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Seth Waxman

Partner Co-Chair, Appellate and Supreme Court Litigation Practice Co-Chair, Native American Law Practice · WilmerHale

United StatesAppellate and Supreme Court Litigation, Government and Regulatory Litigation

About

Seth Waxman is a partner at WilmerHale and co-chair of the Appellate and Supreme Court Litigation and Native American Law practices. He served as Solicitor General of the United States from 1997 to 2001 and has a broad litigation and counseling practice with emphasis on complex challenges involving governments or public policy, intellectual property, regulatory, criminal and commercial issues.

Practice areas

Appellate and Supreme Court LitigationGovernment and Regulatory LitigationPublic Policy and Legislative AffairsIntellectual Property LitigationEnergy, Environment and Natural ResourcesEnvironmental Enforcement and LitigationGovernment ContractsNational SecurityAntitrust LitigationInsurance, Annuities and RetirementEducationAnti-DiscriminationAdministrative LawNative American LawMedia and Entertainment

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Expertise

Government and Public PolicyIntellectual PropertyRegulatoryCriminal LawCommercial LitigationAppellate LitigationNative American LawEnvironmental LawEducation

Education

  • JD, Yale Law School, 1977
  • Rockefeller Fellow, 1974
  • AB, Harvard University, 1973

Admissions

  • District of Columbia