State Bar & Bar Associations
Aug. 6, 2002
Starr Focuses on Rehnquist's Court During Bar Speech
Former independent counsel and U.S. Solicitor General Kenneth Starr addressed the Federal Bar Association's Orange County chapter at a dinner on July 25.
Former independent counsel and U.S. Solicitor General Kenneth Starr addressed the Federal Bar Association's Orange County chapter at a dinner on July 25.
The event, held at the Pacific Club in Newport Beach, drew more than 100 bar members to hear Starr, who spoke mostly about Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist's Supreme Court.
A former partner with Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher who practices at Kirkland & Ellis, Starr observed how the group of nine Supreme Court justices has been together longer than any previous group of justices and how well the group gets along.
"Starr noted that there is absolutely no rancor on this court, notwithstanding their passionate opinions, and they are very collegial," says Jeffrey H. Reeves, chapter treasurer and an Irvine partner at Gibson Dunn.
"He was a terrific speaker who had everyone really rapt," Reeves says.
But there was one topic of which Starr refused to speak. He deflected an audience member's hypothetical about what three questions Starr would ask President Clinton if he had the opportunity to play talk-show host Larry King and have the former president on his show. Starr investigated Clinton for perjury charges arising from Clinton's affair with White House intern Monica Lewinsky.
Founded in 1986, the Orange County chapter of the Federal Bar Association is the third largest chapter in the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, with 350 members.
Christina Landers
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