[1] He was admitted to the Maryland Bar in 1914, was a law clerk in Baltimore the same year, and subsequently went into private practice.

[1] From 1954 through 1956, Sobeloff served as United States Solicitor General in the Administration of President Dwight D.

[1] Sobeloff presented the government's arguments on the implementation of the Supreme Court's decision in Brown v. Board of Education, to outlaw segregation in public schools.

[1] Sobeloff was nominated by President Dwight D. Eisenhower on January 12, 1956, to a seat on the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit vacated by Judge Morris Ames Soper.

[2] He served as Chief Judge and as a member of the Judicial Conference of the United States from 1958 to 1964.