Mr. Fisher is the co-chair of DWT's Appellate Practice Group. He has expertise in a wide variety of constitutional and federal statutory fields. Mr. Fisher has argued nine cases in the United States Supreme Court, including successfully representing the petitioners in the landmark cases of Crawford v. Washington, 541 U.S. 36 (2004), and Blakely v. Washington, 542 U.S. 296 (2004), and has participated in the certiorari and merits stages of dozens of others. He also has argued cases to several U.S. Courts of Appeals and state appellate courts.
In addition to his practice at DWT, Mr. Fisher is a professor at Stanford Law School, where he is co-director of the school’s Supreme Court Litigation Clinic. He has published numerous articles on various constitutional issues and regularly gives presentations to judicial conferences and to groups such as the American Bar Association, the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers, and the Association of American Law Schools.
In 2006, the National Law Journal named Mr. Fisher as one of the 100 Most Influential Lawyers in America. He also has received the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers' Robert C. Heeney Memorial Award and the Washington Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers’ William O. Douglas Award, the organizations’ highest honors.
Prior Experience
Served as a law clerk to Justice John Paul Stevens, United States Supreme Court, and to Judge Stephen Reinhardt, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Memberships and Activities
Washington State Bar Association
State Bar of California
Admitted to practice before the U.S. Supreme Court and several federal appellate courts
Associate Professor (Teaching), Stanford Law School
Co-chair, Amicus Committee of the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers (NACDL)
Co-chair, NACDL Supreme Court Oral Argument Committee
Named as one of the “Best Lawyers in America” in Appellate Law by Woodward/White
Education
J.D., University of Michigan Law School, 1997
- Notes Editor, Michigan Law Review
- Order of the Coif
B.A. in English, Duke University, 1992
