‘09 Law Grad Earns Prestigious Fellowship
Matt Nicholson, a May graduate of the U.Va. Law School, has been named a Bristow Fellow.
That means a lot to a few people. For the rest of us, I’ll explain a little bit. The U.S. Solicitor General is essentially the government’s lawyer, arguing cases before the U.S. Supreme Court. Each year, the Solicitor General’s office names just four Bristow Fellows, whose responsibilities are “drafting briefs in opposition to petitions filed against the government in the U.S. Supreme Court and monitoring cases in lower courts for appeal.”
Nicholson — who also holds an undergrad degree in political science from U.Va. — appears to be a man to watch; he was the articles editor for the Virginia Law Review, and is currently clerking for Judge J. Harvie Wilkinson III on the Fourth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.
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