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How Kannon Shanmugam and His Paul Weiss Team Have Scored More Than 10% of SCOTUS Cert Grants This Year

The chair of the Wall Street firm’s Supreme Court and appellate practice group has secured a remarkable five cert grants from the court this year when the court has so far taken up fewer than 50 cases.

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Paul Weiss partner Kannon Shanmugam handles telephonic arguments before the U.S. Supreme Court in Borden v. United States on November 23, 2020 from his office in Washington, D.C. (Photo: Jennifer Peters) Paul Weiss partner Kannon Shanmugam handles telephonic arguments before the U.S. Supreme Court in Borden v. United States on November 23, 2020 from his office in Washington, D.C. (Photo: Jennifer Peters)

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Last Friday while the rest of us were parsing the Supreme Court’s two-paragraph diss of Texas v. Pennsylvania, Kannon Shanmugam’s phone started blowing up.

No, the text messages flooding the phone weren’t about the election case. Shanmugam’s friends and colleagues were pinging him about the two lines at the bottom of Friday night’s orders from the High Court: A grant of a writ of certiorari for Shanmugam’s client Goldman Sachs Group Inc. in a closely-watched securities case.

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