Paul Clement

Paul Drew Clement (* June 24, 1966 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin) is an American lawyer, professor and former United States Solicitor General.

Biography

The son of an accountant studied after visiting the Cedarburg High School in 1984, first at Georgetown University and in 1988 earned a Bachelor of Arts (BA). Subsequently, he studied economics and graduated in 1989 with a Master of Arts ( MA Economics) from. Subsequent thereto postgraduate studies in law at the Law School of Harvard University, he finished in 1992 with the degree of Juris Doctor ( JD). During his studies, he was the editor for the item to the Supreme Court of the United States in the Harvard Law Review. After qualifying as a lawyer in the state of Wisconsin, he was Secretary ( Clerk ) by Laurence H. Silberman initially on United States Court of Appeals, and in 2003/2004 in Antonin Scalia, an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court.

After working as a lawyer at the law firm Kirkland & Ellis, he became a partner in the law firm King & Spalding in Atlanta. In 1998 he was appointed professor of law at Georgetown University, where he worked until 2004. In parallel, he worked as General Counsel for the Legal Affairs Committee of the U.S. Senate, and since 2001 for the Ministry of Justice of the United States. In June 2005, Clement was appointed by U.S. President George W. Bush to the Solicitor General and held that post until June 2008. In this role, he entered 49 times for the United States before the Supreme Court. Following the resignation of Alberto R. Gonzales, he was also acting Minister of Justice ( Attorney General ) for a day of 17 to 18 September 2007.

Then he was again working as a partner of the law firm King & Spalding. He left the office because of a controversy over his representation of the Defense of Marriage Act and joined a small, highly specialized firm with Viet Dinh to a fellow student who had worked as a legal adviser for the White House under George W. Bush. He is primarily responsible for cases before the Supreme Court and has become the in-house counsel of the Republican Party in politicized cases. Alone in the judicial year 2011/12 he represents seven high-profile cases, including the Defense of Marriage Act, constituency organizations in Texas and the health insurance reform.

However, it is appreciated by lawyers from all political persuasions that he prepared the controversial cases exclusively as legal issues and so the political controversies obscures the background.

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