Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP

Co-Head of Weil’s national Appeals and Strategic Counseling practice

Zachary Tripp is Co-Head of Weil’s national Appeals and Strategic Counseling practice. He joined Weil after serving for five years as an Assistant to the Solicitor General in the Office of the Solicitor General at the U.S. Department of Justice. He has extensive experience litigating before the U.S. Supreme Court as well as other appellate courts, in cases involving intellectual property, bankruptcy, antitrust, and securities, among other issues. He has argued 11 cases before the U.S. Supreme Court, briefed many other cases, and filed more than 100 briefs at the certiorari stage.

Zack received his B.A., cum laude, from Yale University in 1997. After working for several years as a software engineer, he received his J.D. from Columbia Law School in 2005, where he was a James Kent scholar and served as an Articles Editor of the Columbia Law Review. After graduating, Zack clerked for Judge Amalya Lyle Kearse of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, and for Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg of the U.S. Supreme Court.