Former acting U.S. Solicitor General Neal Katyal argued before the U.S. Supreme Court on Monday—the first of seven cases he is already scheduled to argue this term.

Some of the cases are consolidated, so the Hogan Lovells partner will have risen to argue five times by the end of this term. But the number will set Katyal on the path to surpass the late Thurgood Marshall as the racial-minority lawyer with the most arguments in court history.