Amit R. Vora, Chair of the firm’s Appellate & Constitutional Litigation practice group, focuses his practice on complex litigation in federal and state courts, with a particular emphasis on appellate litigation. His experience includes representing companies and individuals in administrative, commercial, and intellectual property disputes, as well as matters involving the First Amendment, separation of powers, due process, and other constitutional issues.
Amit has extensive experience litigating before the U.S. Supreme Court and federal and state appellate courts across the country. He has filed several scores of appellate briefs, and he has presented numerous oral arguments, including before the U.S. Courts of Appeals for the Third, Fifth, Seventh, Ninth, and D.C. Circuits, and dozens of times before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit and the New York State Supreme Court’s Appellate Division.
Amit previously served as Assistant Solicitor General with the New York State Attorney General’s Office. There, he litigated federal and state appeals involving administrative and constitutional issues.
Amit was also a supervising attorney and teaching fellow with Georgetown University Law Center’s Appellate Courts Immersion Clinic, and he clerked for the Honorable Edward C. Prado, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit.
Amit has authored several practice-oriented and scholarly pieces, including “The Overlooked Equitable Path to Article III,” Notice & Comment, Yale Journal on Regulation (2025); “The Third Circuit’s Sun Valley Decision: An Illumination of Jarkesy’s Article III Implications,” Washington Legal Foundation (2025); “What Grayscale’s Victory in Bitcoin Case Means for Crypto Market,” Bloomberg Law (2023); “Constitutional Crowding and Article II,” 85 Albany Law Review 857 (2022); and “Defending an Under-21 Firearm Ban Under the Second Amendment,” 71 Stanford Law Review Online 1 (2018).
A frequent lecturer on appellate advocacy and other topics, Amit’s recent engagements include speaking on appellate trends in commercial litigation at the New York State Judicial Institute’s Judicial Seminar Series (2026 and 2025), debating federal appellate procedure at a Federalist Society event (2025), and presenting on a panel on civil appeals and argument at the New York State Bar Association’s Commercial Litigation Academy (2024).
Amit also serves on the New York State Bar Association’s Committee on Courts of Appellate Jurisdiction and the pro bono panels for the Second, Fourth, and Fifth Circuits.
Amit has been recognized by The Legal 500, by Lawdragon on its 500 Leading Litigators in America list, and as a Benchmark Litigation Star. He holds a certificate in Economics of Blockchain and Digital Assets from the University of Pennsylvania Wharton’s Executive Education Program.
Work Highlights
- Former U.S. Attorneys General Edwin Meese III and Michael B. Mukasey and Professors Steven G. Calabresi and Garry S. Lawson as amici in several constitutional matters involving federal executive and administrative power, including SEC v. Jarkesy (re: agency damages actions and the Seventh Amendment) and Trump v. Slaughter (re: executive removal power and Article II) in the U.S. Supreme Court; SpaceX v. NLRB in the Fifth Circuit (re: Thryv remedies and the Seventh Amendment); and U.S. ex rel. Zafirov in the Eleventh Circuit (re: qui tam and Article II).
- ParkerVision in the U.S. Supreme Court to challenge the lawfulness of the Federal Circuit’s summary-affirmance practice.
- MSN Pharmaceuticals in the U.S. Supreme Court to argue the proper use of after-arising technology in the patent-validity inquiry.
- The Human Trafficking Legal Center as amicus in the U.S. Supreme Court case Medical Marijana v. Horn to argue the proper scope of the personal-injury bar to civil RICO standing.
- Alba Vineyard in a constitutional challenge to New York’s wine-shipping rules under the dormant Commerce Clause.
Prior to joining Kasowitz:
- A public official in litigation concerning the official’s social media profile and the First Amendment in the Second Circuit.
- Northrop Grumman in environmental insurance litigation in the Second Circuit.
- Eli Lilly in products liability litigation concerning Cymbalta in the Ninth Circuit.
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