Barrett Worked As An Associate At Miller, Cassidy, Larroca & Lewin (Later Merged With Baker And Botts, LLP) From 1999 – 2001. [Amy Coney Barrett CV via Notre Dame Law School, Accessed 9/24/20]
Amy Coney Barrett Worked At Miller, Cassidy, Larroca & Lewin From When The Firm Merged With Texas Firm Baker Botts. According to Law.com, “The candidates’ law firm backgrounds range widely, including Amy Coney Barrett, the front-runner, having a few years of associate experience at Baker Botts and a boutique. Barrett, 48, now on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit, worked for the boutique Miller, Cassidy, Larroca & Lewin in Washington, D.C., from 1999 through 2000, when the firm merged with Texas firm Baker Botts. She left Baker Botts in 2001. Scott Nelson, an attorney at Public Citizen Litigation Group in Washington, D.C., who was a hiring partner at Miller Cassidy when Barrett joined the firm, said her pedigree made her a highly sought-after associate. ‘She was the kind of person that I think most law firms would be delighted to hire as a first-year associate at that time,’ he said in an interview.” [Law.com, 9/22/20]
Barrett Provided Research And Briefing Work For Baker Botts’ Representation Of Bush In Bush V. Gore On Location In Florida. According to Law.com, “While in private practice, she has said, she worked on mostly civil matters, writing briefs and memoranda and conducting depositions and research. She told members of the U.S. Senate that she no longer had records of many of the cases she worked on but that she provided research and briefing work for Baker Botts’ representation of George W. Bush in Bush v. Gore after the 2000 presidential election. Barrett, as an associate, was on location in Florida for a week, working with Stuart Levey, a former Baker Botts partner who became chief legal officer at HSBC.” [Law.com, 9/22/20]
James Baker, Partner At Baker Botts LLP, Served As Head Of The Republican Recount Team. According to the Chicago Sun-Times, “The head of the Republican recount team, Baker has served in government positions under three presidents, including as secretary of state under Bush's father, President George Bush. A lifelong Texan, he has been friends with the elder Bush since they began playing tennis at Houston's Bayou Club four decades ago. Baker is best known as a statesman, visiting more than 90 countries during his post-Cold War tenure with the State Department. He now serves as a partner in the law firm of Baker Botts LLP and is senior counselor for the Carlyle Group, a merchant banking firm in Washington, D.C.” [Chicago Sun-Times, 11/26/00]
Bush V. Gore Resulted In The Florida Recount Efforts Ending And Bush Winning The 2000 Presidential Election Despite Losing The Popular Vote. According to History.com, “The decision resulted in one of the most controversial Supreme Court decisions in American history. With the Florida win, Bush led Gore in electoral votes nationally 271-266, and, out of legal options, Gore conceded. ‘The court divided along ideological lines with the conservatives backing Bush, the more conservative candidate, and the liberals backing Gore, the more liberal candidate,’ Hasen says. ‘The case presented difficult questions about court intervention in a process that both sides thought was infected with politics from the opposing side.’ With the decision, Bush became the first president since Benjamin Harrison, in 1888, to lose the popular vote, but win the general election. Not surprising, Democrats were unhappy with the results, Busch notes, while Republicans were happy and relieved.” [History.com, Accessed 9/24/20]