Position: Partner

TEL: 202-736-8270

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Website: www.sidley.com

Admitted: District of Columbia, 1977

Law School: Northwestern University, J.D.

College: The Ohio State University, B.A.

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Practice Areas: Appellate; Administrative Law Appeals; Commercial Litigation Appeals; Communications Law Appeals; Energy and Transportation Law Appeals; Financial, Securities and Accountants Liability Appeals; Healthcare and Federal Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act Appeals; I

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CARTER G. PHILLIPS is the chair of the firm’s Executive Committee and was the managing partner of its Washington, D.C. office from 1995 to 2012. He served as a law clerk to both Judge Robert Sprecher on the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit and Chief Justice Warren E. Burger on the United States Supreme Court. Carter also served as Assistant to the Solicitor General and argued nine cases on behalf of the federal government in the United States Supreme Court. At Sidley, Carter has argued 73 cases in the Supreme Court. His total of 82 arguments before that Court are the most of any lawyer currently in private practice. Carter also has argued more than 100 cases in United States courts of appeals, including at least one in every Circuit in the country, and more than 30 in the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit.