Brian Fletcher is an experienced appellate advocate who specializes in representing clients before the Supreme Court. He has argued 22 cases before the Court, briefed roughly 100 cases on the merits, litigated hundreds of cases at the certiorari stage, and handled dozens of requests for emergency relief. Brian’s practice has spanned all areas of the Court’s docket, including the federal antidiscrimination laws, voting rights, the First Amendment, antitrust law, immigration law, administrative law, and criminal law and procedure.

Brian returned to Stanford and the Supreme Court Litigation Clinic after serving as the Principal Deputy Solicitor General of the United States from 2021-2025. In that capacity, he briefed or argued many of the federal government’s most significant cases in the Supreme Court and supervised the government’s appellate litigation on a variety of issues.

Before his most recent government service, Brian was an instructor in the Supreme Court Litigation Clinic from 2019-2021, first as a visiting professor and later as an Associate Professor of Law and Co-Director of the Clinic. Brian’s work in the Clinic also draws on his experience in a variety of other roles in government, including five years as an Assistant to the Solicitor General and service as Associate Counsel to the President, Counsel to the Attorney General, and Special Counsel to the Federal Trade Commission. He also spent several years practicing Supreme Court and appellate litigation at Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale & Dorr in Washington, D.C.

Brian began his legal career by clerking for Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Judge Merrick B. Garland. He graduated summa cum laude from Harvard Law School, where he served as the President of the Harvard Law Review, was awarded the Fay Diploma, and was a two-time recipient of the Sears Prize. He graduated magna cum laude from Yale College.