Stanford Law, Supreme Court Vet Jeffrey L. Fisher Joins O’Melveny

Jeffrey L. Fisher, a top Supreme Court litigator and Stanford Law professor, has joined O’Melveny & Myers as special counsel, the firm announced April 23.

But Fisher joked to Bloomberg law that he won’t be leading any investigations of the firm.

In fact, Fisher doesn’t anticipate changing the work he’s doing, which is “interesting and important Supreme Court work,” he said.

Fisher has argued 35 cases at the high court but his favorite memory is from his first argument in 2004 in Crawford v. Washington. When now-retired Justice John Paul Stevens, “my old boss,” came from behind the curtain ...