Law Firm Associate Takes SCOTUS Podium for Immigrant Family

When Goodwin Procter LLP associate David Zimmer walks up to the U.S. Supreme Court podium April 23, he’ll be just one of two law firm associates arguing at the high court this term.

Even that number seems “higher than usual” to Supreme Court veteran John Elwood, of Vinson & Elkins, Washington. “I’d expect 0 or 1 in an average year,” he told Bloomberg Law.

Law firm partners and solo practitioners make more Supreme Court arguments than any other group. This term, they are scheduled to argue approximately 40 percent of cases at the high court.

Zimmer acknowledged that it ...