amy: it was reagan and charles friede was the solicitor general at the time.t was near the ends his 10 years that i was hired. i had lucked into a summer internship at the solicitor general's office while at columbia law school. i had a professor who was a visiting professor from chicago, he is rather famous and i had taken a couple of courses with him. he had said to me, it is clear you love to argue. he said, you should really think about doing an internship at the justice department and the solicitor general's office because the solicitor general is the master litigator for the united states government and everybody in the office is devoted to that mission and i applied and i got the job. so i spent a summer there at the sg's office. i got to know charles friede, people in the office, and they asked me to come back on the permanent staff after my clerkship was over. it was quite a challenge because i was very green. i was a newly minted lawyer. i really did not have a lot of experience. i did not have any litigation experience so it was a little reckless on

charles friede was the solicitor general at the time.ad lucked into a summer internship at the solicitor's office while i was at columbia law school. i had a visiting professor from chicago who is rather famous and prolific. i had taken a couple of courses with him. in he had said to me, it's clear that you love to argue. he said, you should really think about doing an internship at the justice department at the solicitor general's office. the solicitor general is the master litigator for the united states government and everybody in the office is devoted to that mission. and i applied and got the job. so i spent a summer there. i got to know charles freed, people in the office, and they asked me to come back on the permanent staff after my clerkship was over. it was quite a challenge because i was very green. i was a newly minted lawyer. i did not have a lot of experience. i did not have any litigation experience. it was a little reckless on charles freed's part. but i learned the ropes. i argued 15 cases before the court during my tenu