The National Law Journal discusses Professor Jeffrey Fisher’s possible role in upcoming landmark Supreme Court cases surrounding same-sex marriage. 

History-making arguments before the U.S. Supreme Court on same-sex marriage are still more than three months away, but the strategizing among lawyers has already begun.

Discussions are still at the early stages, and lawyers involved in the cases say no decisions have yet been made about who will have the coveted task of arguing the landmark cases before the high court.

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Stanford Law School professor Jeffrey Fisher, with 26 high court arguments under his belt, is part of the legal team in the Kentucky case and may also be in the running. Theodore Olson of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher is also a contender, Goldstein said. Olson, a former George W. Bush administration solicitor general, has become a leading advocate for same-sex marriage. “He can tell the conservatives why they should side with the plaintiff same-sex couples,” Goldstein said.