A Milbank partner who's been nominated for a seat on the federal bench reported $3.3 million in partnership income from the law firm in 2018, according to financial disclosure forms filed with the U.S. Senate.

The disclosure filed by Mark Scarsi, the managing partner of the law firm's Los Angeles office, offers a rare peek into partnership income at Milbank given the dearth of its lawyers who have jumped to the Trump administration. At least one other Milbank nominee has filed a financial disclosure under the Trump administration. 

That lawyer, Austin Bramwell, reported earning just under $2 million from his partnership share between 2016 and June 2017. Bramwell went on to be a senior adviser in the Office of Tax Policy at the Treasury Department before returning to Milbank in early 2018 as a partner in the trust and estates group.

Mark Scarsi appearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee on Nov. 13, 2019. (Photo: Courtesy Photo)

Scarsi's 2018 income as an equity partner was down slightly from the $3.5 million he received in 2017, according to his disclosure, which is a standard filing for all federal judicial nominees.

The American Lawyer reported that profits per equity partner at Milbank were $3.8 million in 2018 and $3.5 million in 2017.

Scarsi, who had stints at O'Melveny & Myers and Christie Parker & Hale prior to joining Milbank in 2007, has gotten sign off from both of his Democratic home state senators. Scarsi appeared before the Senate Judiciary Committee for his confirmation hearing Wednesday.

Here are three other things to know about Scarsi:

>> How he got the nomination

Scarsi sent his resume to the White House Counsel's office in April 2017 indicating that he'd be interested in being considered for a district court judgeship. He met with Sen. Orrin Hatch, R-Utah, in June 2017 and had interviews with the White House Counsel's Office and DOJ's Office of Legal Policy in August 2017. He submitted an application to Sen. Dianne Feinstein's selection committee shortly thereafter and to Sen. Kamala Harris' committee that March 2018 after it re-formed. After formal DOJ vetting began in summer 2018, Scarsi was nominated to the bench in October 2018. He was interviewed by Harris' committee afterward, on Dec. 18, 2018.  

>> His work at Milbank

Among Scarsi's notable clients is Cambridge Analytica, whom he represented in the consumer privacy class actions filed on behalf of Facebook users in the wake of the political firm's harvesting of data from the social media network. Scarsi has also represented both Apple and Google in patent litigation. His disclosures highlight a pair of patent jury trial wins for Apple in back-to-back months in 2013, one in the Central District of California and another in the Eastern District of Texas. In the Google case included in the disclosures, Scarsi's team won a ruling from a judge in the District of Delaware that the asserted patent was invalid. 

On the pro bono front, Scarsi dedicated about 80 hours representing an "elderly individual" in Landlord/Tenant Court who had fallen victim to "a reverse mortgage sham transaction." He also spent about 40 hours representing a transgender individual seeking asylum based on her inability to return to her country of origin, among other matters.

>>His affiliations 

Among other professional associations, Scarsi joined the Federalist Society in 2017. That same year the attorney also joined the Republican National Lawyers Association.