Eamon P Joyce

Practice Areas

EAMON JOYCE has handled dozens of cases in the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, arguing many, has handled appeals in nearly every other circuit, and has filed more than 50 merits and certiorari-stage briefs in the United States Supreme Court. His clients have prevailed in cases he argued before the United States Courts of Appeals for the Second, Sixth and Eleventh, and D.C. Circuits, and before the New York Court of Appeals and the Appellate Division of the New York Supreme Court. Eamon’s appeals have addressed a wide range of issues, including Article III standing, federal preemption, federal jurisdiction, class action procedure, the Federal Arbitration Act, securities, shareholder rights, administrative law, punitive damages, and constitutional law.

Eamon also regularly serves as a first-chair lawyer in the federal district courts, in cases presenting difficult and novel legal questions. He has argued dispositive motions and against class certification motions, and litigated evidentiary hearings on class certification. He has litigated class actions brought under many different substantive areas of law, and he has significant experience in representing clients on appeal and in district court in cybersecurity and data breach class action litigations.

Eamon serves as the chair of the firmwide Pro Bono and Public Interest Law Committee. In his own pro bono practice, he has litigated many different civil rights issues and has represented criminal defendants on direct appeal and in post-conviction proceedings, including in capital punishment cases.