Merrick Garland
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Barack Obama, Merrick Garland, SCOTUS
President Barack Obama Condemns 'Washington Dysfunction,' Demands Judge Merrick Garland Be Given A Hearing
It's time to give this Supreme Court nominee a hearing. -
Boalt Hall, Elena Kagan, Harvard Law Review, Merrick Garland, SCOTUS, Stephen Breyer, Stephen Reinhardt, Weddings
Legal Eagle Wedding Watch: Left Out
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Are Small Firms Going Big On Legal Tech?
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Biglaw, John Roberts, Merrick Garland, Romance and Dating, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Supreme Court Clerks, Weddings, Williams & Connolly
Legal Eagle Wedding Watch: Wachtell It To My Heart
Time for another romp through the New York Times wedding pages to survey the latest and most impressive lawyer nuptials.
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Clerkships, Department of Justice, Fabulosity, Federal Government, Federal Judges, Feeder Judges, J. Harvie Wilkinson III, Merrick Garland, SCOTUS, Supreme Court, Supreme Court Clerks
Congratulations To The 2014 Bristow Fellows
Which law schools and lower-court judges send the most people into prestigious Bristow Fellowships at the U.S. Solicitor General's Office? -
Antonin Scalia, Frank Easterbrook, Harvard Law Review, John Roberts, Merrick Garland, Michael Boudin, Neil Gorsuch, Office of Legal Counsel, Sonia Sotomayor, Supreme Court Clerks, Weddings, Williams & Connolly
Legal Eagle Wedding Watch: Potomac (Wedding) Fever
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Conferences / Symposia, Constitutional Law, D.C. Circuit, David Sentelle, Federal Government, Federal Judges, Feeder Judges, Laurence Silberman, Merrick Garland, Money
New D.C. Circuit Chief Judge Dreading the Sequester
The D.C. Circuit's new chief judge and two of his colleagues spoke at a conference over the weekend. What did Their Honors have to say? -
Brett Kavanaugh, Clerkships, D.C. Circuit, Federal Government, Federal Judges, Feeder Judges, Job Searches, Law Schools, Merrick Garland
The Law Clerk Hiring Plan: Really, Really Dead Now
Can the Law Clerk Hiring Plan survive, now that one super-prestigious court has announced that it's abandoning ship? -
Anthony Kennedy, Antonin Scalia, Barack Obama, Clarence Thomas, Elena Kagan, Fashion, Fashion Is Fun, Federal Judges, John Roberts, Merrick Garland, Neal Katyal, SCOTUS, SCOTUS Potential, Supreme Court
The Supreme Court in President Obama's Second Term
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Early Adopters Of Legal AI Gaining Competitive Edge In Marketplace
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Anthony Kennedy, Brett Kavanaugh, David Souter, Guido Calabresi, Harvard, J. Michael Luttig, John Paul Stevens, Merrick Garland, Munger Tolles & Olson, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Sonia Sotomayor, Supreme Court Clerks, Weddings
Legal Eagle Wedding Watch: Term of Endearment
This latest Legal Eagle Wedding Watch features crazy competition: five Supreme Court clerks, a former White House counsel, and more prestige than you shake a stick at. -
Goldman Sachs, Harvard, Merrick Garland, New York Times, Supreme Court Clerks, Weddings
Legal Eagle Wedding Watch: Out of Africa
We are in July -- peek wedding season. Take a look at these three newlywed couples and marvel at their credentials and overall fabulous qualities. -
A. Raymond Randolph, Department of Justice, Federal Government, Merrick Garland, Neil Gorsuch, SCOTUS, Solicitor General's Office, Supreme Court, William Fletcher
Congratulations to the 2011 Bristow Fellows
Federal government lawyers are having their pay frozen. But let’s face it: you don’t don’t go into government service for the money. You might do it for the experience. You might do it for the lifestyle. And, depending on the position, you might do it for the prestige. Someone once said to me, “You can’t […] -
Elena Kagan, Law Professors, Merrick Garland, SCOTUS, Sidney Thomas, Supreme Court
What Happens Next to the Unsuccessful Shortlisters?And a correction: Kagan and Dan Meltzer are besties.
