Aug 14, 2009
Justice Stevens Makes Former Clerk an Offer She Can’t Refuse
It was no surprise that Amanda Cohen Leiter missed the first few phone calls from her former boss, Justice John Paul Stevens, this summer. Leiter, a 2003-2004 Stevens clerk and now a professor at Catholic University’s Columbus School of Law, is on maternity leave with her baby daughter. But Stevens and Leiter finally connected, and he made her a surprising offer: a chance to make her first oral argument before the Supreme Court.