Louis Fisher is a litigation counsel in O’Melveny’s Los Angeles office with extensive experience litigating before all levels of state and federal judiciaries. Louis has represented clients across a range of industries—including technology and financial services companies, nonprofit organizations, and educational institutions—as well as public figures and officials. He has briefed case-dispositive motions and appeals across a variety of substantive areas, spanning high-stakes commercial litigations, class actions, and constitutional and civil rights cases. Louis has also represented individuals facing white collar criminal investigation and prosecution in federal court.
Prior to joining O’Melveny, Louis practiced at a litigation boutique and a civil rights organization in New York and served as a law clerk at the US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit and the US District Court for the Southern District of New York.
Louis serves as a Lecturer in Law at the University of Southern California (USC) Gould School of Law, teaching U.S. Common Law and Analysis.
Admissions
Bar Admissions
- California
- New York
Court Admissions
- US Court of Appeals for the Second, Fourth, Ninth, and Tenth Circuits
- US District Court for the Southern District of New York and Eastern District of New York
Education
- Harvard Law School, J.D.: magna cum laude; Executive Managing Editor, Harvard Civil Rights-Civil Liberties Law Review
- Columbia University, B.A., History and Psychology: summa cum laude; Phi Beta Kappa
Professional Activities
Clerkships
- The Honorable Stephen Reinhardt, US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
- The Honorable Holly A. Thomas, US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
- The Honorable Paul J. Oetken, US District Court for the Southern District of New York
Publications
- Criminal Justice User Fees and the Procedural Aspect of Equal Justice, 133 Harv. L. Rev. F. 112 (2020)
- “Expert Analysis: NY Housing Ruling Raises Bar For Retroactive Economic Regs,” with Roberta Kaplan and Alexander Rodney, Law360 (2020)
- Contracting Around the Constitution: An Anticommodificationist Perspective on Unconstitutional Conditions, 21 U. Penn. J. Const. L. 1167 (2018)
- Executive Enforcement Discretion and the Separation of Powers: A Case Study on the Constitutionality of DACA and DAPA, 120 W. Va. L. Rev. 131 (2017)