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About a thousand feet away from the Oval Office, in their ninth-floor suite overlooking the White House, the attorneys of Boyden Gray are going all in for President Donald Trump’s agenda.
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“The next generation of Republican leaders are folks like Marco Rubio and JD Vance and Josh Hawley and Jim Banks and so on and so forth,” said Oren Cass, founder of the new-right think tank American Compass. “In that world, Boyden Gray really stands alone as the firm that is at the cutting edge of actually developing the legal strategy to accompany that political push and those policy priorities.”
“The role that an institution plays as a talent pipeline is also critical,” Cass said. “And I think Boyden Gray … has really established itself as the place for young legal talent to go if they themselves want to then become leaders in this movement.”
“Being the guy at Boyden Gray is kinda like the Supreme Court clerkship of the new right,” he said. “That is an extremely important service to provide.”
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