Government
Feb. 11, 2002
Olson Channels Grief Into Job
WASHINGTON - Last summer, life was looking amazingly bright for Theodore B. (Ted) Olson. The veteran litigator from Los Angeles' Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher was still basking in the glow of double victories at the Supreme Court in Bush v. Gore , the 2000 presidential ballot-counting case. And Olson had survived a nasty Senate confirmation battle to become the U.S. solicitor general - the government's lawyer at the high court - a job he calls "the dream of most every lawyer."
The veteran litigator from Los Angeles' Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher was still basking in the glow of double victories at the Supreme Court in Bush v. Gore, the 2000 presidential ballot-counti...
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