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Edward Bruce is the senior member of the appellate practice group and is located in our Washington, DC office.
Nearly all of the cases that Mr. Bruce has handled involve the federal government as a party or turn upon questions of federal law ranging from administrative law, communications, constitutional law, environmental law, federal financial institutions, and intellectual property, including both copyrights and patents. Mr. Bruce has been counsel of record in nearly 80 appeals (four of which have been in the United States Supreme Court). In doing so, he has handled more appeals at Covington than any other lawyer in the firm’s history.
Representative Matters
- Mobil Oil v. U.S., 530 U.S. 604 (2000)
- Amoco Production v. Village of Gambell, 480 U.S. 531 (1987)
- Secretary of the Interior v. California, 464 U.S. 312
- New York v. Kleppe, 429 U.S. 1307 (1976)
- American Bankers Ass’n v. Lockyer, 419 F.3d 989 (9th Cir. 2005)
- Bank of America v. San Francisco, 309 F.3d 551 (9th Cir. 2002)
- California v. Norton, 311 F.3d 1162 (9th Cir. 2002)
- Exxon Research and Engineering v. U.S., 265 F.3d 1249 (Fed. Cir. 2001)
- General Electric v. U.S. Dept. of Commerce, 130 F.3d 767 (D.C. Cir. 1997)
- Bell Atlantic v. FCC, 79 F.3d 1195 (D.C. Circ. 1996)
- Exxon Shipping Co., v. Dept. of the Interior, 34 F.3d 774 (9th Cir. 1994)
Honors and Rankings
- Edward Coke Inn of Court, Past President
- American Law Institute, Member
- American Academy of Appellate Lawyers, Member
- ABA Appellate Institute, Faculty Member
- Best Lawyers in America, Administrative and Appellate Law (2007)
- The National Law Journal identified Mr. Bruce as one of the several “standouts -- leading [patent law] practitioners in the Federal Circuit” (2001)
- American Lawyer, named as one of the two leading environmental lawyers in the United States
Pro Bono
- Ed Bruce has been actively involved in the firm’s pro bono practice, formerly as lead counsel in arguing six cases in the DC Circuit or the DC Court of Appeals, and more recently as a senior lawyer assisting his partners and associates with their cases in the Supreme Court or U.S. Courts of Appeal.
Memberships and Affiliations
- Yale Law School Alumni Fund Board
- Yale Law School Alumni Association
- Three-person committee appointed by Yale’s President to report on the state of the Yale Law School.
- Young Concert Artists of Washington Board
- Washington Area Lawyers for the Arts Board
- Audubon Naturalist Society Board
- Cornell Lab of Ornithology Administrative Board
Publications and Speeches
- "National Bank Act Preemption Litigation," Practicing Law Institute (2004), Co-Author
- "Oral Argument Bank of America v. City and County of San Francisco," (9th Cir. 2002) C-SPAN (1/1/2002)
- "Oral Argument, SeaRiver Maritime v. Minetta," (9th Cir. 2002) C-SPAN (January 2000)
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