John K. Crisham

Crisham & Holman, LLC.

John Crisham, Esq., has briefed, argued, and won complex civil litigation cases involving class actions, energy and environmental matters, commercial and business disputes, products liability and health care, and employment law. John has represented clients at virtually every stage of litigation, from dispositive motions to appeals, in more than 15 different states, before 10 different federal Courts of Appeal, and in the United States Supreme Court. He served as counsel for the prevailing petitioners in Mutual Pharmaceutical Company v. Bartlett, 570 U.S. 472 (2013) and Pliva, Inc. v. Mensing, 564 U.S. 604 (2011), as counsel for amicus curiae the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE) in Susan B. Anthony List v. Driehaus, 573 U.S. 149 (2014), and as counsel at the certiorari and brief-in-opposition stages on behalf of dozens of corporations and other businesses in several other matters. After graduating law school from Notre Dame, John served as a law clerk for Judge Paul J. Kelly, Jr. of the United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit, after which he spent 10 years as a litigation and appellate partner at Kirkland & Ellis LLP in Washington, D.C. John then spent five years as a litigation partner at Greenberg Traurig LLP in Denver. In 2021, John co-founded Crisham & Holman LLC.

 

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