When it comes to Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr’s appellate team, the government is a familiar opponent. The team went up against it in a string of U.S. Supreme Court wins this year.

Seth Waxman, co-chairman of the firm’s appellate and Supreme Court litigation practice, and a former solicitor general, said “representing clients in disputes that involved the government” is a major part of the firm’s practice.