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 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 | 725 | 4 | 2023 | 88% won of 526 decided cases Won 464Mixed 27Lost 35 |
| 2 | Hutchison & Steffen | 34 | 25 | 2023 | 30% won of 20 decided cases Won 6Mixed 4Lost 10 |
| 3 | District Attorney Family Support Division | 28 | 1 | 2023 | 92% won of 25 decided cases Won 23Mixed 0Lost 2 |
| 4 | Hooks Meng & Clement PLLC | 27 | 5 | 2023 | 39% won of 18 decided cases Won 7Mixed 1Lost 10 |
| 5 | Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck, LLP | 25 | 14 | 2023 | 38% won of 16 decided cases Won 6Mixed 5Lost 5 |
| 6 | Claggett & Sykes Trial Lawyers | 24 | 14 | 2023 | 73% won of 15 decided cases Won 11Mixed 1Lost 3 |
| 7 | Marquis Aurbach | 24 | 13 | 2023 | 53% won of 17 decided cases Won 9Mixed 2Lost 6 |
| 8 | Nye County District Attorney's Office | 22 | 5 | 2023 | 80% won of 15 decided cases Won 12Mixed 0Lost 3 |
| 9 | Womble Bond Dickinson (US) LLP | 22 | 8 | 2023 | 56% won of 16 decided cases Won 9Mixed 3Lost 4 |
| 10 | Greenberg Traurig, LLP | 21 | 10 | 2023 | 59% won of 17 decided cases Won 10Mixed 0Lost 7 |
| 11 | Holland & Hart LLP | 21 | 9 | 2023 | 50% won of 14 decided cases Won 7Mixed 4Lost 3 |
| 12 | Lewis Brisbois Bisgaard & Smith LLP | 21 | 12 | 2023 | 40% won of 15 decided cases Won 6Mixed 0Lost 9 |
| 13 | Wilson Elser Moskowitz Edelman & Dicker LLP | 17 | 8 | 2023 | 22% won of 9 decided cases Won 2Mixed 1Lost 6 |
| 14 | Garin Law Group | 16 | 5 | 2023 | 91% won of 11 decided cases Won 10Mixed 1Lost 0 |
| 15 | Wright, Finlay & Zak, LLP | 15 | 5 | 2023 | 80% won of 5 decided cases Won 4Mixed 0Lost 1 |
| 16 | Atlas Solomon LLP | 14 | 3 | 2023 | 67% won of 9 decided cases Won 6Mixed 0Lost 3 |
| 17 | Snell & Wilmer L.L.P. | 14 | 15 | 2023 | 33% won of 3 decided cases Won 1Mixed 2Lost 0 |
| 18 | Murchison & Cumming, LLP | 12 | 1 | 2023 | 38% won of 8 decided cases Won 3Mixed 2Lost 3 |
| 19 | Akerman LLP | 10 | 2 | 2023 | 71% won of 7 decided cases Won 5Mixed 0Lost 2 |
| 20 | Jones & LoBello | 10 | 3 | 2023 | 50% won of 6 decided cases Won 3Mixed 0Lost 3 |
| 21 | McDonald Carano LLP | 10 | 11 | 2023 | 0% won of 2 decided cases Won 0Mixed 1Lost 1 |
| 22 | Pyatt Silvestri | 10 | 4 | 2023 | 25% won of 4 decided cases Won 1Mixed 1Lost 2 |
| 23 | Cogburn Davidson Injury Lawyers | 9 | 3 | 2023 | 57% won of 7 decided cases Won 4Mixed 0Lost 3 |
| 24 | Fennemore Craig, P.C. | 9 | 6 | 2023 | 100% won of 1 decided case Won 1Mixed 0Lost 0 |
| 25 | Africa Sanchez Law | 8 | 1 | 2023 | 20% won of 5 decided cases Won 1Mixed 0Lost 4 |
| 26 | Chesnoff & Schonfeld | 8 | 1 | 2023 | 33% won of 3 decided cases Won 1Mixed 0Lost 2 |
| 27 | Hofland & Tomsheck | 8 | 1 | 2023 | 43% won of 7 decided cases Won 3Mixed 2Lost 2 |
| 28 | Robertson, Johnson, Miller & Williamson | 8 | 4 | 2023 | 33% won of 3 decided cases Won 1Mixed 0Lost 2 |
| 29 | Ballard Spahr LLP | 7 | 4 | 2023 | 67% won of 3 decided cases Won 2Mixed 1Lost 0 |
| 30 | Bighorn Law | 7 | 1 | 2023 | 80% won of 5 decided cases Won 4Mixed 1Lost 0 |
| 31 | Clark Hill | 7 | 7 | 2023 | 67% won of 6 decided cases Won 4Mixed 0Lost 2 |
| 32 | Fox Rothschild LLP | 7 | 3 | 2023 | 29% won of 7 decided cases Won 2Mixed 1Lost 4 |
| 33 | Hall Prangle LLC | 7 | 3 | 2023 | 20% won of 5 decided cases Won 1Mixed 0Lost 4 |
| 34 | Hone Law | 7 | 5 | 2023 | 0% won of 4 decided cases Won 0Mixed 2Lost 2 |
| 35 | Klinedinst PC | 7 | 4 | 2023 | 0% won of 4 decided cases Won 0Mixed 1Lost 3 |
| 36 | McBride Hall | 7 | 4 | 2023 | 0% won of 3 decided cases Won 0Mixed 1Lost 2 |
| 37 | Pisanelli Bice PLLC | 7 | 4 | 2023 | 50% won of 4 decided cases Won 2Mixed 0Lost 2 |
| 38 | Sgro & Roger, Attorneys at Law | 7 | 5 | 2023 | 29% won of 7 decided cases Won 2Mixed 1Lost 4 |
| 39 | Wright Marsh & Levy | 7 | 1 | 2023 | 0% won of 5 decided cases Won 0Mixed 0Lost 5 |
| 40 | Alverson Taylor & Sanders | 6 | 3 | 2023 | 0% won of 5 decided cases Won 0Mixed 1Lost 4 |
| 41 | Black & Wadhams | 6 | 1 | 2023 | 33% won of 3 decided cases Won 1Mixed 0Lost 2 |
| 42 | City of Henderson City Attorney's Office | 6 | 8 | 2023 | 80% won of 5 decided cases Won 4Mixed 0Lost 1 |
| 43 | Federal Public Defender, District of Nevada | 6 | 1 | 2023 | 20% won of 5 decided cases Won 1Mixed 0Lost 4 |
| 44 | Maier Gutierrez & Associates | 6 | 4 | 2023 | 40% won of 5 decided cases Won 2Mixed 0Lost 3 |
| 45 | Tiffany & Bosco, P.A. | 6 | 2 | 2023 | 100% won of 1 decided case Won 1Mixed 0Lost 0 |
| 46 | Willick Law Group | 6 | 1 | 2023 | 20% won of 5 decided cases Won 1Mixed 0Lost 4 |
| 47 | Wolf, Rifkin, Shapiro, Schulman & Rabkin, LLP | 6 | 3 | 2023 | 33% won of 3 decided cases Won 1Mixed 0Lost 2 |
| 48 | Burger, Meyer & D'Angelo, LLP | 5 | 2 | 2023 | 20% won of 5 decided cases Won 1Mixed 0Lost 4 |
| 49 | Campbell & Williams | 5 | 3 | 2023 | 50% won of 4 decided cases Won 2Mixed 2Lost 0 |
| 50 | Cloward Trial Lawyers | 5 | 4 | 2023 | 67% won of 3 decided cases Won 2Mixed 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.