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Chicago, IL
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Jerold S. Solovy, Partner JEROLD S. SOLOVY, the Chairman Emeritus of Jenner & Block and a member of its Policy Committee, is widely regarded as one of the preeminent appellate and trial lawyers in the country, having regularly been cited in The National Law Journal as one of the 100 most influential lawyers in America, most recently in 2006. Mr. Solovy has extensive experience in successfully handling high stakes litigation, both at the trial and appellate levels, and has argued several cases before the United States Supreme Court. As a member of the Firm's Litigation Department, Mr. Solovy continues to focus on litigating complex business matters and insurance coverage issues, while litigating many high-profile intellectual property and securities cases. Among the several cases Mr. Solovy has handled before the United States Supreme Court is Bolger v. Youngs Drug Products Corp., 463 U.S. 60 (1983), in which he helped set an important precedent involving commercial speech. In 1865, a crusader named Anthony Comstock pushed a bill through a lame-duck Congress which prevented manufacturers of contraceptive devices from sending unsolicited advertisements through the mail. In 1983, on behalf of his client, Youngs Drug Products Corp., Mr. Solovy argued that the law was an unconstitutional regulation of commercial speech. The slightly modified Comstock Act had remained in force for more than a century until the statute was successfully challenged before the Supreme Court. In Lexecon, Inc. v. Milberg Weiss Bershad Hynes and Lerach, 523 U.S. 26 (1998), Mr. Solovy represented the Milberg Weiss firm before the Supreme Court of the United States, which was considering whether a federal district court conducting “pretrial proceedings” under 28 U.S.C. § 1407(a) may invoke section 1404(a) to assign a transferred case to itself for trial. Ultimately, the Court ruled that a district court conducting such pretrial proceedings has no authority to assign a transferred case to itself for trial. Mr. Solovy has personally handled, on a pro bono basis, hundreds of criminal court cases as well as precedent-setting appeals for indigent individuals. Three of those cases have gone all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court, including Kirby v. Illinois, 406 U.S. 682 (1972) (regarding whether an indigent person is entitled to appointment of counsel for the purpose of conducting a pre-indictment lineup); Ralston v. Robinson, 454 U.S. 201 (1981) (involving the efficacy of sentencing of a juvenile offender to an adult sentence); and Reed v. Farley, 512 U.S. 339 (1994) (regarding whether an accused's federal right to a speedy trial is violated when the state court fails to observe a 120-day speedy trial rule because no objection was raised at the time the trial date is set). Mr. Solovy is a graduate of the University of Michigan (B.A., 1952) and Harvard Law School (L.L.B., cum laude, 1955). At Michigan, he was a member of Phi Beta Kappa, Phi Kappa Phi, Pi Sigma Alpha and Phi Eta Sigma. At Harvard Law School, he served as a member of the Board of Editors for the Harvard Law Review (1953-1955). Mr. Freeman is admitted to Bars of the States of Illinois and Montana and the District of Columbia and is admitted to practice before the United States Supreme Court, and U.S. Courts of Appeals and District Courts too numerous to list. For additional information, please visit www.jenner.com/jsolovy Recent Supreme Court Cases
Lexecon, Inc. v. Milberg Weiss Bershad Hynes and Lerach (1997) Admissions and Certifications
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