News that Paul Clement and the Bancroft firm would combine with Kirkland & Ellis took the rarified U.S. Supreme Court bar by complete surprise Monday.

“It was a shock. Nobody was expecting this,” said Lisa Blatt, head of Arnold & Porter’s Supreme Court practice and a longtime friend of Clement’s. “This is the biggest shake-up in the Supreme Court bar since Paul left King & Spalding in 2011.”

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