Lisa Helem, editor-in-chief of The National Law JournalDecember Editor's Note: Trump's Nominees and the Judges Who Shape Them
NLJ Editor-in-Chief Lisa Helem offers the highlights of NLJ's December issue, including a cover story by Ellis Kim and Tony Mauro, in which they unpack the judges supplying the ranks of President Donald Trump's nominees to the federal bench.
November 27, 2018 at 03:00 PM
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In our cover, we examine the feeder judges supplying the ranks of President Donald Trump's nominees to the federal bench.
As Trump and U.S. Senate Republicans continue their march to shape the federal bench, they've eyed at least five nominees who've worked in the chambers of U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit Judge David Sentelle. And with 44 percent of Trump's appellate nominees having U.S. Supreme Court clerkships on their resumes, which justices are supplying the most? In their respective cover package stories, Washington-based reporters Ellis Kim and Tony Mauro unpack the latest.
Next, in "One on One: Conversations with Newsmakers," Marcia Coyle catches up with Michael Bromwich, a veteran lawyer to high-profile clients who said "nothing during his more than 30 years in the law compared to one intense week on the legal team representing the woman who accused Brett Kavanaugh of sexual assault as he was poised to join the U.S. Supreme Court."
Next, we look back at the work of our 2018 Elite Trial Lawyers, a package and event that celebrates lawyers and law firms engaging in cutting-edge work on behalf of plaintiffs. Practice areas feted at The National Law Journal and ALM Media event in Las Vegas this fall included: antitrust, business torts, employment rights, mass torts and product liability.
This year's special honorees also included nine women lawyers named to The National Law Journal's inaugural class of the Elite Women of the Plaintiffs Bar, including Elizabeth Cabraser of Lieff Cabraser Heimann & Bernstein.
And in our column on the practice of law, Jeremy Silverman, an M&A partner in Alston & Bird's corporate and business transactions group, and Mark A. Wade Jr., an associate in the firm's construction and government contracts group, write about hot topics in contractor M&A transactions.
Lastly, take a gander at the latest legal moves from around the globe in Movers, compiled by Pearl Wu.
As always, we would love to hear from you. Email me at the address below or reach out on Twitter via @lhelemNLJ. Thanks for reading.
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