Seth Galanter's primary focus is on Supreme Court and appellate litigation. He has argued more than 40 cases in the federal courts of appeals, including in 11 of the 12 regional courts of appeals. The cases have involved a range of issues, including the constitutional limits on RICO claims, the prerequisites for administrative deference, the availability of private rights of action under federal statutes, and the scope and interpretation of federal disability and voting rights laws. His recent work has involved banking, energy law, and intellectual property matters, as well as general statutory and constitutional litigation. Mr. Galanter recently argued a case in the Supreme Court of the United States regarding the scope of an important attorneys' fee statute.
Mr. Galanter received his J.D. from the University of Pennsylvania Law School in 1993, where he served as an Articles Editor on the University of Pennsylvania Law Review and was elected to the Order of the Coif.
Prior to joining Morrison & Foerster, Mr. Galanter worked at the United States Department of Justice from 1994 until 2002. He initially served as a Bristow Fellow in the Office of the Solicitor General. He later worked as an appellate attorney in the Appellate Section of the Civil Rights Division where he briefed and argued cases in the courts of appeals. Mr. Galanter also worked closely with the Office of the Solicitor General in the preparation of briefs and argument for cases pending in the Supreme Court of the United States.