Don't Cut Our Word Count!

The NLJ has Supreme Court Advocates Push Back on 'Harmful' Proposed Word Limits: "Brief writers would often have to sacrifice readability and clarity to meet the word limit,” according to a letter 18 firms sent to the U.S. Supreme Court on Friday.

The firms’ letter to SCOTUS stated that “a high percentage of the Court’s merits cases are of great national importance and therefore warrant comprehensive briefing.”

The firms that joined in the effort, organized by Michael Kimberly of Mayer Brown, were: Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld; MoloLamken; Arnold & Porter Kaye Scholer; Morrison & Foerster; Bursch Law; O’Melveny & Myers; Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher; Quinn, Emanuel, Urquhart & Sullivan; Gupta Wessler; Ropes & Gray; Jenner & Block; Sidley Austin; Kellogg, Hansen, Todd, Figel & Frederick; Vinson & Elkins; Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr; King & Spalding; Winston & Strawn; and Mayer Brown.