Hamish Hume

PROFILE

Hamish Hume's main practice areas are trial and appellate litigation. He is a general litigator, with substantial expertise in a variety of areas of law.

Mr. Hume has argued and won important cases in courts throughout the country. He has also successfully managed several complex commercial cases, and has substantial trial experience, including cross-examining both fact and expert witnesses and presenting closing argument. Mr. Hume has also authored numerous Supreme Court and appellate briefs.

Mr. Hume has exceptionally broad experience in a number of important areas of law. He has successfully litigated a wide array of commercial disputes, as well as cases raising cutting-edge legal issues under the First Amendment, the Takings Clause, the Foreign Sovereign Immunity Act (and head of state immunity), the Alien Tort Claims Act, the Sherman Act, the Internal Revenue Code, and the False Claims Act. The cases Mr. Hume has handled have had unusually high stakes: he has litigated several cases where the amounts at issue exceeded a billion dollars; he has represented State governments and officials, including a State Governor, in defending the constitutionality of voting laws and health care programs; he has cross-examined senior executives of Fortune 500 companies, a former United State Senator, and a variety of expert witnesses; and he has represented human rights victims against the President and ruling party of Zimbabwe.

Prior to joining Boies, Schiller & Flexner, Mr. Hume was a partner in the Washington, D.C. firm of Cooper & Kirk. While at Cooper & Kirk, Mr. Hume worked both on constitutional cases and on complex commercial cases, and co-authored more than half a dozen Supreme Court briefs. Representative work includes: successfully arguing a summary judgment motion and cross-examining expert witnesses on behalf of a multi-billion dollar thrift that resulted in a judgment of $109 million against the United States; successfully arguing on behalf of the former Director of the Drug Enforcement Administration in an Alien Tort Claims Act case before the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals; successfully arguing a summary judgment motion on behalf of the State of Florida against a constitutional challenge to Florida's felon disenfranchisement policy; working on the constitutional challenge to the McCain-Feingold statute.

Mr. Hume also has substantial experience in tax law. Prior to joining Cooper & Kirk, Mr. Hume was associated from 1994 to 1997 with Ivins, Phillips & Barker, where he worked successfully on a variety of complex tax matters.

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Education

University of Virginia School of Law, J.D., 1994; Member, University of Virginia Law Review
Oxford University, B.A., Jurisprudence, 1992; Oxford Rowing Blue, 1991 and 1992
Yale University, B.A., cum laude, Humanities, 1990; Distinction in the Major; Captain, Yale Heavyweight Rowing

Language Spoken

Spanish

Admissions

New York and the District of Columbia
United States Supreme Court
United States Courts of Appeals: Second, Ninth, District of Columbia, and Federal Circuits
United States District Courts: Southern District of New York, District of Columbia, and Maryland
United States Court of Federal Claims and United States Tax Court

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Firm Newsletter: Winter 2010 (02.17.2010)
Firm Report: January 2008 (Vol. 3, Issue I) (01.22.2008)
Firm Report: July/August 2007 (Vol. 2, Issue II) (08.22.2007)
Firm Report: April 2007 (Vol. 2, Issue I) (04.01.2007)
Firm Report: November 2006 (Vol. 1, Issue III (11.01.2006)
Firm Report: July 2006 (Vol. 1, Issue II) (07.01.2006)

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