General Counsel in Robes: Why In-House Lawyers Joining the Bench Could Become a Trend

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After five years as a U.S. magistrate judge for California’s Northern District, Paul Grewal had his future mapped out. He’d spend the next three decades on the bench and retire. Up to that point, he’d followed a relatively traditional path from law school to a clerkship to a Big Law partnership to a judgeship.