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Anthony J. Vlatas, Esq. is legal counsel providing appellate
litigation and advisory services. Mr. Vlatas offers legal
representation or counsel on appeal
to large corporations, as well as to medium-sized and small
businesses, trade associations and private individuals. He
also accepts referrals from, and offers consulting services
to other law firms involved in appellate
litigation and varied other legal matters.
Mr. Vlatas often handles complex appellate work in any
of a wide variety of subject areas on behalf of some of the
most prestigious and demanding clients. Mr. Vlatas offers
representation to clients in less-complex legal matters as
well.
A few examples of Mr. Vlatas's work
are presented forthwith:
- Mr. Vlatas represented President George W. Bush
in the litigation pertaining to the winner of the 2000 Presidential
Election.
- the telecommunications company WorldCom, Inc. (formerly
MCI Communications, Inc.), in an appeal
to the European
Union's Court of First Instance involving antitrust
issues relating to WorldCom's Internet subsidiary, UUNet
Technologies, Inc.
- IBM Corp., in an action in the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York (Manhattan) brought by several former IBM employees alleging common law torts against the company
- the shipping firm Seariver Maritime, Inc., an
Exxon Corp. subsidiary and the owners of the former
Exxon Valdez tanker vessel, in an appeal to the United States
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit in Alaska presenting
issues of federal court jurisdiction and interpretation
of the federal consent decree resolving Exxon's governmental
liability arising from the Exxon Valdez oil spill.
Anthony J. Vlatas, Esq. has practiced as an appellate
lawyer with the Washington, D.C.-based law firm Covington
& Burling before establishing his own appellate
law practice. While at Covington & Burling, Mr. Vlatas
taught the firm's class on appellate brief writing. Mr. Vlatas
has frequently served as a consultant to Covington & Burling
in appellate litigation and other matters. He further has served
as a consultant to the New York-based law firm of Fried,
Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson, and to the
New Jersey-based law
firm of Lynch
& Lynch.
Mr. Vlatas's formidable experience includes:
- serving as law clerk to the Hon. Anthony M. Kennedy,
Associate Justice, Supreme
Court of the United States, in 1996-97
- as law clerk to the Hon. Alex Kozinski, U.S. Circuit
Judge, United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit,
in 1995-96
- as law clerk to the Hon. Peter K. Leisure, U.S.
District Judge, United States District Court for the Southern
District of New York, in 1994-95.
And also:
- as American Inns of Court Temple Bar Scholar
1997 in the Royal Courts of Justice, London England,
Chambers of the Hon. Mr. Justice Tuckey, Judge-in-Charge,
High Court of Justice, Queens Bench Division, Commercial
Court.
Mr. Vlatas is admitted to the
bars of:
Mr. Vlatas received his J.D. from Columbia
University's School of Law with highest honors and has
received several other academic awards, including the Thomas
E. Dewey Prize for writing the best appellate brief in the
Law School's annual Harlan Fiske Stone Moot Court Competition.
Mr. Vlatas holds an M.B.A. with highest honors from
Texas A&M University and a B.S.E. in Operations
Research from Princeton University.
Further details about Mr. Vlatas's legal experience and/or
his education, and links to federal and state appeals court
websites and other potentially useful links, are available
by clicking the designated tabs below. Please feel free to
tender specific inquiries or to discuss engaging Mr. Vlatas
by calling him at (207) 221-5641 or by e-mailing him
at avlatas@lawyer-for-appeals.com.
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