Justice Sotomayor came to the district court from a law firm where she was a partner focused on complex commercial litigation, gaining insight in the workings of a global economy.

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This article is by Jonathan Green, counsel in the Complex Commercial Litigation Department, and James L. Athas, who focuses his practice on government and internal investigations, at the law firm Kaye Scholer.

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The regular appeals court handle all manner of complex subjects antitrust, copyright, commercial litigation, and so forth.

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