Solicitor General

The Office of Solicitor General is responsible for handling Arkansas’s appellate and high-profile national litigation, helping shape both state and national jurisprudence.  The office represents Arkansas in the United States Supreme Court and is responsible for constitutional, high-profile, and strategic litigation in the federal courts of appeal and the Arkansas Supreme Court. The office also assists with strategic and critical litigation at the trial level and works with other solicitor general offices across the country to coordinate nationwide litigation and amicus strategy.  Since the office’s inception less than a decade ago, the office’s lawyers have successfully argued two cases in the United States Supreme Court and racked up an impressive string of appellate victories in voting rights, First Amendment, administrative, environmental, and criminal cases.  The office currently consists of five lawyers and a paralegal.  In 2024, the office’s lawyers were awarded the National Association of Attorneys General’s Best Supreme Court Brief Award for their brief in Muldrow v. City of St. Louis, 601 U.S. 346 (2024).