cases for free once the supreme court has taken it and in this case it was a man by the name of steven levin, who was a pro say litigant living as far away from the u.s. mainland as possible, in guam, a u.s. territory. and he had gotten his case accepted. it was a claim for a medical battery from, a botched cataract surgery and as soon as his case got accepted no fewer than a dozen law firms jumped on him saying please pick me. we want to argue your case best supreme court. which i thought was a by-product of the competition for cases now and, you know, there's, i think, you know, there is some debate over how helpful it is to have a really seasoned litigant before the justices. the justices certainly seem to appreciate it. they have talked publicly how they like the fact that they can get really high-quality advocacy and i think that's a pitch that many of the advocates themselves make to clients that i can speak the language of these justices. when you were talking about art, the very active bench we have here, some of these advocates say, well we know how to get in there. we know how to m

in this case it was a man named steven levin who was a pro se lit gant living as far away as possible in guam a u.s. territory and he had gotten his case accepted. it was a claim for a medical battery from a botched cataract surgery and as soon as his case got accepted no fewer than a dozen law firms jumped on him saying please pick me. which i thought was a bipe product of the competition for cases now. and there's a -- i think there is some debate over how helpful it is to have a really seasoned litigant before the justices. the justices certainly seem to appreciate it. they have talked publicly about how they like the fact that they can get really high quality advocacy and i think that is a pitch that many of the advocates themselves make to clients, is that i can speak the language of these justices. or when you were talking about the very active bench we have here, some of these advocates say well we know how to get in there, we know how to make our point and we will not be thrown by the fact that justice sotamayer will be asking as many questions while justice alito from the far