Most appellate cases
Nevada law firms ranked by how many Supreme Court of Nevada cases they handled that were decided in 2023, 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 | 376 | 4 | 2023 | 89% won of 188 decided cases Won 168Mixed 3Lost 17 |
| 2 | Hutchison & Steffen | 24 | 19 | 2023 | 30% won of 10 decided cases Won 3Mixed 1Lost 6 |
| 3 | Claggett & Sykes Trial Lawyers | 23 | 13 | 2023 | 79% won of 14 decided cases Won 11Mixed 1Lost 2 |
| 4 | Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck, LLP | 22 | 11 | 2023 | 46% won of 13 decided cases Won 6Mixed 4Lost 3 |
| 5 | Womble Bond Dickinson (US) LLP | 20 | 8 | 2023 | 50% won of 14 decided cases Won 7Mixed 3Lost 4 |
| 6 | Marquis Aurbach | 19 | 12 | 2023 | 67% won of 12 decided cases Won 8Mixed 1Lost 3 |
| 7 | Greenberg Traurig, LLP | 18 | 9 | 2023 | 57% won of 14 decided cases Won 8Mixed 0Lost 6 |
| 8 | Holland & Hart LLP | 18 | 7 | 2023 | 50% won of 12 decided cases Won 6Mixed 3Lost 3 |
| 9 | Lewis Brisbois Bisgaard & Smith LLP | 17 | 9 | 2023 | 36% won of 11 decided cases Won 4Mixed 0Lost 7 |
| 10 | Wright, Finlay & Zak, LLP | 14 | 5 | 2023 | 75% won of 4 decided cases Won 3Mixed 0Lost 1 |
| 11 | Atlas Solomon LLP | 13 | 3 | 2023 | 75% won of 8 decided cases Won 6Mixed 0Lost 2 |
| 12 | Garin Law Group | 13 | 3 | 2023 | 100% won of 8 decided cases Won 8Mixed 0Lost 0 |
| 13 | Nye County District Attorney's Office | 13 | 4 | 2023 | 71% won of 7 decided cases Won 5Mixed 0Lost 2 |
| 14 | Wilson Elser Moskowitz Edelman & Dicker LLP | 13 | 7 | 2023 | 17% won of 6 decided cases Won 1Mixed 0Lost 5 |
| 15 | Snell & Wilmer L.L.P. | 12 | 11 | 2023 | 50% won of 2 decided cases Won 1Mixed 1Lost 0 |
| 16 | District Attorney Family Support Division | 11 | 1 | 2023 | 100% won of 8 decided cases Won 8Mixed 0Lost 0 |
| 17 | Murchison & Cumming, LLP | 10 | 1 | 2023 | 50% won of 6 decided cases Won 3Mixed 1Lost 2 |
| 18 | Akerman LLP | 9 | 2 | 2023 | 83% won of 6 decided cases Won 5Mixed 0Lost 1 |
| 19 | Fennemore Craig, P.C. | 9 | 6 | 2023 | 100% won of 1 decided case Won 1Mixed 0Lost 0 |
| 20 | Hooks Meng & Clement PLLC | 9 | 4 | 2023 | 0% won of 2 decided cases Won 0Mixed 0Lost 2 |
| 21 | McDonald Carano LLP | 9 | 10 | 2023 | 0% won of 2 decided cases Won 0Mixed 1Lost 1 |
| 22 | Africa Sanchez Law | 8 | 1 | 2023 | 20% won of 5 decided cases Won 1Mixed 0Lost 4 |
| 23 | Cogburn Davidson Injury Lawyers | 8 | 3 | 2023 | 67% won of 6 decided cases Won 4Mixed 0Lost 2 |
| 24 | Robertson, Johnson, Miller & Williamson | 8 | 4 | 2023 | 33% won of 3 decided cases Won 1Mixed 0Lost 2 |
