mixed 1Lost 4 |
| 7 | Fox Rothschild LLP | 36 | 2 | 2019 | 71% won of 21 decided cases Won 15Mixed 2Lost 4 |
| 8 | Jackson Lewis P.C. | 32 | 3 | 2019 | 63% won of 16 decided cases Won 10Mixed 1Lost 5 |
| 9 | Hutchison & Steffen | 29 | 15 | 2019 | 44% won of 18 decided cases Won 8Mixed 1Lost 9 |
| 10 | Federal Public Defender, District of Nevada | 28 | 2 | 2019 | 0% won of 26 decided cases Won 0Mixed 0Lost 26 |
| 11 | Claggett & Sykes Trial Lawyers | 26 | 11 | 2019 | 71% won of 17 decided cases Won 12Mixed 1Lost 4 |
| 12 | McDonald Carano LLP | 25 | 11 | 2019 | 45% won of 11 decided cases Won 5Mixed 2Lost 4 |
| 13 | Snell & Wilmer L.L.P. | 25 | 9 | 2019 | 29% won of 14 decided cases Won 4Mixed 1Lost 9 |
| 14 | Litchfield Cavo, LLP | 23 | 3 | 2019 | 73% won of 15 decided cases Won 11Mixed 1Lost 3 |
| 15 | Greenberg Traurig, LLP | 22 | 11 | 2019 | 74% won of 19 decided cases Won 14Mixed 0Lost 5 |
| 16 | Holland & Hart LLP | 21 | 9 | 2019 | 33% won of 12 decided cases Won 4Mixed 1Lost 7 |
| 17 | Womble Bond Dickinson (US) LLP | 18 | 3 | 2019 | 45% won of 11 decided cases Won 5Mixed 0Lost 6 |
| 18 | Wright, Finlay & Zak, LLP | 18 | 5 | 2019 | 86% won of 7 decided cases Won 6Mixed 0Lost 1 |
| 19 | Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck, LLP | 16 | 9 | 2019 | 43% won of 7 decided cases Won 3Mixed 2Lost 2 |
| 20 | Hooks Meng & Clement PLLC | 14 | 7 | 2019 | 33% won of 12 decided cases Won 4Mixed 0Lost 8 |
| 21 | Jones & LoBello | 13 | 3 | 2019 | 63% won of 8 decided cases Won 5Mixed 2Lost 1 |
| 22 | Ballard Spahr LLP | 12 | 2 | 2019 | 75% won of 8 decided cases Won 6Mixed 1Lost 1 |
| 23 | Garin Law Group | 12 | 2 | 2019 | 13% won of 8 decided cases Won 1Mixed 1Lost 6 |
| 24 | Lewis Brisbois Bisgaard & Smith LLP | 12 | 9 | 2019 | 71% won of 7 decided cases Won 5Mixed 0Lost 2 |
| 25 | Ocampo Wiseman Law | 12 | 2 | 2019 | 13% won of 8 decided cases Won 1Mixed 0Lost 7 |
| 26 | Pyatt Silvestri | 12 | 4 | 2019 | 29% won of 7 decided cases Won 2Mixed 1Lost 4 |
| 27 | Kemp Jones, LLP | 11 | 5 | 2019 | 100% won of 3 decided cases Won 3Mixed 0Lost 0 |
| 28 | Olson Cannon & Gormley | 11 | 5 | 2019 | 63% won of 8 decided cases Won 5Mixed 0Lost 3 |
| 29 | Resch Law, PLLC | 11 | 1 | 2019 | 9% won of 11 decided cases Won 1Mixed 1Lost 9 |
| 30 | Howard & Howard Attorneys PLLC | 10 | 7 | 2019 | 100% won of 6 decided cases Won 6Mixed 0Lost 0 |
| 31 | Marquis Aurbach | 10 | 7 | 2019 | 50% won of 4 decided cases Won 2Mixed 0Lost 2 |
| 32 | Alverson Taylor & Sanders | 9 | 4 | 2019 | 50% won of 6 decided cases Won 3Mixed 0Lost 3 |
| 33 | Bailey Kennedy, LLP | 9 | 5 | 2019 | 25% won of 4 decided cases Won 1Mixed 1Lost 2 |
| 34 | Boyack Orme & Murdy | 9 | 2 | 2019 | 100% won of 5 decided cases Won 5Mixed 0Lost 0 |
| 35 | Carter Cullen, PLLC | 9 | 5 | 2019 | 57% won of 7 decided cases Won 4Mixed 0Lost 3 |
| 36 | Gerrard Cox Larsen | 9 | 2 | 2019 | 50% won of 6 decided cases Won 3Mixed 1Lost 2 |
| 37 | Gina Corena & Associates | 9 | 1 | 2019 | 86% won of 7 decided cases Won 6Mixed 0Lost 1 |
| 38 | Pisanelli Bice PLLC | 9 | 4 | 2019 | 75% won of 4 decided cases Won 3Mixed 0Lost 1 |
| 39 | Resnick & Louis, P.C. | 9 | 7 | 2019 | 13% won of 8 decided cases Won 1Mixed 0Lost 7 |
| 40 | Hone Law | 8 | 5 | 2019 | 40% won of 5 decided cases Won 2Mixed 1Lost 2 |
| 41 | Kaempfer Crowell | 8 | 4 | 2019 | 100% won of 4 decided cases Won 4Mixed 0Lost 0 |
| 42 | Las Vegas Defense Group, LLC | 8 | 2 | 2019 | 14% won of 7 decided cases Won 1Mixed 0Lost 6 |
| 43 | Pitaro & Fumo, Chtd. | 8 | 4 | 2019 | 17% won of 6 decided cases Won 1Mixed 0Lost 5 |
| 44 | Thorndal Armstrong, PC | 8 | 7 | 2019 | 60% won of 5 decided cases Won 3Mixed 0Lost 2 |
| 45 | Willick Law Group | 8 | 1 | 2019 | 0% won of 2 decided cases Won 0Mixed 0Lost 2 |
| 46 | Bighorn Law | 7 | 3 | 2019 | 33% won of 6 decided cases Won 2Mixed 0Lost 4 |
| 47 | Bravo Schrager LLP | 7 | 2 | 2019 | 83% won of 6 decided cases Won 5Mixed 0Lost 1 |
| 48 | Carson City District Attorney's Office | 7 | 1 | 2019 | 100% won of 6 decided cases Won 6Mixed 0Lost 0 |
| 49 | Clark Hill | 7 | 6 | 2019 | 60% won of 5 decided cases Won 3Mixed 0Lost 2 |
| 50 | District Attorney Family Support Division | 7 | 4 | 2019 | 43% won of 7 decided cases Won 3Mixed 0Lost 4 |
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.