Because of the firm’s successes in the circuit courts during the past year, veteran U.S. Supreme Court litigator Patricia Millett, co-head of Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld’s national appellate practice, is in the unusual position of trying hard not to have a Supreme Court practice next year.
Millett is gearing up to file briefs opposing review in a path-breaking patent victory in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, among other cases, while awaiting the outcome of her own Supreme Court argument against the constitutionality of Arizona’s law requiring potential voters to prove they are U.S. citizens before registering and casting their ballots.
