Showalter PLLC combines a lawyer whose credentials and record of performance place him at the very top of the appellate bar with an AI-augmented workflow and a flat-fee billing structure. The result is elite representation at a price point that traditional staffing models cannot match.
U.S. Supreme Court
Showalter has drafted merits and certiorari-stage briefs at the U.S. Supreme Court on behalf of clients including a defense contractor in a statutory-interpretation case, an energy company in a Takings Clause case, an automobile company in a retirement-plan case, an energy company in an administrative-law case, and a fitness company in a personal-jurisdiction case. He has also drafted Supreme Court amicus briefs, including a brief in the landmark case SEC v. Jarkesy that made arguments ultimately advanced by Justice Neil Gorsuch in a concurring opinion.
U.S. Courts of Appeals
Showalter has drafted dozens of briefs before the federal courts of appeals. These cases span constitutional law, administrative law, complex commercial litigation, statutory interpretation, and contract interpretation. He has presented oral argument before a D.C. Circuit panel on behalf of a broadband provider challenging an FCC order; the panel took the unusual step of praising his argument in its opinion.
Trial Courts
At Gibson Dunn, Showalter was a leader on a team representing a foreign mining company in a multijurisdictional effort to enforce an international arbitration award of approximately $500 million, which included prosecuting fraudulent-transfer claims against judgment debtors. Showalter PLLC currently represents a lender as lead counsel in a Virginia state-court action seeking money damages and emergency injunctive relief, and Showalter is serving on a trial team in a complex commercial matter pending in the Delaware Court of Chancery. Showalter has also drafted dozens of trial-court motions and dispositive briefs. And two years out of law school, he defeated Microsoft pro se in a trial-level adjudication before the U.S. Trademark Trial and Appeal Board.
Scholarship
Showalter has written ten published or forthcoming law review articles, including with the Harvard Journal of Law & Public Policy; George Mason Law Review; Wake Forest Law Review; and Georgetown Journal of Law & Public Policy. Showalter has also published in Law360 and Bloomberg Law. He has taught constitutional law at Catholic University and has presented at various law schools and legal organizations.
Credentials
Showalter clerked for Judge Diane Sykes on the Seventh Circuit and Judge Dabney Friedrich on DDC. He graduated near the top of his class from Yale Law School, where he was a senior editor for the Yale Law Journal.
Law & AI Thought Leadership
Showalter has written law review articles on law and AI published with the Notre Dame Law Review, Ohio State Law Journal, and SMU Law Review. Showalter's social media writing on law and AI has been viewed by hundreds of thousands. The AI Firm Index, a third-party directory and scoring system that evaluates law firms on AI integration, describes Showalter PLLC as "a genuinely interesting early-stage entrant" whose "ambition is credible."