Wednesday, May 1, 2024

SCOTUS players

Bloomberg Law has Jones Day Leads in Supreme Court Arguments With New Faces, noting:

  • Five Jones Day attorneys took to the US Supreme Court lectern this term, making the DC-based giant the firm with the most arguments.
  • Attorneys for Gibson Dunn, Hogan Lovells, and Williams & Connolly argued four cases for their firms.
  • Gibson Dunn sent three newcomers to the lectern, including partner Theane Evangelis, associate D. Nick Harper, and Eugene Scalia, the son of the late Justice Antonin Scalia. Hogan Lovells’ Jessica Ellsworth made her first and second arguments this term, including in the challenge to the abortion drug mifepristone.
  • Of the 152 total arguments, more than half were argued by attorneys making at least their fifth appearance. A quarter were first-timers.
Speaking of SCOTUS, the headliner at the Pepperdine University Caruso School of Law Dinner (Sept. 21 @ the Fairmont Century Plaza) will be Justice Amy Coney Barrett.