Amit Vora’s practice focuses on complex litigation in federal and state courts, with a particular focus on appellate litigation.  His experience includes representing companies and individuals in commercial, securities, and intellectual property disputes, and matters involving constitutional and public interest issues.

Amit has broad appellate experience.  He has filed scores of briefs, including in the United States Supreme Court, and he has presented numerous oral arguments, including before the Fifth, Seventh, Ninth, and D.C. Circuits, eight times before the Second Circuit, and over a dozen times before the New York State Supreme Court’s Appellate Division.

Amit previously served as Assistant Solicitor General with the New York State Attorney General’s Office.  There, he litigated federal and state appeals involving constitutional and administrative issues.

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 active in bar associations and legal committees.  He is Director of the South Asian Bar Association of New York and Chair of its Judiciary Committee, which vets and endorses candidates for federal and state judgeships.  In addition, he serves The Appellate Project as a mentor, and he serves on the pro bono panels for the Second, Fourth, and Fifth Circuits.

Amit is the author of several practice-oriented and scholarly pieces, including “What Grayscale’s Victory in Bitcoin Case Means for Crypto Market,” Bloomberg Law (2023); “Constitutional Crowding and the Problem of Executive Knavery,” 85 Albany Law Review, Issue No. 4 (2022); and “Defending an Under-21 Firearm Ban under the Second Amendment,” 71 Stanford Law Review Online 1 (2018).  He was a speaker at the New York State Bar Association’s Commercial Litigation Academy panel on Civil Appeals and Argument (2024).  He holds a certificate in Economics of Blockchain and Digital Assets from the University of Pennsylvania Wharton’s Executive Education Program.