The New Republic cover story features Lecturer Tom Goldstein, highlighting his unconventional approach to Supreme Court litigation and the changing fabric of Supreme Court advocacy:

At 35, Goldstein has already argued an astounding 16 cases in front of the justices–making him one of the youngest nongovernment lawyers ever to reach this mark. But the important thing to know about him isn’t the number of major cases he has handled. It’s the way he has handled them. What most distinguishes Goldstein from his colleagues in the ultra-patrician world of Supreme Court advocacy is that he didn’t learn his craft at an elite law school or at the side of a Supreme Court justice. He learned it from the generation of ambulance-chasers who had already crashed the rest of the legal world. It was only seven years ago, after all, that Goldstein, not far removed from his law school days at American University (A.U.), opened a practice from his laundry room and promptly began cold-calling prospective clients.

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