Familiar faces revolve through Supreme Court
Fair Courts E-lert
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Author: Joan Biskupic
Source: USA Today
Date: 12/15/2008
Article reports that a 2008 analysis by Richard Lazarus, a Georgetown University law professor, found that "repeat performers" who regularly argue before the U.S. Supreme Court "are part of an emerging elite private-sector group of lawyers who dominate advocacy at the court." Article reports that "[m]any lawyers with thriving practices before the court have connections to the justices because of the way they came up in the profession." Lazarus' study found that the development of an experienced group of advocates "creates an advantage for businesses" and "probably contributes to how well big companies have fared at the court in recent years."