Without it, the Federalist Society might not exist, nor its network of 35,000 conservative lawyers.

Can a conservative corporate lawyer find romance with a public defender?

The reactive attitude of the young conservative lawyers may be related to how they acquired their views.

Judge Roberts, one conservative lawyer said, may be a fine candidate but has a spare record that makes him less of a known quantity.

He was also resisted by conservative lawyers and by most of the military.

There are plenty of conservative lawyers at firms, in government service and on the bench.

- nearly 1,000 conservative lawyers gathered here this week at the annual convention of the Federalist Society.

Since that might include almost all of his nominees, there was a little less jauntiness as the conservative lawyers gathered this year.

He is regarded as a conservative lawyer and a politician.

He was known as a conservative 'black-letter lawyer' during his service in Parliament and on the bench.