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After graduating from HLS in 1986, Kagan clerked for former U.S. Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall and briefly worked as a practicing lawyer with Williams & Connelly, one of the toughtest litigation firms in Washington—and the firm that defended Clinton during his impeachment hearings—before accepting a teaching position at the University of Chicago’s Law School...
After graduating from HLS in 1986, Kagan clerked for former U.S. Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall and briefly worked as a practicing lawyer before accepting a teaching position at the University of Chicago...
Feller will also be remembered for the assistance he provided Thurgood Marshall in preparations for the historic Brown v. Board of Education case in the 1950’s, friends...
...also served a judicial clerkship with the late Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall, and was appointed to a tenured position at the Harvard Law School by his mid-30s. Around Harkness Commons, he’s known for his contrarian teaching style, as he cherishes the devil’s advocate and argues with obvious glee...
Ogunlesi, whose father was the first Nigerian-born medical professor tenured in his home country, studied philosophy, politics and economics at Oxford and then earned law and business degrees from Harvard. He clerked for Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall--who, unable to pronounce his name, dubbed him "Obeedoogee." (Most friends and colleagues today call him Bayo.) Ogunlesi joined the top-shelf New York City law firm Cravath, Swain & Moore, where he jumped at the chance to advise First Boston on a Nigerian gas project. Success in that effort landed him a better job at First Boston (which was acquired...