Roy Englert is an appellate litigator. He has argued 20 cases in the Supreme Court of the United States, and will argue number 21 in the spring of 2016. He has briefed many other cases in the Supreme Court and briefed and argued many cases in various lower appellate courts. Although Roy has particularly extensive experience in antitrust and bankruptcy matters, his appellate experience encompasses a wide range of other fields of law, including copyrights, Falce Claims Act, separation of powers, patents, racketeering law (RICO), employment discrimination, foreign sovereign immunity, regulation of transportation industries, ERISA, milk regulation, and the death penalty and other criminal issues. Roy has written and spoken about techniques of appellate advocacy and about substantive issues of antitrust, bankruptcy, civil procedure, constitutional law, and employment discrimination.


Roy was a co-founder of Robbins Russell in 2001. For more than a decade before that, he was a partner in the Washington office of Mayer Brown. Before joining Mayer Brown, Roy was an Assistant to the Solicitor General from 1986 to 1989. He earlier worked at another Washington law firm and served as a law clerk on the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit. Since 2002, Roy has worked with the Appellate Litigation Clinic at the Georgetown University Law Center as an Adjunct Professor. He has been a guest speaker at numerous other law schools, at ABA meetings, and at events sponsored by various organizations including the Chamber of Commerce of the United States of America and the Washington Legal Foundation.

Degrees

A.B., Princeton University, 1978; J.D. Harvard Law School, 1981

Practice Focus

Assistant to the Solicitor General, U.S. Department of Justice, 1986-1989; Associate, 1989-1990, and Partner, 1991-2001, Appellate Litigation Group, Mayer, Brown & Platt, Washington, D.C.; Partner, 2001-present, Robbins, Russell, Englert, Orseck, Untereiner & Sauber LLP, with primary focus on appellate litigation.