Our runner-ups this week are repeat players: Two firms whose trial court work we previously highlighted got those wins to stand up on appeal.

A pro bono team from Latham & Watkins got their bench trial win in a voting rights case from earlier in the year affirmed by the Second Circuit on Wednesday. The team previously convinced U.S. District Judge Cathy Seibel that the East Ramapo Central School District's at-large method of electing school board members violated the Voting Rights Act by denying black and Latino citizens in the district an equal opportunity to elect candidates of their choice. The Latham team included associate Charles Dameron, who argued the appeal, partner Andrew Clubok, and associates Corey Calabrese and Russ Mangas.

And a Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr team representing luxury watchmaker Omega SA and its parent company Swatch buttressed a jury verdict from last March in the Southern District of New York which found a landlord in Manhattan liable for contributory trademark infringement after its building had been used for years in counterfeiting activity. As we previously noted, that win was extra-impressive since the Wilmer team had to clean up the mess after Swatch's prior counsel was found to have filed false declarations in opposition to a motion for summary judgment. The Second Circuit on Wednesday upheld the verdict of $1.1 million in statutory and a permanent injunction. Wilmer's Christopher Noyes, Robert Gunther Jr., Thomas Saunders and Isley Gostin represented the watch companies.