Lisa S. Blatt

Lisa Blatt heads appellate and Supreme Court practice at the prominent Washington, D.C., law firm Arnold & Porter. She spent 13 years with the U.S. Department of Justice, where she served as an assistant to the solicitor general. She has argued more cases before the U.S. Supreme Court than any woman in practice today, prevailing in 27 of 28 cases. She has briefed more than 250 cases in the Court, and her oral advocacy has been cited as exemplary in the Supreme Court clerk's Guide for Counsel in Cases to be Argued Before the Supreme Court.

After Blatt left the Justice Department in May 2009, she served as a consultant to the Federal Trade Commission, where she advised the offices of the chairman, the general counsel, and the Bureau of Competition on antitrust matters before the Supreme Court, the U.S. courts of appeals and federal district courts. She also argued on behalf of the FTC in an important case involving patent and antitrust law.

Blatt was an assistant general counsel and special assistant to the general counsel at the U.S. Department of Energy from 1993 to 1996. Before working in the public sector, she spent several years working for a private law firm. Blatt also served as a law clerk to the Honorable Ruth Bader Ginsburg on the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit during the 1989-1990 term. She is a graduate of the University of Texas at Austin and the University of Texas School of Law.