The National Law Journal Names Elbert Lin a 2019 Litigation Trailblazer

The National Law Journal has named partner Elbert Lin among its 2019 Litigation Trailblazers. The list spotlights 30 litigators nationwide who have marked new paths in the courtroom.

Lin co-leads the firm’s Issues and Appeals practice, having formerly served as West Virginia’s first state Solicitor General in several decades and one of the first Asian American statewide officials in West Virginia. He has consistently been on the front lines of many precedent-setting cases in appellate courts across the country.

In recent years, Lin has been involved in many “firsts” at the US Supreme Court. In 2016, he won a stay from the US Supreme Court of the EPA’s Clean Power Plan under the Obama administration—the first and only time the Court put a regulation on hold before review by a federal appeals court, described by George Will as “the court’s most severe rebuke of a president” since the Truman administration. In 2018, the Court called for the views of the US Solicitor General on a petition for certiorari that Lin filed and, in a unique turn, required that office to submit those views in just one month. The Solicitor General supported Lin’s petition, and the Court granted certiorari earlier this year.

Read “Trailblazers: Litigation,” The National Law Journal, September 2019

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