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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.



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