Matthew D. Roberts

Matthew D. Roberts is an American lawyer who is an Assistant to the Solicitor General of the United States.^[1][2][3]

Schooling

He graduated from Harvard College magna cum laude in 1984 and graduated first in his class from Harvard Law School in 1989.^[4]

Career

Between graduating from college in 1984 and beginning law school in 1986, Roberts was a legislative aide for then-Congressman Charles Schumer. After law school, from 1989–1990, Roberts clerked for then-Judge Ruth Bader Ginsburg on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit. From 1990-1991, he clerked for Justice John Paul Stevens on the U.S. Supreme Court. From 1991-1993 he served as Counsel to the Senate Banking Committee.^[5] He began to work for the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency in 1993 and in 1996 became Chief of Staff and Senior Deputy Comptroller of the Currency.^[6] In 1997 he joined the Office of the Solicitor General as an Assistant to the Solicitor General. He briefly left the Department of Justice to work at law firm O'Melveny & Myers but soon returned to his position as Assistant. As an Assistant, Roberts has argued an outstanding 30 cases before the Supreme Court.^[7][8][9] Between October 2000 and April 2010, Roberts is one of the ten lawyers who argued the greatest number of cases in the Supreme Court.^[10] Roberts currently resides in Washington, D.C. with his wife, lawyer Edith Lampson Roberts, and his two children, Molly and Jacob Roberts.^[11]

References

1. ^ http://www.justice.gov/osg/briefs/2010/3mer/2mer/2009-1498.mer.aa.pdf
2. ^ http://www.fairness.com/resources/relation?relation_id=83854
3. ^ http://www.scribd.com/doc/31568156/ElenaKagan-PublicQuestionnaire
4. ^ http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9D0CE5DD133CF931A1575AC0A967958260
5. ^ http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9D0CE5DD133CF931A1575AC0A967958260
6. ^ http://www.occ.gov/news-issuances/bulletins/1997/bulletin-1997-7.html
7. ^ http://www.oyez.org/advocates/r/m/matthew_d_roberts
8. ^ http://supreme.justia.com/us/531/326/case.html
9. ^ http://www.supremecourt.gov/oral_arguments/argument_transcripts/05-1448.pdf
10. ^ http://dailywrit.com/page/2/
11. ^ http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9D0CE5DD133CF931A1575AC0A967958260

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Name	Roberts, Matthew D.
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Short description	Assistant to the Solicitor General of the United States
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