Please join HLSA-DC and HLSA-NY for a timely and engaging panel:

The Supreme Court at a Crossroads

With four new members in five years and a number of significant cases on the docket or on the horizon, the Supreme Court is going through a period of potentially major transition. 

A group of frequent Supreme Court practitioners--Paul Clement (HLS ’92), William Jay (HLS’01), Deanne Maynard (HLS ’92), and Jeff Wall--will discuss recent developments at the Court and what it is like to practice regularly there.  Kannon Shanmugam (HLS ’98) will moderate.  A reception will follow the panel in Washington, DC.

Thursday May 12, 2022

Virtual Panel: 5:00 – 6:00 PM
via Zoom

Reception in Washington, DC: 6:00 – 7:30 PM
Reception Tickets: $25.00
Sullivan & Cromwell Rooftop
1700 New York Avenue, NW
Washington, DC 20006

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More about our panel:

Paul Clement is a partner at Kirkland & Ellis and served as the 43rd Solicitor General of the United States.  He has argued over 100 cases before the U.S. Supreme Court.  Paul clerked on the D.C. Circuit for Judge Laurence H. Silberman and for Justice Antonin Scalia of the U.S. Supreme Court.  He is a graduate of Georgetown, Cambridge and the Harvard Law School.  He has taught at the Georgetown University Law Center since 1998 and serves as a Senior Fellow of the Law Center’s Supreme Court Institute.

William Jay leads the Supreme Court and appellate practice at Goodwin Procter LLP and chairs the firm’s Washington, D.C. office.  He has focused on appellate litigation for more than 20 years; he has argued 17 cases in the Supreme Court and more than 60 appeals in federal and state appellate courts, with particular experience in patent litigation, class actions, and pharmaceutical matters.  Before joining Goodwin, Willy served in all three branches of government: as an Assistant to the Solicitor General from 2007 to 2012; as Special Counsel to the Senate Judiciary Committee during its consideration of Chief Justice Roberts’s nomination; and as a law clerk for Justice Antonin Scalia and for Judge Diarmuid O’Scannlain of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit.  Willy graduated from Harvard Law School in 2001, where he was Executive Editor of the Harvard Law Review, and from Harvard College. 

Deanne Maynard co-chairs Morrison & Foerster’s Appellate and Supreme Court practice. Ranked in Band 1 by Chambers for nationwide appeals, Deanne has argued 14 times in the U.S. Supreme Court. Her wins in that Court involve a wide range of issues and industries, including life sciences (Sandoz v. Amgen), intellectual property (MedImmune v. Genentech), antitrust (Pacific Bell v. linkLine), financial services (Ransom v. FIA Card Services), and bankruptcy (RadLAX v. Amalgamated Bank). Deanne also argues complex, high stakes cases in courts of appeals, having argued dozens of appeals nationwide. Before joining MoFo, Deanne served as an Assistant to the Solicitor General at the U.S. Department of Justice. After law school, Deanne clerked two Terms on the United States Supreme Court, one for Justice Stephen Breyer and another for Justice Lewis Powell (Ret.) and Justice John Paul Stevens. Deanne graduated magna cum laude from Harvard Law School, where she was an editor of the Harvard Law Review.

Kannon Shanmugam is a partner at the law firm of Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison.  He is chair of the firm’s Supreme Court and appellate litigation practice and managing partner of the Washington office.  Kannon is widely recognized as one of the nation’s top appellate litigators.  He has argued 34 cases before the Supreme Court including four cases in 2021.  In all, he has argued over 100 appeals in courts across the country including arguments in all thirteen federal courts of appeals in in numerous state courts.  Prior to private practice, Kannon served as an Assistant to the Solicitor General at the U.S. Department of Justice.  He also served as a law clerk to Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia and to Judge J. Michael Luttig of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit. 

Jeff Wall is the head of Sullivan & Cromwell’s Supreme Court and Appellate Practice.  He is the former Acting Solicitor General and Principal Deputy Solicitor General of the United States. He has argued 30 cases in the Supreme Court in a number of areas, including securities, class actions, arbitration, intellectual property, taxation, labor and employment, bankruptcy, preemption, the False Claims Act, the First Amendment, and criminal law and procedure.  He also has briefed and argued numerous cases before federal and state courts of appeals and administrative agencies.  In addition to his appellate experience, Jeff has represented clients in a range of complex civil and criminal matters at the trial level, including as lead counsel in a successful federal criminal trial. He often counsels clients on strategic legal issues arising from litigation, legislation, or governmental oversight or investigation.  Jeff is a former law clerk to Justice Clarence Thomas and Judge J. Harvie Wilkinson III.  He received a J.D. from the University of Chicago Law School and a B.A. from Georgetown University.

This event is made possible by our friends at:

Sullivan & Cromwell

Kirkland & Ellis

Goodwin Procter

Morrison & Foerster

Paul Weiss