With President-elect Donald Trump’s transition team announcing nominations to important positions almost daily, speculation within the appellate bar is intensifying about who will be the next U.S. solicitor general, the government’s top lawyer before the U.S. Supreme Court.
“It’s the dream job of any appellate lawyer,” said King & Spalding partner Bobby Burchfield, whose name has been mentioned as a possible nominee, among others. The late U.S. Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall, for all his stature in other positions, once said being the solicitor general was “the best job I ever had.”
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