Supreme Court Clerks
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Asians, Eavesdropping / Wiretapping, Food, HP, Larry Sonsini, Law Professors, Supreme Court Clerks, Viet Dinh
Viet Dinh Is One Hungry Guy
Remember Professor Viet Dinh? If not, here’s what we previously wrote about him: Dinh represents venture capitalist god Thomas Perkins, in Perkins’s (rather tense) dealings with HP’s board and lawyers [concerning the HP spying controversy]. Dinh, for those of you visiting from other planets, is one of the highest-flying legal eagles in the country. He’s […] -
Celebrities, Fabulosity, Feldsuk, Hotties, Jeannie Suk, Law Professors, Law Schools, Media and Journalism, Musical Chairs, Nauseating Things, Noah Feldman, Noajeannie, Supreme Court Clerks
Musical Chairs: Professor Noah Feldman Is Leaving NYU for Harvard!
Professor Noah Feldman — the brilliant, gorgeous, legal academic superstar / public intellectual — is abandoning NYU Law School (its student body hotness notwithstanding). He’s heading up to Harvard Law School, where his similarly beautiful and brainy wife, Jeannie Suk, is already on the faculty. (Most readers of ATL are probably familiar with this celebrity […] - Sponsored
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Anna Schneider-Mayerson, Law Professors, New York Observer, Richard Posner, Stephen Breyer, Supreme Court Clerks, Tim Wu
Wherein We Receive An Email from Celebrity Law Prof Tim Wu
Although we mentioned it in passing, we didn’t give adequate attention to Anna Schneider-Mayerson’s delightful profile of Tim Wu when it appeared earlier this month in the New York Observer. (It was discussed on several other prominent blogs.) Now we have an excuse to double back and correct the error: We’ve received an email from […]
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David Boies, Deaths, Lexis-Nexis, Supreme Court, Supreme Court Clerks
Will There Be a Red Flag on His Tombstone?
Probably not, ’cause that’s Westlaw. H. Donald Wilson, who passed away earlier this month, was the founder of Lexis-Nexis. Fittingly enough for a man responsible for placing thousands of lawyers in front of their computer screens, for thousands of hours a year, Wilson died in front of his computer. An interesting tidbit from the New […] -
Antonin Scalia, Fabulosity, Fashion, Federalist Society, Laurence Silberman, Parties, Supreme Court, Supreme Court Clerks, Ted Frank
From the Belly of the Beast: An Evening With Scalito (Part 1)
We previously provided you with our photographic coverage of the Federalist Society’s annual dinner, held last Thursday at the Marriott Wardman Park in Washington, DC. Now we offer a short (and admittedly belated) write-up of the proceedings. For more systematic accounts of the dinner, check out the news links collected at the end of this […] -
Dan Markel, Eyes of the Law, Jan Crawford Greenburg, John Roberts, Samuel Alito, SCOTUS, Supreme Court, Supreme Court Clerks
Supreme Court Justices: "They're Going to Miami"
We’d pay a king’s ransom for an update of the music video for “Miami.” Instead of showing Will Smith frolicking with bikini-clad beauties, the new version would feature Chief Justice Roberts and Justice Alito, shaking their bon-bons with surgically-enhanced sirens. If this sounds unlikely, consider: Winter is still weeks away, but Supreme Court justices are […] -
Antonin Scalia, Eyes of the Law, SCOTUS, Supreme Court, Supreme Court Clerks
The Eyes of the Law: Did Poor Justice Scalia Have to Spend the Night in New Haven?
Last Thursday, Justice Antonin Scalia spoke before the Yale Political Union (an appearance we discussed here). And on Friday morning, Justice Scalia made an appearance at (the) Yale Law School. Justice Scalia was introduced by his former clerk, the beautiful and brilliant Professor Christine Jolls. This past June, Professor Jolls was lured away from Harvard […] -
Bad Ideas, Email Scandals, Romance and Dating, SCOTUS Clerks Are Fair Game, Supreme Court Clerks
The Messy Love Lives of Supreme Court Clerks
Normally we might think twice about posting an e-mail like this, since it’s somewhat personal in nature. But it has been making its way around the D.C. law firm email circuit, and we’ve received it from multiple sources. By now, dozens of Biglaw associates in Washington have a copy of this email in their inbox. […] - Sponsored
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Boutique Law Firms, Interview Stories, Rudeness, Supreme Court Clerks
Interview Horror Stories: SCOTUS Clerks Can Be Really Rude
Supreme Court clerks, aka “the Elect,” are gods and goddesses of the legal profession. But as our latest interview horror story shows, they aren’t perfect — at least not all the time. Sometimes SCOTUS clerks let their lofty status go to their heads, treating the Great Unwashed like “the little people.”* Check out our latest […] -
Biglaw, Bonuses, Lori Alvino, Money, SCOTUS, SCOTUS Clerks Are Fair Game, Supreme Court, Supreme Court Clerks
Last Year's Supreme Court Clerks: Where Are They Now?
