From clerk to counsel, x2
May 19, 2008
Before launching into the substance of Alan Fabian’s rearraignment and guilty plea Friday morning, U.S. District Judge Richard D. Bennett took a minute to acknowledge those standing at the lawyers’ tables, including two of his former law clerks.
“This is a rather unique situation for me,” Bennett said, announcing Assistant U.S. Attorney Tonya K. Kowitz and Assistant Federal Public Defender Sean P. Vitrano both shared his chambers before moving to opposite sides of the federal criminal justice system.
Bennett, who ascended to the bench five years ago, seemed tickled by the circumstance, mentioning it again later in the proceedings.
Have you ever appeared before the judge for whom you clerked? Or argued a case against your old boss?
BRENDAN KEARNEY, Legal Affairs Writer
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