John Elwood is a partner in the Washington office of Arnold & Porter, where he heads the firm's Appellate and Supreme Court practice. He has appeared before most of the federal courts of appeals and argued ten cases before the Supreme Court of the United States.
John served as a law clerk to Justice Anthony Kennedy on the Supreme Court of the United States. He served in the U.S. Department of Justice as an Assistant to the Solicitor General and as the senior Deputy in the Office of Legal Counsel.
John taught the University of Virginia School of Law's Supreme Court Litigation Clinic for nearly a decade. He writes the "Relist Watch" feature on SCOTUSblog.
