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Speaking With Experts: Judge Andre Davis interviewed by Steve Klepper Part 1
Judge Andre Davis, retired Fourth Circuit Judge and Baltimore City Solicitor, speaks with Kramon & Graham's Steve Klepper about mentors and role models. In this episode they discuss Judge Davis's admiration for Judge Thurgood Marshall, his early experience at the Housing Authority of Baltimore City, law school at the University of Maryland, his clerkships for Judge Frank A. Kaufman and Judge Francis Murnaghan, Jr. and working for the Department of Justice Civil Rights Division. Steve Klepper is the head of the appellate practice at Kramon & Graham. Their conversation continues in Part 2 of this podcast.
00:00:00 Introduction
00:00:30 Judge Davis's role models and inspiration from Justice Thurgood Marshall
00:06:20 Experience at the Housing Authority of Baltimore City between college and law school and later as a district judge
00:20:18 Role models and mentors at the University of Maryland Law School: Larry Gibson, Bill Reynolds, Peter Quint
00:23:05 The importance of judicial clerkship and clerking for Judge Frank A. Kaufman at the Court of Appeals of Maryland
00:35:45 Clerking for Judge Francis Murnaghan, Jr. US Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit
00:42:11 Experience as an appellate lawyer at the Department of Justice Civil Rights Division
00:46:36 Experience in private practice
