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Jenner & Block's Civil Rights Stalwart: Paul M. Smith

Law360, New York (November 10, 2014, 6:10 PM EST) -- It's hardly rare for the nation's top appellate litigators to have a lucky necktie for big oral arguments, but Jenner & Block LLP's Paul M. Smith may be the only member of the Supreme Court bar who has to go to the Smithsonian whenever he wants to visit his.

As part of an upcoming retrospective on the history of American gay rights, the museum asked Smith, who is openly gay, to hand over the tie he wore during one of the movement's watershed moments: his 2003 oral argument in Lawrence v. Texas, which led to a repeal of the state's ban...

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