Blakely‘s lawyer gets more props

I joked here this weekend that Blakely might be called the Rodney Dangerfield of Supreme Court decisions because it may not always gets the respect I think it deserves.  But, thankfully, at least Blakely‘s Supreme Court lawyer is getting the respect he is due.

As discussed here, earlier this month the Los Angeles Times did this lovely profile of Jeff Fisher, the (young) Seattle lawyer who argued and won both Blakely and Crawford v. Washington last term before the Supreme Court.  And now, based on this amazing High Court track record, The National Law Journal in this article has named Jeff runner-up as “Lawyer of the Year.”  (To find out who beat out Jeff, read here