First Timers Flood Supreme Court Arguments in December

Eleven attorneys, including Hogan Lovells associate Mitchell Reich, will take the U.S. Supreme Court lectern for the first time during December’s oral arguments.

Supreme Court veterans typically dominate, and they will out number first timers 16 to 11 in the sitting that stretches over two weeks.

But some new faces will be joining the elite field of attorneys who have argued before the justices, including Kirkland & Ellis partner K. Winn Allen, who was appointed by the court to argue his first case Dec. 10.

Only three women—compared to 29 men—will argue cases in December, marking the ...