Good morning and welcome to Supreme Court Brief. The justices finish their first week of the March argument session with one case and eight justices on the bench. Justice Clarence Thomas, who was admitted to the hospital with an infection on Friday, has not yet returned to the court. Latham & Watkins has five arguments this term. We speak with those lawyers about their stand-out term. Plus, scroll down to read about the 1999-2000 term when Supreme Court nominee Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson was a clerk.

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(l-r) Latham & Watkins partners Gregory Garre, Melissa Arbus Sherry, and Roman Martinez. Photos: Diego M. Radzinschi/ALM

Latham & Watkins's Very Good Term

When Latham & Watkins partner Roman Martinez stands at the lectern this morning for his oral argument, he will be the firm's third lawyer to argue this term. Next week, the firm's special counsel Scott Ballenger will take his turn at the lectern. They follow on the heels of colleagues Gregory Garre and Melissa Sherry who argued earlier in term. And Martinez will be back in April for the firm's fifth argument.

"The bottom line is it has been an extremely exciting and busy term for us," Garre, head of Latham's Supreme Court and appellate practice, said. "It illustrates a lot of things we've been working on here—establishing a deep bench of young and upcoming rising stars who aren't brought in cold to Latham, but who are homegrown. Melissa and Roman are examples."