Preview
of United States Supreme Court Cases (Association
of American Law Schools and the Joint Committee
on Continuing Legal Education of the American
Law Institute and the American Bar Association
1973 present)(publication is irregular;
currently issued eight times per year).
Lexis
and Westlaw.
If
one is looking for the name of an attorney arguing
an upcoming Supreme Court case, one may want
to check the Preview of United States Supreme
Court Cases ("Preview"),
which lists the names of the attorneys on each
side,
as well as their telephone numbers. [91] The
Preview also contains the names and telephone
numbers of the parties submitting amicus briefs.
In
order to find the name of an attorney who has
previously argued a case before the Supreme
Court, the best resources to consult would be
the Lexis or Westlaw databases. Attorneys who
argue before the Supreme Court are on record
in both of these services. In Lexis, the segment
name is "counsel" and in Westlaw,
the field restrictor is "at" for attorney.
The
search for "counsel (Ruth w/2 Ginsburg)"
in the Lexis GENFED library, USLED file, yielded
twenty-three matches. The same search in the
"U.S. Supreme Court Lawyers Edition
Cases" source on the Internet version of
Lexis leads to the same number of cases: twenty-three.
[92] These results included amicus briefs that
Ginsburg had filed with the Supreme Court on
behalf of the American Civil Liberties Union.
Using
Westlaw, on the other hand, leads to a different
result. A search for "at (Ruth /2 Ginsburg)"
in the "SCT" database yielded six
matches, only the cases which Ginsburg actually
litigated. The search process remains exactly
the same on the Internet version of Westlaw
and yields the same results. [93] Thus, both
services allow you to search for attorneys who
argued before the Supreme Court, although they
do so in slightly different fashions.