R. Ted Cruz
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Asians, Litigators, Musical Chairs, R. Ted Cruz, SCOTUS, Supreme Court, Supreme Court Clerks
Musical Chairs: Jim Ho Replaces Ted Cruz as Texas SG
Congratulations to our old friend James Ho. The good news first surfaced on Sophistic Miltonian Serbonian Blog: A quiet trickle of a rumor last week was that James C. Ho, currently of counsel with Gibson Dunn and a former law clerk to Justice Thomas at SCOTUS, has been tapped to serve as the next Solicitor […] -
5th Circuit, Alice Fisher, Contests, Department of Justice, Enron, Eugene Scalia, Fabulosity, Gregory Coleman, Gregory Garre, Jeffrey Fisher, Kevin Newsom, Kids, Litigators, Neal Katyal, Paul Clement, R. Ted Cruz
Congratulations to the Fab Fifty: A Constellation of Young Legal Superstars
We love lists: the Forbes 400, the U.S. News college and law school rankings, or Washingtonian magazine’s list of 40 top lawyers under 40. We love lawyers — which is good, since we spend all day writing about them. And we love fabulous things. So you can imagine our delight upon seeing this feature from […] - Sponsored
Is The Future Of Law Distributed? Lessons From The Tech Adoption Curve
The rise of remote work has dramatically reshaped the relationship between Lawyers and Law Firms, see how Scale LLP has taken the steps to get… -
5th Circuit, Advertising, Announcements, Job Searches, R. Ted Cruz, SCOTUS, Supreme Court
Ted Cruz Is Looking for a Few Good... Appellate Lawyers
Many of you, especially those of you about to deposit Biglaw bonus checks, will update your résumés at the start of the new year. It’s a common time to jump to a new job, or to start looking for one. In the first few weeks of 2007, expect departure memos to go around like the […]
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Federalist Society, Parties, Pictures, R. Ted Cruz
ATL Party Crash: The Final Fed Soc Photos
Our series of photo posts from the Federalist Society National Lawyers Convention has been popular. The prior installments are available here, here, and here. Our camera is now emptied out. The last of our Fed Soc photos, after the jump. -
5th Circuit, Bad Ideas, Bar Exams, Email Scandals, Emily Pataki, Fast Food, Federalist Society, Food, Judicial Nominations, Politics, R. Ted Cruz, Senate Judiciary Committee, Sex, Week in Review
ATL Week in Review: November 13-17
* Emily Pataki, the attractive and accomplished daughter of New York governor George Pataki, failed the New York bar exam — and sent around an office-wide email about it. The story was broken by the mainstream media. * We heard from some of Emily’s law school classmates about the incident. In a reader poll, you […] -
5th Circuit, Federal Judges, J. Michael Luttig, Judicial Nominations, Politics, R. Ted Cruz, William Rehnquist
More Fifth Circuit Scuttlebutt: R. Ted Cruz
In our detailed review of possible nominees for the two open Fifth Circuit seats in Texas, we mentioned Texas’s Solicitor General, R. Ted Cruz, as a possible nominee. After we dropped his name, a number of you wrote in to share your thoughts about him (as frequently happens after we mention someone in these pages). […] -
5th Circuit, Alberto Gonzales, Federal Judges, Gregory Coleman, Harriet Miers, Jennifer Aniston, Jennifer Elrod, Judicial Nominations, R. Ted Cruz, Senate Judiciary Committee, State Judges, White House Counsel
Some Fifth Circuit Scuttlebutt
Thanks to everyone who responded to our request for gossip about possible Fifth Circuit judicial nominations. Your tips were very helpful to us, as was this piece in the Texas Lawyer. (And thanks to Peter Harrell, a current law student and former political reporter for Congressional Quarterly, for this insightful comment. A good point. With […]