Arnold & Porter Associate Takes Lead as High Court Grants Case

Arnold & Porter convinced the Supreme Court to review an appeal with a firm associate leading the litigation instead of a partner.

That senior associate, Andrew Tutt, and the partner on the petition, Elisabeth Theodore, spoke to Bloomberg Law after the grant Dec. 15 about their years-long legal journey on behalf of a military veteran.

It’s “very rare” for an associate to be counsel of record on a granted petition, said legal-data expert and founder of The Juris Lab, Adam Feldman.

Tutt, who graduated from Yale Law School in 2013, discovered Le Roy Torres’ case a few ...