Reminiscences of the Solicitor General's Office |
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| Authors: | Robert L Stern |
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| Institution: | 1. Counsel at Mayer, Brown & Platt and a coauthor with Eugene Gressman of Supreme Court Practice. He spent thirteen years with the Office ofthe Solicitor General;2. in 1952he became Acting Solicitor General for fifteen months. |
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| Abstract: | A few years ago Danielle Stern suggested to her grandfather that as the oldest member of the family, he ought to put down his memories of both the family and of his law practice. Stern did, and in it he describes various members of the family, and how he came to go to Harvard Law School, graduating in 1932 during the Great Depression. Although he had been an editor of the Harvard Law Review and graduated magna cum laude, the major New York firms passed him by because he was a Jew. He did manage to get a job with a small law firm at $25 a week, and about a year later went to Washington to join the New Deal. We are pleased to present that part of Mr. Stern s memoirs that deals with his years in the Justice Department and then in the Solicitor General s office. |
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