Litigation Department of the Year: Professional Liability Winner: Latham & Watkins
Latham’s Securities and M&A Litigation Practice honored again at the New York Legal Awards for the fifth time in the past six years that the contest has been held.
Jamie Wine is an accomplished trial lawyer and a Fellow in the American College of Trial Lawyers. Her recent wins include a trial victory in Delaware Chancery Court for Scilex Pharmaceuticals in a breach of fiduciary duty and misappropriation of trades secret case against its former President and CEO, the dismissal of a highly-publicized defamation suit against Chess.com relating to a chess grandmaster cheating scandal, the dismissal of a high-profile equal pay lawsuit brought by the US Women’s National Soccer team against the US Soccer Federation, and the dismissal of a US$2 billion securities class action and the winning of a US$666 million award in a post M&A dispute for DXC Technology Corporation.
In addition to her trial practice, Jamie regularly advises a number of issuers, each of the Big Four accounting firms, and various financial institutions on a variety of complex commercial and securities litigation matters, as well as SEC and other regulatory investigations.
Jamie is widely recognized for her excellence. She has been praised by leading publications and was a finalist for The American Lawyer’s Litigator of the Year (2020). She is consistently featured as a leading litigator and trial lawyer by Chambers USA, Benchmark Litigation, and Lawdragon.
Jamie formerly served as Global Chair of Latham’s Litigation & Trial Department, and prior to that, as a member of the firm’s Executive Committee.
Jamie's experience includes:
Latham’s Securities and M&A Litigation Practice honored again at the New York Legal Awards for the fifth time in the past six years that the contest has been held.
Named a Top 20 Trial Law Firm in the US and ranked Tier 1 in antitrust, appellate, general commercial, IP, securities, and white collar categories.
A Latham team earned recognition for securing the complete dismissal on behalf of KPMG of a US$120-billion RICO claim stemming from the Credit Suisse collapse.