The firm has once again been named to The National Law Journal’s “Appellate Hot List.” This year the firm won several game-changing appellate victories. It led client Shell Oil to a 9-0 victory in the U.S. Supreme Court in a landmark ruling limiting Alien Tort Statute lawsuits against companies doing business in foreign nations. In the Federal Circuit, the firm won a vacation of a preliminary injunction that had been entered against Samsung’s Galaxy Nexus smartphone. In the Ninth Circuit, the firm won reversal of a $172.5 million trade-secret verdict on behalf of client Mattel Inc. And in the Second Circuit, the firm obtained a key reversal of a decision holding that a federal court had jurisdiction over American International Group Inc.’s suit against Bank of America Corp. covering mortgage-backed securities.