Ethan V. Torrey, an insurance coverage and reinsurance litigator, has been named Legal Counsel of the Supreme Court of the United States. He will replace Scott S. Harris, who became Clerk of the Court in September 2013. Mr. Torrey will assume his duties on January 6, 2014.
The Court's Legal Office, established in 1973, provides support to the Justices on a variety of case-related issues and legal services for the Court as an institution.
Mr. Torrey will be joining the Court from the law firm of Choate Hall & Stewart LLP in Boston, where he is a litigation partner specializing in insurance coverage and reinsurance disputes and other kinds of complex business cases.
Before joining Choate, he was a litigation associate at Ropes & Gray LLP. From 2005 to 2006, Mr. Torrey served as special assistant district attorney in Middlesex County, Massachusetts. He served as a law clerk to Circuit Judge Leonard I. Garth of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit and District Judge Mark L. Wolf of the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts.
Mr. Torrey earned his B.A., cum laude, at the University of Pennsylvania in 1992, his M.A. at Columbia University's Graduate School of Arts and Sciences in 1996, and his J.D. from Columbia Law School in 1999.
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