CONCORD, N.H. (AP) - The U.S. Solicitor General Donald Verrilli will be the keynote speaker at the New Hampshire Supreme Court’s annual John W. King Memorial Lecture Series.
Verrilli is scheduled to speak Friday at 5:15 p.m. at the Supreme Court on Charles Doe Drive in Concord.
In 2012, Verrilli was the lead lawyer defending the Affordable Care Act - sometimes referred to as Obamacare - before the U.S. Supreme Court.
Verrilli was deputy counsel to President Barack Obama before Obama nominated him in 2011 to succeed Elena Kagan as solicitor general, after Kagan was nominated to the Supreme Court.
The Office of the Solicitor General is in charge of all litigation involving the government at the U.S. Supreme Court.
Verrilli received his undergraduate degree from Yale University and his law degree from Columbia Law School, where he was editor-in-chief of the Columbia Law Review. For many years he co-chaired the Supreme Court practice at the law firm of Jenner & Block.
The King Lecture Series - established 15 years ago in honor of the late chief justice - focuses on contemporary legal issues. Past speakers include U.S. Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer, New York Times reporter Linda Greenhouse and Kagan, who was the first woman appointed dean of Harvard Law School - a post she held from 2003 to 2009.
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