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With his Supreme Court cases now closed, Fisher has been working with DWT on a federal appeals case pertaining to the Exxon Valdez oil spill in 1989 and on some other First Amendment work focusing on the journalistic privilege to keep sources confidential...
Born in Kansas City, Fisher graduated from Duke University in 1992 and then took two years off before attending the University of Michigan Law School, earning his law degree...
...wasn’t really sure what I wanted to do after college,” Fisher says. “I taught tennis for some time and then got a job as a paralegal in Washington, D.C. It was there that I became interested in the moral and philosophical issues in our culture that seemed, to me, to be played out in the law, and decided that a law career seemed like a good day-to-day life...
...Fisher said that the “law just clicked” with him while in law school, which landed him clerkships with Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals Judge Stephen Reinhart and U.S. Supreme Court Justice Stevens in the two years after he graduated...
...Fisher says his work with Justice Stevens gave him confidence to argue a case in the U.S. Supreme Court...