3L to Argue Before First Circuit
I just got an e-mail from Professor Martha Minow telling me that one of her students, 3L Lena Konanova, would be arguing a case before the First Circuit as part of her work at the WilmerHale Legal Services Center Employment Civil Rights clinic.
I followed up with Lena to ask how this came about:
“The opportunity came up as a purely fortuitous coincidence of circumstances—it wasn’t something that I had sought out or worked towards accomplishing or ever even envisioned. I have been working at the WilmerHale Legal Services Center, in the Employment Civil Rights Project. My clinical instructor had the appellate argument in this case coming up in May and he asked me a few weeks ago whether I would be interested in arguing the case. A few of us had worked on the briefing, but I think he picked me because of my moot court experience—I was on the winning team in the Ames competition. I also took Tom Goldstein’s and Professor Larry Tribe’s Supreme Court Litigation workshop this winter and helped prepare Tom for his Supreme Court argument—I think that fact helped the First Circuit and the client agree to this unusual situation.
“In any case, I am quite excited about it and just trying to focus on preparing for the big day.”
Wlodzimierz J. Dzwonczyk
August 3, 2008 @ 5:48 pm
What case is that, what docket number, if you can share it with me. I am myself interested very much in employment law, so I would be grateful for the info. Sincerely,
Woody (Wlodzimierz)