Law360 Names Arnold & Porter’s Allon Kedem as One of 12 Lawyers Who Are the Future of the U.S. Supreme Court Bar

Appellate & Supreme Court partner Allon Kedem was recently featured in Law360 among a dozen lawyers who are seen as “the vanguard of the U.S. Supreme Court bar’s next generation, poised to follow in the footsteps of the bar’s current icons.”

Kedem has argued 13 times in the Supreme Court, most recently achieving a unanimous victory in Lindke v. Freed. The publication noted that Kedem’s clerkships — for Justice Anthony Kennedy during the Supreme Court’s 2009 Term, Justice Elena Kagan the following year, Judge Mark R. Kravitz of the U.S. District Court for Connecticut, and Judge Pierre N. Leval of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit — displayed “uncommon heterogeneity.” Earlier in his career, Kedem served in the Office of Legal Counsel at the U.S. Department of Justice during the Bush and Obama administrations and in the Solicitor General’s Office during the Obama and Trump administrations.

Kedem believes his past experiences have had lasting benefits for Supreme Court advocacy, as it requires viewing matters from the perspective of all nine justices. “What you understand is that there’s not just one way to look at a legal problem,” he said. “And one of the most important skills — really, the key skill for an appellate advocate — is to translate your legal position into language that speaks to an audience who may or may not share your own ideological priors.”

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