Allon Kedem Featured in Law360’s Supreme Court Roundup Highlighting Arnold & Porter’s High Court Wins
Allon Kedem, Appellate & Supreme Court partner and former Assistant to the Solicitor General at the U.S. Department of Justice, was featured in the Law360 article, “The Firms That Won Big at the Supreme Court,” spotlighting Arnold & Porter’s strong performance during the 2024–2025 term.
Kedem, who argued his 14th case before the high court this term, discussed the trend of major cases gravitating toward national firms with robust appellate practices. “The big-time cases that maybe 40 years ago would have at least originated with and probably stuck with a regional law firm are now going directly to the sort of big national law firms that have appellate practices from the start,” he pointed out.
Arnold & Porter argued three cases before the justices this term, winning two. Kedem led a case examining whether a crime committed through inaction could be considered a “crime of violence,” the oral argument for which he noted was filled with “wall-to-wall hypotheticals.” Partner Kent Yalowitz secured a unanimous ruling upholding a 2019 law ending a jurisdictional hurdle for lawsuits stemming from terrorist attacks in Israel and territories administered by the Palestinian Authority, and counsel Andrew Tutt prevailed in a 5–4 decision affirming military reservists’ eligibility for top-up differential pay without a direct link to a declared national emergency.
Kedem credited the firm’s Supreme Court performance to its deep bench of legal talent and subject-matter expertise. “It’s not one of these firms where there are only one or two attorneys who end up doing all of the cases,” he said.
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