Firms Seek to Share The Wealth of Supreme Court Oral Arguments

Some Big Law firms made room for more junior partners at the Supreme Court lectern this term as part of a bid to diversify who gets to argue before the justices.

Mel Bostwick, for example, will be the third attorney from Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP to argue when she makes her high court debut on Tuesday in George v. McDonough, a veterans’ benefits case. WilmerHale has sent five different attorneys to argue cases this term while Latham & Watkins has had four, and Williams & Connolly three.

That’s a shift in the “superstar” model that’s come to dominate ...