Your experience sets you apart. At Proskauer, judicial clerks find an opportunity to work with the world’s leading businesses, premier sports leagues, financial institutions, investment funds, not-for-profit institutions, governmental entities, and other organizations and individual clients in their most consequential deals and matters. Our cases are significant, cutting-edge and intellectually demanding, offering challenges that reflect the caliber of your background. What truly distinguishes Proskauer is a powerful combination of extensive trial experience, an innovative approach to client service, a prestigious and broad group of clients, and partners who believe in open doors and foster collaboration.

Why Proskauer?

Cutting-Edge Appeals. Proskauer’s appellate team regularly handles complex and high-stakes matters involving a wide array of issues and industries before courts of appeals across the country, including the U.S. Supreme Court. Recognized by the National Law Journal as an “Appellate Hot List Finalist” and honored with multiple “Litigators of the Week” distinctions, our appellate lawyers are celebrated for their intellectual rigor, creativity and lasting impact. In the past several years, we have argued major appeals for a commonwealth in existential crisis, leading sports leagues and teams, multinational corporations and criminal defendants. True to our philosophy of lean staffing, associates are integral from the outset—researching, drafting and shaping strategy alongside seasoned advocates. This hands-on approach ensures that our lawyers not only contribute meaningfully to landmark cases but also develop the judgment and experience essential to appellate excellence.

Setting Precedent. Our multi-year streak of precedent-setting trial court and appellate wins for the Financial Oversight Management Board of Puerto Rico continued this past year. The restructuring of Puerto Rico is one of the most active litigations in the U.S. today and involves every aspect of civil society from the provision of electricity and sewerage to pensions for public employees. Receiving dozens of filings a day for over seven years from an army of AmLaw100 opposing counsel, Proskauer has scored an extraordinary number of victories defeating injunctions, dismissing complaints, and winning appeals, including over 60 appeals to the United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit and the Supreme Court of the United States. Litigating new law involving complex social, business and constitutional issues, we have established precedent and created the blueprint for solving future municipal and territorial financial crises. Even more critically, we are assisting our client in establishing a better and more hopeful future for the three and half million residents of Puerto Rico.

Bet the Company Cases. Over the past several years, clients have called on us to help them navigate their most challenging disputes—and we delivered. We secured a string of major trial victories over the last 18 to 24 months, including three high-profile antitrust trial wins for Gilead Sciences, Sanderson Farms, and Major League Soccer. In addition, we serve as lead counsel for Sandoz in the largest generic pharmaceuticals antitrust litigation in the country and continue to act as trusted trial counsel to Bayer/Monsanto and Northrop Grumman in product liability & mass tort matters in federal and state courts across the country. We also serve as lead counsel for Wells Fargo in connection with a purported national class action alleging discrimination against minority home loan borrowers.

A Sports Powerhouse. Proskauer’s unparalleled experience in the sports industry remains a defining hallmark of our practice. Every major professional sports league—including Major League Soccer, Major League Baseball, the ATP Tour, the Women’s Tennis Association, the National Football League, the National Basketball Association, and the National Hockey League—turn to us for their most significant matters. Notably, we represented the “Power 5 Conferences” (Pac 12, Big Ten, Big 12, ACC, and SEC) in the 10-day bench trial of a high-profile class action brought by current and former NCAA Division I football and basketball players challenging the limits on compensation and benefits for student-athletes. Plaintiffs sought an order removing existing limitations, an order that would effectively have ended amateurism in college sports.

Associate Development

We believe that true professional growth flourishes when individuals are empowered with meaningful opportunities. From the outset, our associates are entrusted with significant work—advising clients directly, conducting depositions, arguing motions, and examining witnesses at trial. Because we are frequently in court, our associates are not observers but active participants, often standing at the podium to argue an appeal or questioning a witness before the jury.

Vault has described Proskauer as a “high-power firm [that] has charged ahead full-throttle without sacrificing its informal culture.” Ultimately, what makes a law firm exceptional is not only its reputation or its victories, but its people. That balance between excellence and collegiality is what defines us. At Proskauer, we are proud to be a community of talented, accomplished, and genuinely supportive professionals who thrive together.

An Experienced Team. In addition to the many former judicial clerks who have chosen to make Proskauer their professional home, including several U.S. Supreme Court clerks, our litigators and alumni have served as: 

• U.S. Attorney for the District of New Jersey
• Co-Chief, General Crimes Unit in the U.S. Attorney’s Office, Southern District of New York
• Chief, DOJ’s Money Laundering & Bank Integrity Unit
• General Counsel of the SEC 
• Assistant Chief Litigation Counsel, SEC’s Division of Enforcement
• Associate Director, SEC’s Division of Corporation Finance
• Senior Counsel, SEC’s Division of Enforcement
• Deputy Attorney General, State of New York Former Assistant U.S. Attorney, Southern District of New York
• Corporation Counsel for the City of New York
• Assistant U.S. Attorneys in a number of jurisdictions , including California, Illinois and New York
• Member, Judicial Conference Committee on Rules of Practice and Procedure

Public Service. At Proskauer, public service is a defining pillar of our identity. Our Firm has built a robust pro bono practice, with a steadfast focus on providing legal services to those most in need. This commitment is woven into the very fabric of our procedures for managing pro bono matters and reflected in the breadth and diversity of our docket. From individual clients facing life-altering challenges to not-for-profit organizations advancing vital causes, our attorneys devote themselves to matters both large and small. Many of these cases have reached the highest levels of our judicial system, including arguments before the Supreme Court. Through this work, we affirm our belief that access to justice must never be a privilege reserved for the few, but a right guaranteed to all.