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From Harvard Law to Conservative Legal Stronghold

Paul Clement's ability to land on his feet has amazed even his critics. He left his white-shoe law firm after it withdrew as counsel to the House of Representatives in defending the 15-year-old Defense of Marriage Act, a client Clement brought to the firm. Clement found a new job so fast that when a small band of supporters of same-sex marriage showed up outside his new office in late April to hand out printed flyers, they'd only had time to cross out the name of his old firm, King & Spalding, and write in the new one, Bancroft.

Clement walked out on King & Spalding after his representation drew complaints from longtime clients, according to people with knowledge of the matter. His new colleagues at Bancroft were more amused than concerned about their newfound notoriety. Referring to the protesters who showed up at the firm's door, Bancroft partner H. Christopher Bartolomucci says: "We took their piece of paper and thanked them, and that was the end of the meeting."

Clement's arrival has put tiny Bancroft on the map as a go-to firm in Washington for high-stakes appellate work, whether for conservative causes percolating through the federal courts or complex business cases like the one Clement argued on June 3 before a federal appeals panel in St. Louis on behalf of the National Football League owners in its labor dispute. "I would expect they would have the kind of success that boutiques composed of tremendously talented guys tend to have," says Bradford Berenson, a partner at Sidley Austin in Washington. Adds Berenson: "The difficulty is not going to be attracting business, it's going to be having adequate resources" to handle big cases.

Clement, Bartolomucci, and Bancroft founder Viet Dinh became close friends in the early 1990s while working on the . (Barack Obama was president of the law review during Clement and Bartolomucci's first year at the publication.) The three bonded over long hours checking legal citations, wonky arguments over the Commerce Clause, and late-night dinners of Vietnamese food. "Those are guys who would be successful whatever they would do," says Harvard Law professor Charles Fried, who hired Dinh and Bartolomucci as research assistants when they were students.

Since graduating, each has worked in all three branches of government on matters ranging from judicial nominations to the investigation of President Bill Clinton's Whitewater land deal to counterterrorism policy in the wake of Sept. 11. Clement, 44, was Solicitor General for George W. Bush and has argued 53 cases before the high court, making him one of a handful of appellate specialists in Washington with that much experience. Dinh, 43, who headed the Justice Dept.'s Office of Legal Policy under Bush, is also a full-time professor at Georgetown University Law Center and a board member at News Corp. ( NWS ). Bartolomucci, 44, was a protégé of Chief Justice John Roberts while in private practice. He went on to serve as associate White House counsel under Bush, vetting U.S. attorneys and handling pardon requests.

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Last week there was an issue with the water in our neighbourhood (a leak in the mains somewhere). The HOA shut the water off so they could fix it. JUST before this happened though we noticed we had no hot water.

We were told the water was back and so I looked at the boiler as I thought it may have shut off with there being no water to protect the element or something and hit the reset button which had tripped. It started working again.

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