Rex Heinke
Partner, Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP, Los Angeles, CA
Rex is co-head of the firm's Supreme Court and appellate practice. He has argued almost a hundred and fifty appeals in federal and state courts throughout the country, involving, among other things, television camera access to courtrooms, alter ego, antitrust, attorneys’ fees, bankruptcy, billboards, class actions, complex business disputes, computer software, constitutional law, contracts, copyrights, criminal sentencing, defamation, docudramas, domestic and international arbitrations, drug testing, employment discrimination, environmental law, extraterritoriality of federal laws, false advertising, federal preemption, federal securities, foreign sovereign immunity, global warming, invasion of privacy, partition of real estate, personal jurisdiction/inconvenient forum, products liability, public records, reporters’ privilege, right of publicity, separation of powers, statutory interpretation, tax, telephone regulation, trademarks, trusts and estates, unfair competition, unsolicited faxes, wage and hour disputes, and wrongful termination. Recently, he has handled appeals or writs in the Second, Fifth, Seventh, Ninth, Tenth, and D.C. Circuits, the California Supreme Court, and the California Courts of Appeal, as well as cert. petitions in the U.S. Supreme Court. He is a fellow of the American and California Academies of Appellate Lawyers. Rex has lectured and written on appellate law for the University of Southern California, University of Houston, and University of California at Davis law schools. He has won numerous awards, including Best Lawyers in America’s L.A. Appellate Lawyer of the Year (2010), California Lawyer’s Lawyer of the Year (2009 and 2013), and Top 10 Southern California Super Lawyers (2014). He is a former member of the California Judicial Council and the California State Bar Board of Governors, and a past President of the Los Angeles County Bar Association.