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August 19, 2015 | Supreme Court Brief

Since 2010, Justice Sonia Sotomayor has had a series of interns working for her at the court for brief periods, from two to four months long. College seniors or recent college graduates are preferred, and a legal background is not required. Sotomayor is the only justice with interns.

By Tony Mauro

4 minute read

August 19, 2015 | National Law Journal

After serving as dean of two law schools, president of a university and special master in a U.S. Supreme Court case, Paul Verkuil was handed a more daunting task in 2010: reviving a federal agency that had been zero-funded for 15 years.

By Tony Mauro

5 minute read

August 19, 2015 | National Law Journal

After serving as dean of two law schools, president of a university and special master in a U.S. Supreme Court case, Paul Verkuil was handed a more daunting task in 2010: reviving a federal agency that had been zero-funded for 15 years.

By Tony Mauro

5 minute read

August 17, 2015 | National Law Journal

The Bancroft law firm, which launched from its founder's home 12 years ago and then relocated to downtown Washington, has moved into bigger digs near Georgetown University Law Center. "We wanted more space, more light and more food trucks," firm founder Viet Dinh said Monday. The new office at 500 New Jersey Ave., N.W., is also convenient because Dinh and former solicitor general Paul Clement, a partner at the firm, teach at Georgetown Law.

By Tony Mauro

3 minute read

August 17, 2015 | National Law Journal

The Bancroft law firm, which launched from its founder's home 12 years ago and then relocated to downtown Washington, has moved into bigger digs near Georgetown University Law Center. "We wanted more space, more light and more food trucks," firm founder Viet Dinh said Monday. The new office at 500 New Jersey Ave., N.W., is also convenient because Dinh and former solicitor general Paul Clement, a partner at the firm, teach at Georgetown Law.

By Tony Mauro

3 minute read

August 13, 2015 | National Law Journal

Patent lawyer Howard Shipley, who escaped punishment by the U.S. Supreme Court in March for a jargon-filled brief he had filed that was written mainly by his client, has left Foley & Lardner to become a partner at Gordon & Rees.

By Tony Mauro

3 minute read

August 12, 2015 | National Law Journal

Patent lawyer Howard Shipley, who escaped punishment by the U.S. Supreme Court in March for a jargon-filled brief he had filed that was written mainly by his client, has left Foley & Lardner to become a partner at Gordon & Rees.

By Tony Mauro

3 minute read

August 12, 2015 | Supreme Court Brief

When Kermit Roosevelt clerked for U.S. Supreme Court Justice David Souter in 1999, he says, his loyalties were to the justice, the court and the law—in that order.

By Tony Mauro

5 minute read

August 12, 2015 | Corporate Counsel

Support for lifetime appointments to the Supreme Court is dropping.

By Tony Mauro

3 minute read

August 12, 2015 | Supreme Court Brief

When Kermit Roosevelt clerked for U.S. Supreme Court Justice David Souter in 1999, he says, his loyalties were to the justice, the court and the law—in that order.

By Tony Mauro

5 minute read