If you’re wondering where your favorite October Term 2005 Supreme Court clerk wound up — like, for example, this Kathryn Judge groupie — the National Law Journal has the answers. Check out this juicy article (free access): Latham & Watkins is the “in” spot this year for recent U.S. Supreme Court clerks leaving the rarified […] -
Supreme Court Clerks
Justice Alito's Clerks: Your Help Is Still Needed
We haven’t forgotten about our pledge to profile the current class of Supreme Court clerks (for October Term 2006). As previously explained, we’ll start with the clerks to the most junior justice, Samuel Alito. Here’s the rub. We don’t quite have enough information — in terms of interesting tidbits, fun facts, or amusing anecdotes — […] -
9th Circuit, A. Wallace Tashima, Asians, Benchslaps, Betty Fletcher, Election Law, Supreme Court, Supreme Court Clerks, William Fletcher
Benchslapped: The Arizona Voter ID Ruling
We realize we’re late on this, since the news broke on Friday. But at the time, we thought Purcell v. Gonzalez was just a run-of-the-mill Supreme Court ruling. We didn’t realize it featured delicious benchslaps of the Ninth Circuit, the lower court whose decision was vacated. The state of Arizona adopted a rule for next […] -
Supreme Court Clerks
Justice Alito's Clerks: Tidbits, Please
Readers, thanks for the reminder. It’s time for us to start up our series of profiles of this year’s crop of Supreme Court clerks (the October Term 2006 law clerks, currently clerking at the Court). We’ll still go chambers by chambers, as we did before. But this time we’ll start with the most junior justice, […]
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Douglas Ginsburg, Eyes of the Law, John Roberts, Lori Alvino, Matthew McGill, Miguel Estrada, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Supreme Court, Supreme Court Clerks, Ted Olson, Weddings
The Eyes of the Law: Wedding Crashers
Yesterday Lori Alvino and Matthew McGill crushed their competition in Legal Eagle Wedding Watch. And perhaps their margin of victory should have been even larger. We would have given them extra points had we known about these legal celebrity sightings at their wedding: Not that Matt McGill and Lori Alvino McGill need more praise from […] -
Clarence Thomas, Clerkships, Diarmuid O'Scannlain, Hotties, Supreme Court, Supreme Court Clerks
SCOTUS Clerk Hiring Watch: Justice Thomas Into OT 2009
While we were in Portland, Oregon, for the law clerk reunion in celebration of Ninth Circuit Judge Diarmuid O’Scannlain’s 20th anniversary on the bench, we took oodles and oodles of pictures. We shared two of them with you yesterday. We’ll be publishing more photographs from the reunion in the near future. Unfortunately, it’s taking us […] -
Alex Kozinski, Anthony Kennedy, Brett Gerry, Department of Justice, Hotties, John Demers, Ken Wainstein, Supreme Court Clerks, U.S. Attorneys Offices
Musical Chairs: The Women of NSD
Last week we wrote about the A-team of legal talent that Assistant Attorney General Kenneth L. Wainstein is assembling over at the Justice Department’s new National Security Division. Wainstein’s top hires include several members of the Elect, including high-flying legal eagles Brett Gerry (Silberman/Kennedy) and John Demers (O’Scannlain/Scalia). A press release issued this morning announces […] -
Alice Fisher, Brett Gerry, Confirmations, Department of Justice, John Demers, Ken Wainstein, Supreme Court Clerks, War on Terror
Congratulations to Ken Wainstein!
Okay, so he’s no Alice Fisher — the ball-busting, badass blonde, recently confirmed to head the DOJ’s Criminal Division, who has white-collar criminals shaking in their boots. But he’s still a highly regarded attorney — and pretty cute, too. So ATL sends its congratulations to Kenneth L. Wainstein, just confirmed by the Senate as assistant […] -
Cert Pool, Harvard, John Paul Stevens, John Roberts, Samuel Alito, SCOTUS, Supreme Court, Supreme Court Clerks
Roberts and Alito, Skinnydipping in the Cert Pool
From the same Tony Mauro column that discussed Chief Justice Roberts’s new summer house comes this update on the SCOTUS cert pool: [T]he Supreme Court’s two newest justices have decided, at least temporarily, to stick with the Court’s clerk-pooling arrangement…. [B]oth Chief Justice John Roberts Jr. and Justice Samuel Alito Jr. said they will stay […] -
SCOTUS Clerks Are Fair Game, Supreme Court, Supreme Court Clerks
Supreme Court Clerks Are Fair Game: Part 5
Usually we respond to reader comments — which we always welcome, whether good, bad, or indifferent — in the comments. But some comments merit fuller treatment, like this one: I still find it hard to fathom how gossip about these clerks adds to the public discourse. Given that the clerks are not going to be […] -
Antonin Scalia, Blog Wars, Blogging, Clarence Thomas, Federal Judges, Hotties, Non-Sequiturs, SCOTUS, Supreme Court, Supreme Court Clerks
Non-Sequiturs: 09.19.06
* We haven’t bothered to mix it up with our various critics, mostly out of sheer laziness. You don’t read us, we don’t read you; it’s a fair trade. But the description of the fracas in Blawg Review #75 makes launching a “blog war” sound kinda fun. [Concurring Opinions] * Now we know why bankers […]