Roman Martinez is a partner in the D.C. law firm Latham & Watkins. He’s a member of the firm’s Supreme Court & Appellate Practice, focusing primarily on appeals in the Supreme Court of the United States, the U. S. Courts of Appeal, and state appellate courts. Roman worked on civil and criminal matters involving a wide range of constitutional, statutory, and administrative law issues. He argued nine cases in the Supreme Court, including cases in the fields of the First Amendment to the Constitution, criminal law, civil rights, employment, and civil procedure. He also works on pro bono cases, mainly involving veterans’ affairs. Martinez personally argued nine cases in the Supreme Court, including important cases in the fields of the First Amendment, patent law, criminal law, civil rights, employment, and civil procedure. He has filed more than 75 briefs in the Supreme Court involving a wide range of legal issues, including tax, securities, intellectual property, criminal, environmental, education, civil rights, and First Amendment law. Over the past two years, Mr. Martinez has led Latham appellate teams in cases involving the First Amendment, Administrative Procedure Act, securities, the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA), products liability, tort, criminal, and employment law. He persuaded the Supreme Court to grant certiorari in three cases over the past two Terms. Earlier this year, he prevailed 8-1 in Babb v. Wilkie, an important case establishing the rules for federal-sector employer liability under the Age Discrimination in Employment Act. He also represented respondents in Barr v. American Association of Political Consultants, persuading the Court to invalidate a portion of the Telephone Consumer Protection Act under the First Amendment. Before joining Latham, Roman was a law clerk to Chief Justice John Roberts. Register with Little Falls Village.