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 2021, 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 | 915 | 4 | 2021 | 91% won of 698 decided cases Won 635Mixed 24Lost 39 |
| 2 | Atlas Solomon LLP | 58 | 2 | 2021 | 89% won of 38 decided cases Won 34Mixed 2Lost 2 |
| 3 | District Attorney Family Support Division | 45 | 1 | 2021 | 88% won of 43 decided cases Won 38Mixed 0Lost 5 |
| 4 | Hutchison & Steffen | 37 | 22 | 2021 | 50% won of 24 decided cases Won 12Mixed 2Lost 10 |
| 5 | Wilson Elser Moskowitz Edelman & Dicker LLP | 37 | 17 | 2021 | 75% won of 28 decided cases Won 21Mixed 1Lost 6 |
| 6 | Holland & Hart LLP | 32 | 7 | 2021 | 30% won of 23 decided cases Won 7Mixed 4Lost 12 |
| 7 | Federal Public Defender, District of Nevada | 31 | 1 | 2021 | 4% won of 23 decided cases Won 1Mixed 1Lost 21 |
| 8 | Claggett & Sykes Trial Lawyers | 30 | 14 | 2021 | 37% won of 19 decided cases Won 7Mixed 4Lost 8 |
| 9 | Womble Bond Dickinson (US) LLP | 29 | 4 | 2021 | 18% won of 17 decided cases Won 3Mixed 3Lost 11 |
| 10 | Akerman LLP | 28 | 2 | 2021 | 90% won of 21 decided cases Won 19Mixed 1Lost 1 |
| 11 | McDonald Carano LLP | 25 | 17 | 2021 | 80% won of 15 decided cases Won 12Mixed 2Lost 1 |
| 12 | Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck, LLP | 24 | 10 | 2021 | 64% won of 14 decided cases Won 9Mixed 1Lost 4 |
| 13 | Lewis Brisbois Bisgaard & Smith LLP | 19 | 17 | 2021 | 67% won of 12 decided cases Won 8Mixed 1Lost 3 |
| 14 | Pisanelli Bice PLLC | 17 | 4 | 2021 | 78% won of 9 decided cases Won 7Mixed 1Lost 1 |
| 15 | Snell & Wilmer L.L.P. | 17 | 12 | 2021 | 75% won of 12 decided cases Won 9Mixed 1Lost 2 |
| 16 | Garin Law Group | 16 | 5 | 2021 | 70% won of 10 decided cases Won 7Mixed 0Lost 3 |
| 17 | Klinedinst PC | 16 | 3 | 2021 | 63% won of 8 decided cases Won 5Mixed 1Lost 2 |
| 18 | Litchfield Cavo, LLP | 16 | 2 | 2021 | 100% won of 9 decided cases Won 9Mixed 0Lost 0 |
| 19 | Marquis Aurbach | 16 | 10 | 2021 | 58% won of 12 decided cases Won 7Mixed 2Lost 3 |
| 20 | Pyatt Silvestri | 15 | 4 | 2021 | 22% won of 9 decided cases Won 2Mixed 0Lost 7 |
| 21 | Fennemore Craig, P.C. | 14 | 4 | 2021 | 67% won of 3 decided cases Won 2Mixed 0Lost 1 |
| 22 | Wright, Finlay & Zak, LLP | 13 | 5 | 2021 | 60% won of 10 decided cases Won 6Mixed 1Lost 3 |
| 23 | Bighorn Law | 11 | 3 | 2021 | 43% won of 7 decided cases Won 3Mixed 2Lost 2 |
| 24 | Cloward Trial Lawyers | 11 | 3 | 2021 | 71% won of 7 decided cases Won 5Mixed 0Lost 2 |
| 25 | Greenberg Traurig, LLP | 11 | 6 | 2021 | 78% won of 9 decided cases Won 7Mixed 0Lost 2 |
| 26 | Garman Turner Gordon LLP | 10 | 5 | 2021 | 50% won of 4 decided cases Won 2Mixed 1Lost 1 |
| 27 | Hooks Meng & Clement PLLC | 10 | 6 | 2021 | 56% won of 9 decided cases Won 5Mixed 0Lost 4 |
| 28 | Bremer Whyte Brown & O'Meara, LLP | 9 | 4 | 2021 | 40% won of 5 decided cases Won 2Mixed 0Lost 3 |
| 29 | Kemp Jones, LLP | 9 | 5 | 2021 | 17% won of 6 decided cases Won 1Mixed 3Lost 2 |
| 30 | Weinberg, Wheeler, Hudgins, Gunn & Dial, LLC | 9 | 5 | 2021 | 14% won of 7 decided cases Won 1Mixed 0Lost 6 |
| 31 | Winner & Booze | 9 | 5 | 2021 | 67% won of 6 decided cases Won 4Mixed 1Lost 1 |
| 32 | Clark Hill | 8 | 7 | 2021 | 67% won of 6 decided cases Won 4Mixed 1Lost 1 |
| 33 | Las Vegas Defense Group, LLC | 8 | 3 | 2021 | 0% won of 7 decided cases Won 0Mixed 0Lost 7 |
| 34 | Leach Kern Gruchow Anderson Song | 8 | 4 | 2021 | 75% won of 4 decided cases Won 3Mixed 1Lost 0 |
| 35 | McBride Hall | 8 | 3 | 2021 | 57% won of 7 decided cases Won 4Mixed 1Lost 2 |
| 36 | Alverson Taylor & Sanders | 7 | 3 | 2021 | 100% won of 4 decided cases Won 4Mixed 0Lost 0 |
| 37 | Fox Rothschild LLP | 7 | 1 | 2021 | 100% won of 3 decided cases Won 3Mixed 0Lost 0 |
| 38 | Nevada Defense Group | 7 | 1 | 2021 | 14% won of 7 decided cases Won 1Mixed 1Lost 5 |
| 39 | VC2 Law | 7 | 2 | 2021 | 60% won of 5 decided cases Won 3Mixed 0Lost 2 |
| 40 | Woodburn and Wedge | 7 | 5 | 2021 | 83% won of 6 decided cases Won 5Mixed 0Lost 1 |
| 41 | Allison MacKenzie, Ltd. | 6 | 3 | 2021 | 50% won of 4 decided cases Won 2Mixed 0Lost 2 |
| 42 | Bailey Kennedy, LLP | 6 | 5 | 2021 | 0% won of 4 decided cases Won 0Mixed 1Lost 3 |
| 43 | Jones & LoBello | 6 | 3 | 2021 | 67% won of 3 decided cases Won 2Mixed 0Lost 1 |
| 44 | Kaempfer Crowell | 6 | 6 | 2021 | 80% won of 5 decided cases Won 4Mixed 0Lost 1 |
| 45 | Maier Gutierrez & Associates | 6 | 3 | 2021 | 50% won of 4 decided cases Won 2Mixed 0Lost 2 |
| 46 | McMenemy | Holmes PLLC | 6 | 2 | 2021 | 50% won of 4 decided cases Won 2Mixed 0Lost 2 |
| 47 | Oronoz & Ericsson Injury Lawyers | 6 | 1 | 2021 | 20% won of 5 decided cases Won 1Mixed 0Lost 4 |
| 48 | Resch Law, PLLC | 6 | 1 | 2021 | 0% won of 6 decided cases Won 0Mixed 0Lost 6 |
| 49 | Summit Trial Attorneys | 6 | 1 | 2021 | 50% won of 4 decided cases Won 2Mixed 0Lost 2 |
| 50 | Thorndal Armstrong, PC | 6 | 5 | 2021 | 75% won of 4 decided cases Won 3Mixed 0Lost 1 |
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.