Aileen McGrath has known she wanted to be an appellate lawyer since she was about seven-years old. That’s when McGrath, now a partner in the Supreme Court and appellate practice at Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld, saw her father make his sole argument at the U.S. Supreme Court. , He spent much of his career handling appeals for the New York City Law Department.
“For the rest of his career, he had a drawing on the wall of his office where I had drawn a picture of myself standing at the lectern,” said McGrath when we spoke with her earlier this week. “I had captioned it: ‘I want to be a lawyer because I’m good at arguing.’”