| 25 | Chesnoff & Schonfeld | 7 | 1 | 2023 | 33% won of 3 decided cases Won 1Mixed 0Lost 2 |
| 26 | Hone Law | 7 | 5 | 2023 | 0% won of 4 decided cases Won 0Mixed 2Lost 2 |
| 27 | Pisanelli Bice PLLC | 7 | 4 | 2023 | 50% won of 4 decided cases Won 2Mixed 0Lost 2 |
| 28 | Ballard Spahr LLP | 6 | 4 | 2023 | 100% won of 2 decided cases Won 2Mixed 0Lost 0 |
| 29 | Hall Prangle LLC | 6 | 3 | 2023 | 25% won of 4 decided cases Won 1Mixed 0Lost 3 |
| 30 | McBride Hall | 6 | 4 | 2023 | 0% won of 2 decided cases Won 0Mixed 0Lost 2 |
| 31 | Pyatt Silvestri | 6 | 3 | 2023 | 0% won of 1 decided case Won 0Mixed 0Lost 1 |
| 32 | Tiffany & Bosco, P.A. | 6 | 2 | 2023 | 100% won of 1 decided case Won 1Mixed 0Lost 0 |
| 33 | Bighorn Law | 5 | 1 | 2023 | 100% won of 4 decided cases Won 4Mixed 0Lost 0 |
| 34 | Campbell & Williams | 5 | 3 | 2023 | 50% won of 4 decided cases Won 2Mixed 2Lost 0 |
| 35 | Clark Hill | 5 | 7 | 2023 | 50% won of 4 decided cases Won 2Mixed 0Lost 2 |
| 36 | Federal Public Defender, District of Nevada | 5 | 1 | 2023 | 25% won of 4 decided cases Won 1Mixed 0Lost 3 |
| 37 | Freeman Mathis & Gary, LLP | 5 | 3 | 2023 | 0% won of 1 decided case Won 0Mixed 0Lost 1 |
| 38 | Jones & LoBello | 5 | 3 | 2023 | 0% won of 1 decided case Won 0Mixed 0Lost 1 |
| 39 | King Scow Koch Durham LLC | 5 | 3 | 2023 | 100% won of 2 decided cases Won 2Mixed 0Lost 0 |
| 40 | Klinedinst PC | 5 | 3 | 2023 | 0% won of 2 decided cases Won 0Mixed 0Lost 2 |
| 41 | Maier Gutierrez & Associates | 5 | 4 | 2023 | 50% won of 4 decided cases Won 2Mixed 0Lost 2 |
| 42 | Peterson Baker, PLLC | 5 | 2 | 2023 | 100% won of 3 decided cases Won 3Mixed 0Lost 0 |
| 43 | Schnitzer Johnson & Watson, Chtd. | 5 | 4 | 2023 | 50% won of 2 decided cases Won 1Mixed 0Lost 1 |
| 44 | Sylvester & Polednak, Ltd. | 5 | 4 | 2023 | 50% won of 4 decided cases Won 2Mixed 1Lost 1 |
| 45 | Wolf, Rifkin, Shapiro, Schulman & Rabkin, LLP | 5 | 2 | 2023 | 0% won of 2 decided cases Won 0Mixed 0Lost 2 |
| 46 | ACLU of Nevada | 4 | 1 | 2023 | No decided cases |
| 47 | Alverson Taylor & Sanders | 4 | 3 | 2023 | 0% won of 3 decided cases Won 0Mixed 0Lost 3 |
| 48 | Bailey Kennedy, LLP | 4 | 3 | 2023 | 100% won of 1 decided case Won 1Mixed 0Lost 0 |
| 49 | Christian Morris Trial Attorneys | 4 | 2 | 2023 | 50% won of 2 decided cases Won 1Mixed 0Lost 1 |
| 50 | City of Henderson City Attorney's Office | 4 | 6 | 2023 | 100% won of 3 decided cases Won 3Mixed 0Lost 0 |
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.