Appellate
Amit R. Vora is Chair of Kasowitz LLP's Appellate & Constitutional Litigation practice group. He has extensive experience litigating before the U.S. Supreme Court and federal and state appellate courts nationwide. He represents companies and individuals in administrative, commercial, and patent disputes, and matters involving the First Amendment, separation of powers, due process, and other constitutional issues.
Amit previously served as Assistant Solicitor General with the New York State Attorney General’s Office. Amit was also a Supervising Attorney and Teaching Fellow with Georgetown University Law Center’s Appellate Courts Immersion Clinic, and he clerked for the Honorable Edward C. Prado, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit.
Amit is the author of several practice-oriented and scholarly pieces, including The Overlooked Equitable Path to Article III, Notice & Comment, Yale Journal on Regulation (2025); Constitutional Crowding and Article II, 85 Albany Law Review 857 (2022); and Defending an Under-21 Firearm Ban Under the Second Amendment, 71 Stanford Law Review Online 1 (2018).
Amit holds an LL.M. in appellate advocacy from Georgetown University Law Center, a J.D. from Harvard Law School, and a B.A. in cognitive science from Yale College. He also holds a certificate in economics of blockchain and digital assets from the University of Pennsylvania Wharton’s Executive Education Program.
Updated Nov 2025