Upon Further Review
On an e-mail discussion list for professors of constitutional law that I subscribe to, someone recently raised the topic of who would qualify as the greatest U.S. Supreme Court advocates of all time. That discussion soon gave rise to an important subsidiary question: What constitutes greatness in appellate advocacy? In response to that question, someone on the discussion list responded facetiously that the advocate who achieved the greatest number of victories not justified by governing law and the facts of the case should be regarded as the greatest appellate advocate.
