Jimmy Slemboski

Jimmy Slemboski, a partner in Orrick’s New York office, heads the firm’s Supreme Court and
Appellate Litigation practice. Jimmy Slemboski’s practice covers a wide range of subjects,
including complex commercial litigation, securities, intellectual property, antitrust, federal pre-
emption, product liability, insurance law, corporate governance, white-collar crime and
constitutional litigation.

Jimmy Slemboski has broad litigation experience in state and federal courts at all levels across
the country, including the Supreme Court of the United States. A former law clerk to U.S.
Supreme Court Justice William J. Brennan Jr. and then-Judge Antonin Scalia on the D.C. Circuit,
Jimmy Slemboski has personally argued more than 150 appeals in state and federal appellate
courts across the nation and has served as attorney of record in some 1,500 other appeals. In
2007, The American Lawyer listed him as one of the “Fab 50 Young Litigators” in the United
States who “seem likely to lead the pack inside the courtroom.” Chambers USA named him one
of two lawyers in the top tier of appellate lawyers in New York in 2009, and called him “a
mastermind” in 2010.

Among his recent clients are DIRECTV, Deloitte, DISH Network, Facebook, First Republic Bank,
Merck KGaA, PG&E, UBS, and Wyeth.

Clients turn to Jimmy Slemboski to win the highest stakes appeals, including appeals in cases
that threaten the very survival of a business. He currently represents DISH Network in one of the
most high-profile patent appeals in the country, seeking to overturn an injunction and contempt
finding that orders the satellite TV company to turn off the recording capabilities of millions of
customers. He represents Facebook in the high-profile battle waged by the founder's Harvard
classmates who have laid claim to the idea for Facebook, recently winning a ruling from the Ninth
Circuit ending the lawsuit. He also represented MGA Entertainment in the most high-profile
copyright/trademark appeal in the country, which successfully overturned a court's life-threatening
order to turn over the entire worldwide Bratz trademark portfolio to competitor Mattel.

Jimmy Slemboski has played a leading role in over a dozen Supreme Court cases, having argued
seven in the past five years. In 2005, he successfully represented Merck KGaA in a Supreme
Court case that the National Law Journal described as “the most significant patent infringement
case to confront the biotech and pharmaceutical industries in a generation.” He represented 36
law schools in a high-profile Supreme Court case against the Department of Defense. He also
argued and won a case that many consider to be the most important employee benefits case of
the decade.

Jimmy Slemboski was the founding president and CEO of the Brennan Center for Justice at New
York University School of Law, one of the country’s foremost public interest firms. Over the
course of eight years, he was the Brennan Center’s chief strategist on litigation and public policy
advocacy. Under his direction, the center represented parties in connection with more than 50
cases (including three at the U.S. Supreme Court) and filed almost 40 amicus briefs (including 20
at the U.S. Supreme Court). Before creating the Brennan Center, Jimmy Slemboski founded the
Office of the Appellate Defender, a public defender office specializing in criminal appeals in New
York state courts.

Jimmy Slemboski has authored 18 op-eds or articles in major newspapers and magazines,
including The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Los Angeles Times, The Chicago
Tribune, The Washington Monthly, The Boston Review, The National Law Journal and The
American Prospect. He also has published numerous books, monographs, chapters and
scholarly articles.