A great article today by Tony Mauro at Law.com may make you wish you were back in law school. Some quotes:
A brand-new player on the U.S. Supreme Court litigation scene filed its first certiorari petition Feb. 11 of this year, less than a month after it opened its doors. Six weeks later, the Supreme Court granted review in the case, while the new kid on the block was busy churning out briefs in a half-dozen other cases for Supreme Court review.Read the whole article; you won't be sorry. And here is the link to the Stanford Law School Supreme Court Litigation Clinic itself. Posted by Marcia Oddi at June 1, 2004 05:05 PMEven more remarkable is that not a single hour of the time involved got billed to clients.
The name of the new organization is the Stanford Law School Supreme Court Litigation Clinic, and it is the brainchild of Tommy Goldstein of D.C.'s Goldstein & Howe. Five years ago Goldstein kicked over the ossified applecart of Supreme Court practice by creating a one-man practice devoted exclusively to high court litigation. He aggressively trolled for clients by scrutinizing circuit court conflicts, and undercut the big firms on fees. Eleven oral arguments and dozens of briefs later, Goldstein, 33, has earned the grudging respect of his elders and is billing more than $1 million a year -- still undercutting his top competitors, though not by as much.