Dear JRCLS Members,

We are excited to host Judge Steven J. Menashi, of the US Second Circuit Court of Appeals, at a luncheon that will be held at the Kirkland & Ellis New York Office, located at 601 Lexington Avenue, New York, NY. The luncheon will take place at 12:00 pm, on Tuesday, September 16th.

Judge Menashi was appointed to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit on November 14, 2019. Previously, he served as special assistant and associate counsel to the President in the White House and as acting general counsel at the U.S. Department of Education. He was assistant professor of law at Scalia Law School, George Mason University, where he taught administrative law and civil procedure, and a research fellow at New York University School of Law and Georgetown University Law Center. He was also a partner at Kirkland & Ellis LLP in New York, where he practiced appellate and commercial litigation, and served as a law clerk to Justice Samuel Alito on the Supreme Court of the United States and to Judge Douglas Ginsburg on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit. He graduated from Stanford Law School, where he was elected to Order of the Coif and served as senior articles editor of the Stanford Law Review, and from Dartmouth College, where he was elected to Phi Beta Kappa.

Please RSVP to the event, as seating is limited. RSVP link