Associate
Michael Clemente is an associate in the Washington, D.C. office of Latham & Watkins and a member of the firm’s Supreme Court & Appellate Practice.
Before joining Latham, Michael served as a law clerk to Chief Justice John G. Roberts, Jr. of the Supreme Court of the United States, Judge Thomas B. Griffith of the US Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit, and Judge David F. Hamilton of the US Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit.
He graduated from Yale Law School, where he served as the editor-in-chief of the Yale Law Journal.
Latham litigators honored for obtaining a historic US Supreme Court decision siding with our client in Loper Bright Enterprises v. Raimondo and Relentless Inc. v. Department of Commerce, overruling the Chevron doctrine.
Washington, D.C. partners Adam Greenfield, Eugene Elrod, and associate Michael Clemente were recognized for securing a systemic victory for veterans in the US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit on behalf of Vietnam War combat veteran Robert Doyon.
Latham teams recognized for litigation wins, including a rare “entire defense” victory on behalf of client Cantor Fitzgerald and the dismissal of almost all claims in a securities class action against Virgin Galactic.