Grokster Preview: Meet the Lawyers

• Donald Verrilli Jr., the Jenner & Block partner and former William Brennan Jr. clerk who has played a dominant role in nearly every telecommunications case before the Court in recent years, will argue in favor of copyright protection for the movie and music industries in the Grokster case.

• Opposite Verrilli will be Richard Taranto, whose low-tech D.C. firm Farr & Taranto doesn't even have a Web site. The former clerk for Justice Sandra Day O'Connor will argue on behalf of high-tech Grokster and StreamCast that their file-sharing software does not violate copyright.

• Acting Solicitor General Paul Clement, a former Scalia clerk, will argue along with Verrilli in the Grokster case.

Excerpted from Top Attorneys Tapped for High Court Tech Cases (Tony Mauro, Legal Times, 03-28-2005)