Lisa S. Blatt, a lawyer with Williams & Connolly who has argued more Supreme Court cases than any other woman, echoed the point in a 2010 article in The Green Bag, a legal journal.
A year before, the figure was 13 percent. Over the past decade, Ms. Robinson found, the percentage of female lawyers presenting arguments at the court ranged from 12 to 22 percent.
The Wisconsin lawyer, Kenneth Chesebro, replied that the âodds of action before Jan. 6 will become more favorable if the justices start to fear that there will be âwildâ chaos on Jan. 6 unless they rule by then, either way.â
Women have made less headway on the other side of the bench. In the term that ended in June, just 18 percent of arguments were presented by women, according to data compiled by Kimberly Strawbridge Robinson of Bloomberg Law.
Paul Clement argued the most times with 30 total arguments. Neal Katyal was second with 21 arguments. Jeffrey Fisher had the third most with 18 arguments and Kannon Shanmugam had the fourth most with 15 arguments.
Paul Clement argued the most cases during this period, with Neal Katyal coming right behind Donald Verrilli. Along with the OSG attorneys, including veterans Edwin Kneedler and Michael Dreeben, three other elite Supreme Court attorneys make the list â Jeff Fisher, Seth Waxman and Tom Goldstein.
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To date, the court has agreed to hear 66 cases during its 2021-2022 term. Four cases were dismissed and one case was removed from the argument calendar. To date, the court has issued decisions in 35 cases.
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Mr. Goldsteinâs competitors sneered. âIf Iâm going to have heart bypass surgery, I wouldnât go to the surgeon who calls me up,â Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr., who argued 39 cases before the court before joining it in 2005, told The American Lawyer in 2000. âIâd look for the guy whoâs too busy for that.â.
As recently as 1987, Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist remarked that the days of a few great advocates appearing regularly before the Supreme Court were gone. âThere is no such Supreme Court bar at the present time,â he said.
A Supreme Court specialist, he says, is one who has argued five cases in the court or is affiliated with a practice whose current members have argued at least 10.
The first law school Supreme Court clinic, at Stanford, started in 2004. It has been joined by similar clinics at Harvard, Northwestern, Pennsylvania, Texas, Virginia and Yale.
But the old guard is often wary of, if not hostile toward, the new breed of skilled and ambitious advocates, fearing that they are more interested in the glory of a Supreme Court argument than in what is best for their clients and the development of the law.
In the end, after all the accolades for him and all the derision for his opponent, Solicitor General Donald Verrilli, it was Clement who lost the two biggest cases of the term: The Republican challenge to the Affordable Care Act and the state of Arizonaâs defense of its hard-charging immigration law.
Even perfect people have setbacks. Also, oral arguments do not matter as much as they appear to in the moment, and the same may be true of elite Supreme Court lawyers in general. Sure, if your case makes it to the Supreme Court, you donât want a schlub up there representing you.
Click graph to enlarge. Success in the Supreme Court is hard to define because it can be viewed in a variety of ways. Few attorneys have the opportunity to try cases there, and even fewer argue multiple cases. Part of success therefore is simply getting a case or cases to the court. Once the court agrees to hear a case, ...
Once the court agrees to hear a case, the caseâs history comes with it; that is to say, attorneys do not all start with an equal likelihood of winning because often one sideâs position is stronger than the otherâs at the outset.
Mr. Goldsteinâs competitors sneered. âIf Iâm going to have heart bypass surgery, I wouldnât go to the surgeon who calls me up,â Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr., who argued 39 cases before the court before joining it in 2005, told The American Lawyer in 2000. âIâd look for the guy whoâs too busy for that.â.
As recently as 1987, Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist remarked that the days of a few great advocates appearing regularly before the Supreme Court were gone. âThere is no such Supreme Court bar at the present time,â he said.
A Supreme Court specialist, he says, is one who has argued five cases in the court or is affiliated with a practice whose current members have argued at least 10.
The first law school Supreme Court clinic, at Stanford, started in 2004. It has been joined by similar clinics at Harvard, Northwestern, Pennsylvania, Texas, Virginia and Yale.
But the old guard is often wary of, if not hostile toward, the new breed of skilled and ambitious advocates, fearing that they are more interested in the glory of a Supreme Court argument than in what is best for their clients and the development of the law.