John P. Elwood
Arnold Porter Kaye Scholer LLP
John P. Elwood, Esq., is the head of Arnold & Porter's Appellate and Supreme Court practice. He has argued nine cases before the Supreme Court of the United States and appeared before most of the federal courts of appeals. He has successfully argued cases across a broad cross-section of subjects, with particular experience in environmental law, the False Claims Act, government contracting, and federal criminal law. Mr. Elwood represented the petitioners before the Supreme Court in Kellogg Brown & Root v. United States ex rel. Carter, involving False Claims Act whistleblower issues and in Elonis v. United States, considering the intersection of free speech, social media and criminal threat statutes. The Court ruled for his clients in both cases. Mr. Elwood also has won mandamus three times from the Fourth Circuit and DC Circuit in the last five years, successfully invoking attorney-client privilege to protect from disclosure internal investigation documents generated under corporate compliance programs.
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