THOMAS GOLDSTEIN
Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld

There was a time when top U.S. Supreme Court advocates didn’t think much of what Thomas Goldstein did. Goldstein, 39, aspired to build his own practice around the high court, and he would use computer databases to methodically find issues on which circuit courts of appeals were split. When he found a case that appeared ripe for the justices, he would call the lawyers involved and offer to help.