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During the summer after his second year of law school at Yale, Ely worked as a summer clerk at the Washington law firm Arnold, Fortas & Porter.
After graduating from Yale Law School in 1963, Ely served as the youngest staff lawyer on the Warren Commission, which investigated the assassination of President John F. Kennedy ’40.
Ely taught at Harvard, Yale and Stanford, and in 1975 spent a year serving as general counsel of the U.S. Department of Transportation, but the University of Miami captured his heart.
While on a scuba diving trip in the Florida Keys, Ely visited the University of Miami and found the faculty and atmosphere to be “intellectually alive,” according to the dean of Miami’s School of Law, Dennis O. Lynch.
Ely left Stanford for the other sunshine state in 1996. He was on the faculty at Miami when he died.