Messing & Spector LLP litigates cases related to consumer rights, constitutional rights, and government misconduct. 

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The founding partners are friends who attended Yale Law School together, worked alongside one another at one of the nation’s premier litigation firms and, worked together in the U.S. Senate.

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Some of the matters handled by the firm's partners include:

 

• Representing four named plaintiffs in a putative class action in Manhattan to protect the constitutional rights of property owners.   

• Drafted a Supreme Court merits brief that achieved an 8-0 victory in a case interpreting the Hobbs Act.​

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• Prevailed in a Ninth Circuit case that reversed dismissal of a whistleblower's claim and established new protections for the rights of whistleblowers."                                                                                                                                                                                 

• Won multiple appeals of civil-rights claims in California's appellate courts, including one that helped a client achieve a seven-figure judgment after her case had been dismissed in full.                                                                                                 

• Filed an amicus brief that was cited and closely followed by a unanimous Supreme Court in a leading Fourth Amendment case concerning whether police may search, without a warrant, the contents of an arrested person’s mobile phone.

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• Served as counsel of record in a class action in Washington DC to protect the rights of retirees, on constitutional grounds, against having their vested pensions be reduced.                                                                                                           

• Field an amicus brief filed in multiple federal courts of appeals and district courts on behalf of a bipartisan group of former national security officials, in a successful challenge to the first Trump Administration’s executive order suspending travel into the United States from several Muslim-majority countries.

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• Filed a merits brief in a successful post-licensing challenge in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit to a Nuclear Regulatory Commission decision that would have enabled nuclear plants to store a large percentage of the nation’s nuclear waste on a Native American reservation.

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• Filed a successful summary judgment motion in federal district court in Greensboro, North Carolina in multi-billion-dollar antitrust litigation involving retail shelf space and promotional space.

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• Wrote a successful motion to dismiss a $2.2-billion fraud claim against a telecommunications company in Nevada state court.                                                                                                                                                                         

• Appealed a $110m business dispute involving racial discrimination in the Fourth Circuit.

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• Drafted successful briefs in opposition to petitions for a writ of certiorari to the U.S. Supreme Court, including cases that involved religious rights, tort liability, federal preemption, and forfeited property.