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'A Lion of the Law': O'Melveny's Walter Dellinger III, Former Acting US Solicitor General, Dead at 80 -- Dellinger was a celebrated constitutional scholar who served as acting solicitor general in the Clinton administration and led the appellate and Supreme Court practice at O'Melveny & Myers.
- Dellinger graduated from Yale Law School and clerked for U.S. Supreme Court Justice Hugo Black during the court’s 1968-69 term.
- named acting solicitor general for the 1996-97 Supreme Court term. He argued a total of 24 cases before the justices, nine cases during his tenure as acting solicitor general.
