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Practice Areas
Appellate and Critical Motions
Health Care Law
Patent Litigation
Product Liability
Securities Litigation and Regulatory Defense
White-Collar and Internal Investigations

Linda T. Coberly, Partner

Linda Coberly is a partner in Winston & Strawn’s litigation practice and serves as vice chair of the firm’s appellate and critical motions practice group. A significant portion of her practice centers on representing trade organizations and other amici before the U.S. Supreme Court, and on advising and representing clients with regard to certiorari proceedings.

Ms. Coberly’s recent Supreme Court representations have included representing Human Rights First as amicus curiae on the merits in a case addressing the definition of “aggravated felony” in the Immigration and Nationality Act (Lopez v. Gonzalez, 127 S. Ct. 625 (2006)); the Servicemembers Legal Defense Network as amicus curiae on the merits in support of a challenge to the Solomon Amendment, which effectively requires universities to allow access to military recruiters (Rumsfeld v. Forum for Academic and Institutional Rights, 126 S. Ct. 1297 (2006)); and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, the American Financial Services Association, and the American Insurance Association as amici curiae in support of a petition for certiorari from a Fifth Circuit decision that adopted a “common defense” exception to the fraudulent joinder doctrine and thus dramatically limited an out-of-state defendant’s ability to remove a case to federal court based on diversity (Illinois Central Railroad Co. v. Smallwood, 545 U.S. 992 (2005) (cert. den’d)).

Ms. Coberly served as a law clerk to Justice Stephen G. Breyer of the United States Supreme Court in the 1998 term. She also served as a law clerk to the Honorable Douglas H. Ginsburg in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit from 1995 to 1996. She received an A.B. from Princeton University in 1989 and a J.D., magna cum laude, from the University of Michigan Law School in 1995, where she served as editor-in-chief of the Michigan Law Review and was a member of the Order of the Coif.

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