Now that the fabulous Elena Kagan has been officially nominated to succeed Justice John Paul Stevens on the Supreme Court, some folks have been wondering: What does the future hold for the unsuccessful shortlisters? Let’s consider them, one by one. 1. Judge Merrick Garland (D.C. Cir.): The brilliant D.C. Circuit judge — practically a “tenth […] -
Barack Obama, Diane Wood, Elena Kagan, Gender, John Paul Stevens, Merrick Garland, Politics, SCOTUS, SCOTUS Potential, Sidney Thomas, Supreme Court
SCOTUS Speculation: Could It Be Wood?Ten reasons Obama might appoint Diane Wood.
Now that President Obama has interviewed the four finalists for the U.S. Supreme Court seat he has to fill — Judge Merrick Garland (D.C. Cir.), Solicitor General Elena Kagan, Judge Sidney Thomas (9th Cir.), and Judge Diane Wood (7th Cir) — the nominee could be announced any day now. Who will it be? We realize […]
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Diane Wood, Elena Kagan, Fantasy SCOTUS, Merrick Garland, SCOTUS, Supreme Court
FantasySCOTUS Predictions of the Next Justice: Team Kagan v. Team Wood v. Team Garland
Who will replace Justice John Paul Stevens? While pundits, savants, and oracles across the SCOTUSphere pontificate and read Article III tea leaves, FantasySCOTUS.net conducted extensive and detailed polling to predict the next Justice. We have invited our nearly 5,000 members – who represent some of the closest and most ardent Court watchers – to weigh […] -
Diane Wood, Elena Kagan, John Paul Stevens, Merrick Garland, SCOTUS, SCOTUS Potential, Supreme Court
Supreme Speculation: Who Will Obama Nominate to Replace John Paul Stevens?
For weeks, the media laundry machine has been circulating news of Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens’s impending retirement. Now that the buzzer has gone off on that, it’s time to switch to the next cycle: speculation as to who President Barack Obama will nominate to replace him. President Obama has been dragging his feet […] -
Diarmuid O'Scannlain, Jon Newman, Merrick Garland, New York Times, Stephen Breyer, Supreme Court Clerks, Weddings
Legal Eagle Wedding Watch 9.6: The Point Is Probably Moot
LEWW’s memory isn’t what it once was, but we can’t recall a stronger week in legal nuptials than this one. All six of our featured newlyweds are truly impressive, and a few are even interesting! And not to give anything away, but if you love SCOTUS clerks (and oh, we do!) prepare to curl your […] -
American Constitution Society (ACS), Conferences / Symposia, Free Speech, Media and Journalism, Merrick Garland, Technology
At the ACS National Convention: The Internet and the First Amendment
The second panel we attended at the recent convention of the American Constitution Society (ACS) focused on a topic near and dear to our heart: free speech on the internet. The panel, The Internet Revolution and Its Effect on the First Amendment, featured the following participants: Judge Merrick B. Garland, U.S. Court of Appeals for […] -
John Roberts, Merrick Garland, Nauseating Things, New York Times, Supreme Court Clerks, Weddings
Legal Eagle Wedding Watch: Deb-acle!
LEWW salutes Laura Marshall Worth, a direct descendant of Chief Justice John Marshall, who celebrated her wedding last weekend. Laura wasted a great law-school admissions essay and became a teacher, so this hat-tip is all she gets. Here are our three lucky finalist-couples: 1. Rebecca Ingber and Anton Metlitsky 2. Alexandra Flood and Samuel Alcoff […] -
David Boies, Education / Schools, Erwin Chemerinsky, Fabulosity, Federal Judges, Laurence Tribe, Law Professors, Merrick Garland, Peter Barta, Samuel Alito, Supreme Court Clerks, Thomas Goldstein
Our Apologies to All Former Policy Debaters (Except the Creepy Ones)
In a recent post about Peter Barta, the Legal Aid lawyer who allegedly videotaped his female colleagues as they were getting undressed, we ranked on policy debaters. Maybe we should take it back. From a highly informative reader email: Not all former policy debaters are creeps. Here’s a list of former policy debaters who are […] -
Antonin Scalia, John Paul Stevens, Merrick Garland, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, SCOTUS, Supreme Court, Supreme Court Clerks
Supreme Court Clerk Hiring Watch: OT 2008 (Update #1)
The Supreme Court hasn’t yet finished up for October Term 2006 (which should end tomorrow). The law clerks for October Term 2007 will start arriving next month. But many of them have already started hiring clerks for October Term 2008. We reported on some of those hires back in this post. And now we have […]