Latham Named D.C. Law Firm of the Year by the National Law Journal

Latham received the inaugural D.C. Law Firm of the Year award as part of the National Law Journal’s Legal Awards program, the top prize. The award is bestowed to “the D.C. firm that has demonstrated a broad spectrum of achievements in the past year and talent depth.” Latham was recognized for outstanding achievements, innovation, and dedication within the Washington, D.C. legal community and nationally across practice areas, receiving honors in nine categories, the most of any law firm.

In addition to taking the overall prize, Latham was recognized in the following categories:

• D.C. Rising Star — Julia Thompson, for her work advising public companies in a range of vital areas, including securities, governance, and compliance matters.
• Appellate Attorney of the Year Finalist — Roman Martinez, for his work securing the landmark US Supreme Court decision in Relentless v. Department of Commerce (decided with Loper Bright Enterprises v. Raimondo), overturning the decades-old Chevron deference doctrine.
• Winning Litigators Finalist — Tony Sammi and Rachel Blitzer, for the New York partner duo’s significant trial win for Universal Alloy Corporation in a multi-hundred-million-dollar aerospace trade secrets dispute.
• Appellate Hot List Finalist, for handling exemplary appellate matters, such as the historic US Supreme Court decision overturning Chevron deference, a holding of administrative law that will be felt across virtually every federal agency.
• D.C. Litigation Department of the Year Finalist — Antitrust, highlighting Latham’s top performance across the antitrust spectrum, which includes a precedent-setting win for Cendyn, defeating “hub and spoke” conspiracy allegations tied to algorithmic pricing recommendations, with wide impact in a hot area of law at the intersection of antitrust and AI.
• D.C. Litigation Department of the Year Finalist — Intellectual Property, for achieving fantastic results for clients in their most complex disputes, including winning a critical patent infringement victory for leading semiconductor manufacturer GlobalFoundries, defeating a US$430 million dollar patent claim just a month before trial. Latham has now been recognized in the D.C. IP Litigation Department of the Year award category eight of the last nine times the category has been included.
• D.C. Litigation Department of the Year Finalist — White Collar, for handling 25% of the DOJ’s publicly disclosed FCPA enforcement actions against corporations in 2023, including receiving a rare declination from the DOJ for Lifecore Biomedical and securing a deferred prosecution agreement with the DOJ for Tysers Insurance Brokers Limited.
• D.C. Diversity Initiative of the Year Finalist, for the firm’s pro bono work to preserve the legacy of Emmett Till and Mamie Till-Mobley, resulting in the newly designated Emmett Till and Mamie Till-Mobley National Monument in Sumner and Glendora, Mississippi, and Chicago, Illinois.