Paul Clement (lawyer)

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Paul Clement (2006)

Paul Drew Clement (born June 24, 1966 in Milwaukee , Wisconsin ) is an American lawyer , professor and former United States Solicitor General .

biography

The son of an accountant studied after attending Cedarburg High School in 1984 first at Georgetown University , where he obtained a Bachelor of Arts (BA) in 1988 . He then studied economics and graduated in 1989 with a Master of Arts (MA Economics). He completed a subsequent postgraduate study of law at the Law School of Harvard University in 1992 with the academic degree Juris Doctor (JD). During his student days he was editorfor the articles on the United States Supreme Court in the Harvard Law Review . After qualifying as a lawyer in the state of Wisconsin, he was secretary ( Clerk ) first by Laurence H. Silberman at the United States Court of Appeals and 2003/2004 Antonin Scalia , a Deputy Judge of the Supreme Court.

After working as an attorney with Kirkland & Ellis law firm , he became a partner at King & Spalding law firm in Atlanta . In 1998 he was appointed professor of law at Georgetown University, where he worked until 2004. At the same time, he worked as in-house counsel for the US Senate Legal Committee and, since 2001, for the United States Department of Justice . In June 2005, Clement was appointed Solicitor General by US President George W. Bush and held this office until June 2008. In that capacity, he appeared 49 times for the United States in the Supreme Court. After the resignation of Alberto R. Gonzales , he was also Acting Minister of Justice ( Attorney General ) for one day from September 17 to 18, 2007 .

He then returned to work as a partner in the law firm King & Spalding. He left the firm because of a controversy over his representation of the Defense of Marriage Act and joined a small, highly specialized law firm with Viet Dinh , a fellow student who had worked as a legal advisor to the White House under George W. Bush. There he is primarily responsible for cases before the Supreme Court and has developed into the Republican Party's house attorney in politicized cases. In the 2011/12 judicial year alone, he represented seven high-profile cases, including the Defense of Marriage Act, constituencies in Texas and health insurance reform .

However, he is valued by lawyers from all political backgrounds for the fact that he processes the controversial cases exclusively as legal questions and thus lets the political controversies take a back seat.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b c d e Jason Zengerle: The Paul Clement Court , New York Magazine, March 19, 2012