Our annual Appellate Hot List recognizes firms that made exemplary contributions to appellate practice during the past year. We asked our readers to nominate firms with at least one significant appellate victory since January 2010 and that had demonstrated an impressive track record overall. We supplemented this material with our own extensive research to arrive upon the 17 firms listed here. We understand that appellate victories frequently are collaborations, and regret that we lack space to fully recognize all the firms that contributed to the cases listed. We highlighted cases that affected the course of industries, vindicated important constitutional rights, and in which an awful lot of money was at stake. We gave extra weight to cases in which the firms pulled off come-from-behind wins.

THE 2011 APPELLATE HOT LIST