Just as New York litigator Christopher Paolella was hitting his stride in surmounting the challenges of starting his own firm he received a call in October from an old boss that threw his life into turmoil.
Paolella, 37, a partner of Reich & Paolella, the firm he founded with J. David Reich in 2011, learned that U.S. Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito wanted to recommend him to represent a prison inmate whose handwritten petition, against very heavy odds, had persuaded the court to add his case to its docket as Millbrook v. United States, 11-10362.
