UT Hires Latham & Watkins To Argue Discrimination Case

AUSTIN – With the stakes high for the continuation of affirmative action in college admission policies, the University of Texas has opened its wallet to hire a team of experienced lawyers to argue their case at the U.S. Supreme Court.

UT has contracted to pay $977,000 in legal fees, plus expenses, to three lawyers from Latham & Watkins’ Washington D.C. office. They include a former solicitor general under the Bush administration and two lawyers who won a 2003 case for the University of Michigan Law School.