Sócio
Co-Leader of Supreme Court & Appellate
Michael A. Scodro
Supreme Court & Appellate, Litigation & Dispute Resolution, Class Actions & Aggregate Litigation
Geral
An accomplished litigator and appellate advocate, Michael A. Scodro has argued dozens of cases in federal and state supreme and appellate courts, including three in the US Supreme Court.
Prior to joining Mayer Brown from another prominent firm, Michael spent more than six years as the Illinois Solicitor General, where he oversaw the civil and criminal appeals divisions of the Attorney General’s Office and advised the Attorney General on constitutional and other significant legal issues. As Solicitor General, he also coordinated with the offices of other state attorneys general in the preparation of multi-state amicus briefs for filing in the US Supreme Court and brought Illinois to the forefront of the states in this area of Supreme Court advocacy.
Reconhecimento
- Band 1: Appellate Law – Chambers USA (Illinois)
- Elected as member of American Law Institute
- Elected as fellow of American Academy of Appellate Lawyers
- Selected as fellow of American Bar Foundation
- Selected as fellow of Leadership Greater Chicago
- Named to 40 Illinois Attorneys Under Forty to Watch
- Six-time recipient of U.S. Supreme Court Best Brief Award by National Association of Attorneys General
Formação Acadêmica
- Yale Law School, JD
Executive Editor, Yale Law Journal; Articles Editor, Yale Journal of International Law - Dartmouth College, AB, summa cum laude
Phi Beta Kappa; Rufus Choate Scholar; high honors
Registros
- Illinois
Courts
- US Supreme Court
- US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit
- US Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
- US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
- US Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit
- US Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit
- US Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
- US Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
- US Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
- US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
- US Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit
- US District Court for the Northern District of Illinois
Atividades
- Lecturer-in-Law, University of Chicago Law School
- Member, American Bar Association
- Member, American Bar Association's Council of Appellate Lawyers; Chair (2017-2018)
- Member, Seventh Circuit Bar Association; President (2019-2021)
- Member, Illinois Appellate Lawyers Association; President (2015-2016)
- Illinois Supreme Court's Committee on Professional Responsibility (2015-2023); Chair (2017-2023)
- Member, Special Supreme Court Committee on Illinois Evidence (2008-2013)
- Member, Executive Committee, Yale Law School Association (2016-2019)