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The States’ Role in Appellate Litigation: A Conversation Among Solicitors General
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Apr 23 2026
Thursday 6:30 p.m. EDT    

The States’ Role in Appellate Litigation: A Conversation Among Solicitors General

Caribbean Cinemas Fine Arts (Banco Popular)
PR-25
San Juan, PR
Speakers:
Omar J. Andino-Figueroa • Louis J. Capozzi • Michael R. Williams • Michael Zarian
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Puerto Rico Lawyer Chapter
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AI on the Bench: Should Judges Be Replaced by Algorithms?
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AI on the Bench: Should Judges Be Replaced by Algorithms?

Puerto Rico Lawyer Chapter

El Cairo
352 Calle Ensenada
San Juan, PR 00920
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Kyle Singhal
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Cancelling Justice? The Decline of Legal Education and Critical Reasoning
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Cancelling Justice? The Decline of Legal Education and Critical Reasoning

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Antonio's Restaurant
1406 Avenida Magdalena
San Juan, PR 00907
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Ilya Shapiro
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Omar J. Andino-Figueroa

Omar J. Andino-Figueroa

Deputy Solicitor General of Puerto Rico, Puerto Rico Department of Justice

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Louis J. Capozzi

Louis J. Capozzi

Associate, Jones Day

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Louis Capozzi is an associate at the Washington D.C. office of Jones Day and a Lecturer in Law at the University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School.  As a lawyer, he specializes in appellate advocacy and motions practice. 

Mr. Capozzi clerked for Justice Neil Gorsuch during the October 2021 Term, as well as for Judges J. Harvie Wilkinson III of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit and Anthony J. Scirica of the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit.  He graduated as the valedictorian from the University of Pennsylvania Law School in 2019. 

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Michael R. Williams

Michael R. Williams

Solicitor General, West Virginia

Biography

Michael Williams is the Solicitor General for the State of West Virginia. In that role, Michael represents the State in appeals before state and federal courts, including the U.S. Supreme Court. Michael also coordinates strategic affirmative litigation on the State’s behalf, including litigation against the federal government.

Before joining the Attorney General’s Office, Michael co-led the complex briefing and appeals group at a Michigan boutique firm, representing Fortune 50 companies and others in actions across the country. He also practiced in the litigation groups of two Washington, D.C. firms and clerked with the Appellate Division of the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Maine.

Michael’s work has been honored with a Best Brief Award from the National Associationof Attorneys General and a Leader in the Law Award from Michigan Lawyers Weekly. He often speaks and writes on appellate-related issues.

Michael clerked twice in the Fourth Circuit: once with then-Chief Judge Deborah Chasanow of the U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland and later with Judge G. Steven Agee of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit. He attended George Washington University Law School and Bates College.

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Michael Zarian

Michael Zarian

Solicitor General, State of Idaho

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Michael Zarian is the Solicitor General for the State of Idaho. He oversees all appellate litigation for the state and serves as the state's chief appellate advocate. He also coordinates strategic offensive litigation and amicus filings on the state's behalf, supervises trial-court filings raising significant civil and constitutional issues, and advises the Attorney General and other state officers. He previously served as the Deputy Solicitor General of Idaho.
 
Michael graduated magna cum laude from Brigham Young University and with high honors from the University of Chicago Law School. Following law school, he clerked for the Honorable Sandra S. Ikuta on the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals and the Honorable Gregory G. Katsas on the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals. Before joining the Office of the Attorney General, Michael practiced civil litigation at Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP in Dallas, Texas, where he specialized in appeals and dispositive motions in high-stakes commercial cases.
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Kyle Singhal

Kyle Singhal

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Ilya Shapiro

Ilya Shapiro

Senior Fellow and Director of Constitutional Studies, Manhattan Institute

Biography

Ilya Shapiro is a senior fellow and director of constitutional studies at the Manhattan Institute and a contributing editor of City Journal. Previously he was executive director and senior lecturer at the Georgetown Center for the Constitution, and before that a vice president of the Cato Institute.

Shapiro is the author of Lawless: The Miseducation of America’s Elites (2025) and Supreme Disorder: Judicial Nominations and the Politics of America’s Highest Court (2020), coauthor of Religious Liberties for Corporations? (2014), and editor of 11 volumes of the Cato Supreme Court Review (2008-18). He has contributed to a variety of academic, popular, and professional publications, including the Wall Street Journal, Harvard Journal of Law & Public Policy, Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, USA Today, National Review, and Newsweek. He also regularly provides commentary for various media outlets, writes the Shapiro’s Gavel newsletter on Substack, and once appeared on the Colbert Report.

Shapiro has testified many times before Congress and state legislatures and has filed more than 500 amicus curiae “friend of the court” briefs in the Supreme Court. He lectures regularly on behalf of the Federalist Society, is a member of the board of fellows of the Jewish Policy Center, was an inaugural Washington Fellow at the National Review Institute, and has been an adjunct law professor at the George Washington University and University of Mississippi. He is also the chairman of the board of advisers of the Mississippi Justice Institute, a barrister in the Edward Coke Appellate Inn of Court, and a former member of the Virginia Advisory Committee to the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights.

Earlier in his career, Shapiro was a special assistant/​adviser to the Multi-​National Force in Iraq on rule-of-law issues and practiced at Patton Boggs and Cleary Gottlieb. Before entering private practice, he clerked for Judge E. Grady Jolly of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit. He holds an AB from Princeton University, an MSc from the London School of Economics, and a JD from the University of Chicago Law School.

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