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Early Experience: Wiggin and Dana Partners Help Next-Gen Lawyers

"I remember one thing they said was when you're setting up a brief, you have to first make the panel care, and then you have to make it seem easy for them," Ben Alter of Jenner & Block said. "These are things that I held onto. The great exposure to the appellate practice set me down the path that I'm on now, which includes a lot of appellate work. I worked on my first case at the Supreme Court this past year, and I ended up clerking on the Second Circuit."

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