{"id":160776,"date":"2026-08-17T15:26:54","date_gmt":"2026-08-17T23:26:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2026\/08\/17\/the-justices-name-came-off-the-door-but-the-biglaw-firm-is-still-a-powerhouse\/"},"modified":"2026-08-17T15:26:54","modified_gmt":"2026-08-17T23:26:54","slug":"the-justices-name-came-off-the-door-but-the-biglaw-firm-is-still-a-powerhouse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2026\/08\/17\/the-justices-name-came-off-the-door-but-the-biglaw-firm-is-still-a-powerhouse\/","title":{"rendered":"The Justice\u2019s Name Came Off The Door, But The Biglaw Firm Is Still A Powerhouse."},"content":{"rendered":"

Ed. Note:<\/span> Welcome to our daily feature Trivia Question of the Day!<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

Before Abe Fortas became the only Supreme Court justice ever driven from the bench by scandal (and years after he argued the landmark right-to-counsel case Gideon v. Wainwright<\/em>), he co-founded which Washington law firm? Fortas was a name partner alongside a former head of the Justice Department\u2019s antitrust division and a former FCC chairman, and it remains a marquee Biglaw firm today (though Fortas\u2019s name came off the masthead when he left for the Court).<\/strong><\/p>\n

Hint: Today the firm goes by just the two surviving founders\u2019 surnames. Both were New Deal power brokers, and one of them had been a federal appeals judge before hanging out a shingle.<\/strong>
See the answer on the next page.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

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Ed. Note: Welcome to our daily feature Trivia Question of the Day!<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

Before Abe Fortas became the only Supreme Court justice ever driven from the bench by scandal (and years after he argued the landmark right-to-counsel case Gideon v. Wainwright<\/em>), he co-founded which Washington law firm? Fortas was a name partner alongside a former head of the Justice Department\u2019s antitrust division and a former FCC chairman, and it remains a marquee Biglaw firm today (though Fortas\u2019s name came off the masthead when he left for the Court).<\/strong><\/p>\n

Hint: Today the firm goes by just the two surviving founders\u2019 surnames. Both were New Deal power brokers, and one of them had been a federal appeals judge before hanging out a shingle.<\/strong>
See the answer on the next page.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

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