Scott Harris’ next job is out of sight – literally and figuratively. On June 10, Harris, an assistant U.S. attorney in Washington, D.C., takes over as counsel to the U.S. Supreme Court – one of the least visible but arguably most interesting and varied in-house counsel jobs in the District. The position is part general counsel, part law clerk and part motions attorney for the nation’s highest court, bringing its occupant into at least occasional contact with the justices themselves.
The counsel offers advice to the justices, when requested, about judicial ethics dilemmas. He or she also works with U.S. attorneys when demonstrators are arrested on the steps of the Supreme Court, defends the justices when they are named in what are viewed as crackpot suits and plays an occasional role in the handling of death-row appeals.
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