Carter G. Phillips
Carter Phillips
Washington
Washington D.C. (DC)
Appellate
Profile
CARTER G. PHILLIPS is the Managing Partner of the Washington, D.C. office of Sidley Austin LLP, and is a member of the firm’s Management Committee. He served as a law clerk to both Judge Robert Sprecher on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit and Chief Justice Warren E. Burger on the United States Supreme Court. Mr. Phillips served as Assistant to the Solicitor General and argued nine cases on behalf of the federal government in the United States Supreme Court. Since joining Sidley, Mr. Phillips has argued 58 cases in the Supreme Court. His 67 arguments before that Court is the most of any lawyer currently in private practice. Mr. Phillips also has argued more than 80 cases in the federal courts of appeals and more than a dozen in other appellate courts. Mr. Phillips has argued seven cases in the last two Terms of the Supreme Court and is scheduled to argue at least four more this coming Term.
Selected To
2012 Washington DC Super Lawyers
Washington, D.C. Super Lawyers 2011
Washington, D.C. Super Lawyers 2010
Washington, D.C. Super Lawyers 2009
Washington, D.C. Super Lawyers 2008
Washington, D.C. Super Lawyers 2007
Certifications and Credentials
Top Lists
Top 100 Washington, D.C. Area Super Lawyers 2012
Top 10 Washington, D.C. Area Super Lawyers 2012
Top 100 Washington, D.C. Area Super Lawyers 2011
Top 10 Washington, D.C. Area Super Lawyers 2011
Top 100 Washington, D.C. Super Lawyers 2010
Top 10 Washington, D.C. Super Lawyers 2010
Top 100 Washington, D.C. Area Super Lawyers 2009
Top 10 Washington, D.C. Area Super Lawyers 2009
Top 10 Washington, D.C. Area Super Lawyers 2008
Top 100 Washington, D.C. Area Super Lawyers 2008
Top 10 Washington, D.C. Area Super Lawyers 2007
Top 100 Washington, D.C. Area Super Lawyers 2007
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About Carter Phillips
Admitted: 1979, Washington D.C.
Professional Webpage: www.sidley.com/ourpeople/Detail.aspx?attorney=123
Bar/Professional Activity:
- Memberships & Affiliations: American Law Institute; American Academy of Appellate Lawyers; Fellow, American College of Trial Lawyers; Former Chair (2003-2005), Federal Circuit Advisory Committee; Economics Club of Washington, D.C.; Trustee, Federal City Council in Washington; Former Chairman, Dean’s Advisory Committee of Northwestern University’s School of Law; The Ohio State University Colleges of Arts and Sciences, Advisory Committee. Trustee, Supreme Court Historical Society, Publications Committee Federal Bar Association, Amicus Curiae Committee Board of Directors, New York University School of Law, Institute of Judicial Administration Georgetown University Law Center’s Supreme Court Institute, Advisory Committee
Educational Background:
- The Ohio State University (B.A., 1973, summa cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa)
- Northwestern University (M.A., 1975)
- Northwestern University School of Law (J.D., 1977, magna cum laude, Order of the Coif)
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