Archith Ramkumar

Associate

Archith is an experienced litigator who has briefed and argued cases in numerous courts of appeals and district courts across the country.  Archith is well-versed in all aspects of district court and appellate litigation, and, having worked at three different government agencies, has particular expertise in handling complex statutory and constitutional issues arising in the context of litigation brought under the Administrative Procedure Act.  As an example, while working in the Securities and Exchange Commission’s appellate group, Archith was the lead attorney in a Ninth Circuit appeal involving a First Amendment challenge to the Commission’s policy governing settlement agreements.

Prior to joining Meier Watkins Phillips Pusch, and before he joined the Securities and Exchange Commission, Archith worked as an appellate attorney at the Department of Labor and handled both district court and appellate litigation in the Department of Justice’s Office of Immigration Litigation.  He also served as a law clerk to the Honorable T.S. Ellis III of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia and the Honorable Dennis Jacobs of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit.

Education

  • University of Virginia School of Law, J.D., 2013

  • Duke University, B.S. in Engineering, 2010

Experience

  • Appellate Counsel, Securities and Exchange Commission, 2022-2025

  • Counsel for Appellate Litigation, Department of Labor, Mine Safety and Health Subdivision, 2020-2022

  • Trial Attorney, Department of Justice, Office of Immigration Litigation, 2019-2020

  • Associate, Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan, 2013-2014 & 2016-2019

  • Law Clerk, The Hon. Dennis Jacobs, United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, 2015-2016

  • Law Clerk, The Hon. T.S. Ellis III, United States District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia, 2014-2015

Admissions

  • District of Columbia

  • New York

  • United States Supreme Court

  • United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit

  • United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit

  • United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit

  • United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit

  • United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit

  • United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit