Good luck Victoria! We hope you win, but if not, we will be here for you.

First-time SCOTUS advocate Edmund LaCour argued for Alabama in Culley v. Marshall yesterday. If it goes as the reports suggest, we will be here for you Edmund.

Correction! LaCour was an OT2022 inductee to Lincoln-Marshall Society, having argued and lost Allen v. Milligan. His membership terminated when he appeared yesterday to argue a second case. So sorry Edmund, we will not in fact be here for you. Best of luck tho.

Go first timer!

Both of these cases will feature advocates arguing in the Court for the first time, both for the petitioner.

Poll: is it appropriate to tell a lawyer to break a leg before an oral argument?

Our first inductee of OT2023 is former Secretary of Labor Eugene Scalia, who argued for the unsuccessful respondent in Murray v. UBS Securities, LLC, decided Feb. 8, 2024. Welcome!

Our second OT2023 inductee is Howard Bashman of Howard Bashman! On Oct. 10, 2023, Howard argued for the respondent in Great Lakes Insurance v. Raiders Retreat Realty, which was decided against his client on Feb. 21, 2024. Congratulations and condolences!

We are honored to welcome new members Colorado Solicitor General Shannon Stevenson and Jason C. Murray, who argued for the doomed respondents in Trump v. Anderson. We appreciate you!

McIntosh was argued for the petitioner by Steven Y. Yurowitz, his first appearance at the lectern in the Supreme Court. We offer Steven our condolences on today's result and congratulations on becoming our newest member. Welcome to the 0-1 club!

When somebody loses their first oral argument in the Supreme Court of the United States

There are ten cases remaining to be decided which were an advocate's first oral argument in the Supreme Court, and could therefore qualify that person for membership in the Lincoln-Marshall Society. One of those cases had first timers on both sides!

Melanie Bostwick, admitted in OT2022 for her unsuccessful first argument in George v. McDonough, has been stricken from the rolls, having argued Bufkin v. McDonough yesterday (very capably, according to our sources).