George T. Conway III
Not many Wall Street lawyers working on the side litigate a case that nearly leads to the overthrowing of the president of the United States, but George Conway pulled that one off.
—Professor Steven Calabresi of Northwestern Law, in an op-ed for The Hill entitled, Trump’s solicitor general should be the man who took on Bill Clinton. Conway famously worked, in a behind-the-scenes capacity, on Clinton v. Jones.
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(It’s not clear who will be the next SG, especially in the wake of Chuck Cooper withdrawing from consideration.)
David Lat is the founder and managing editor of Above the Law and the author of Supreme Ambitions: A Novel. He previously worked as a federal prosecutor in Newark, New Jersey; a litigation associate at Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz; and a law clerk to Judge Diarmuid F. O’Scannlain of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. You can connect with David on Twitter (@DavidLat), LinkedIn, and Facebook, and you can reach him by email at [email protected].