WASHINGTON – Former U.S. Solicitor General Paul Clement yesterday resigned from King & Spalding to protest the firm’s decision to withdraw from the defense of a federal law prohibiting the recognition of same-sex couples.

Mr. Clement said he will continue working on the litigation on behalf of U.S. House Republicans from Bancroft, a small Washington, D.C., litigation firm. In a two-page letter to King & Spalding’s chairman, Robert Hays Jr., Mr. Clement, who was the firm’s lead attorney on the case, pointedly disagreed with the firm’s handling of the matter.

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