Paul Clement

Quick Facts

Full Name	Paul Clement
Occupation	Lawyer
Date Of Birth	Jun 24, 1966(1966-06-24)
Age	58
Birthplace	Cedarburg
Country	United States
Birth City	Wisconsin
Horoscope	Gemini

Paul Clement Biography

Paul Clement is one of the most popular and richest Lawyer who was born on June 24, 1966 in Cedarburg, Wisconsin, United States. Paul Drew Clement (born June 24 26th, 1965) was an American lawyer. He was a ex- United States Solicitor General and an active partner at Kirkland & Ellis, a law firm. Kirkland & Ellis after its acquisition of his former business Bancroft PLLC. Additionally, he is a distinguished lecturer in law in Georgetown University and an adjunct professor at the New York University School of Law. He was named to the presidency by President George W. Bush on March 14, 2005 for the position of Solicitor General. He was and confirmed by United States Senate on June 8, 2005. He was sworn in as Solicitor General the 13th of June. Clement succeeded Theodore Olson.

On August 27 2007 President Bush declared Clement as the new attorney general in the United States, to take his post following his resignation from Alberto Gonzales, effective September 17th the 17th of September, 2007. According to officials from the administration, Clement took that office at 12:01 am on 17 September 2007 and resigned within 24 hours. On September 17 the 17th of September, President Bush announced that the Assistant Attorney General of the Civil Division, Peter Keisler was to be appointed the acting Attorney General subject to an appointment to a permanent position by a president-elect.

Clement gave notice of his resignation on May 14, 2008, effective June 2, 2008, and returned to Georgetown University Law Center as a senior fellow. He had been mentioned as a possible Supreme Court candidate in a John McCain presidency, and was a coveted potential hire among D.C. legal firms, who reportedly vied to build a firm around his expertise in appellate matters. Evan Tager of Mayer Brown said: “Paul Clement is the Holy Grail of law firm recruiting… The buzz in the legal world about Clement is like the buzz in basketball when LeBron James was coming out of high school and turning pro. It will be interesting to see where the market will go.”

Clement resigned on May 14, 2008, effective June 2, 2008, and joined the Georgetown University Law Center as a visiting professor and senior fellow at the Supreme Court Institute.

Clement was appointed to his position in the United States Department of Justice in February 2001. Prior to being confirmed as the Solicitor General, Clement served as the principal deputy Solicitor General. He was appointed interim Solicitor General the 11th of July 2004 after Theodore Olson resigned. He has argued more than 100 trials before the United States Supreme Court, including McConnell v. FEC, Tennessee v. Lane, Rumsfeld v. Padilla, United States v. Booker, Hamdi v. Rumsfeld, Rumsfeld v. FAIR, Hamdan v. Rumsfeld, Gonzales v. Raich, Gonzales v. Oregon, Gonzales v. Carhart, Hein v. Freedom From Religion Foundation as well as Sekhar in v. United States. He has also argued several of the most important cases before the lower courts that questioned the Bush administration’s implementation of the war on terror. In November 2011, he was the only lawyer to argue numerous cases at the Supreme Court since 2000 than any other lawyer.

Paul Clement Net Worth

Paul Clement is one of the richest Lawyer from United States. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Paul Clement 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Clement was the son of Jean Clement and Jerry Clement, and he was the son of two brothers and one sister. Clement is from Cedarburg, Wisconsin. In 1984 Clement was a graduate of Cedarburg High School, where he was a member of the debate team. He earned his bachelor’s in summa cum laude at Georgetown University’s Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University, and a master’s degree in economics at Darwin College, University of Cambridge. When he was at Georgetown, Clement successfully competed in the American Parliamentary Debate Association. He earned his J.D. degree from the magna cumlaude at Harvard Law School where he was the Supreme Court editor of the Harvard Law Review. He was also among the 8 editors for the annual Harvard Law Review comedy which was responsible for the release of a satirical parody of an article written by Mary Joe Frug on the one-year anniversary of her murder. Clement and the other seven editors apologized for the parody following backlash from both faculty and students.

Following law school Clement initially worked for Justice Laurence Silberman of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit and later in the court of Justice Antonin Scalia of the Supreme Court of the United States. Following his clerkships, he was associates in Kirkland & Ellis in the Washington, D.C. office of Kirkland & Ellis. Clement was later appointed as the Chief Counsel for the Subcommittee on the Constitution, Federalism and Property Rights of the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee. In the following years, he was an associate at King & Spalding’s Washington, D.C., office of King & Spalding, where he led their appellate practices. He also worked from 1998 until 2004 as an adjunct professor at Georgetown University Law Center, in which he led a class regarding the segregation of powers.

As of November 20, 2008, Clement re-joined King & Spalding as a partner in its expanding appellate litigation practice. As part of King & Spalding, he argued on behalf of the NRA in the Supreme Court case McDonald v. Chicago on March 2, 2010.

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Clement was mentioned as a potential Supreme Court nominee of Republican presidential nominees John McCain and Mitt Romney. In 2014, Jeffrey Toobin named Clement a likely Supreme Court nominee in the event of a Republican victory in the 2016 presidential election.

Facts & Trivia

Paul Ranked on the list of most popular Lawyer. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in United States. Paul Clement celebrates birthday on June 24 of every year.

What is Paul Clement doing now?

Paul Clement (born 8 January 1972) is an English professional football manager and coach, who is currently a first-team coach at Everton. He has been assistant manager to Carlo Ancelotti several times – at Chelsea, Paris Saint- Germain, Real Madrid, and Bayern Munich.

Who has argued before the Supreme Court the most?

CARTER G. PHILLIPS is one of the most experienced Supreme Court and appellate lawyers in the country. Since joining Sidley, Carter has argued 79 cases before the Supreme Court, more than any other lawyer in private practice.

How much does Paul Clement make?

According to a new contract dated Sept. 30, a revised salary cap of $1.5 million has been set for Paul D. Clement, the former Bush administration solicitor general who was tapped in April by House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) to lead the House’s defense of DOMA in court.

Is Paul Clement married?

Clement’s wife, Alexandra , a Harvard Business School graduate, was the primary earner in the family early on, but for now is raising their three boys, ages 13, 11, and 9.

Who are the Chelsea backroom staff?

They are Zsolt Low and Arno Michels , who both worked with Tuchel previously, as has Benjamin Weber who is joining in a data analytics role. Remaining as part of the coaching team are Joe Edwards and Anthony Barry and in the dugout as the goalkeeper coach will be Henrique Hilario, continuing in that position.