Degrees:
B.A., Dickinson College; J.D., University of Pennsylvania
Specialties/Areas of Expertise:
Criminal law and procedure; trial advocacy; dispute resolution; attorney-client privilege; evidence; sentencing; legal ethics; civil rights; congressional matters
Affiliations:
Profile:
» Click here to view detailed profile
Brief Bio:
- clerked for U.S. District Judge Stanley A. Weigel in San Francisco in 1970-71 and for Associate Justice Thurgood Marshall during the 1971 term of the Supreme Court
- named deputy assistant attorney general in the Criminal Division of the Department of Justice (1988)
- former Chair of the ABA Criminal Justice Section, of the ABA Justice Kennedy Commission, and the ABA Commission on Effective Criminal Sanctions; member of the ABA House of Delegates
- served as chair of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia Civil Justice Reform Act Advisory Group
- appointed director of the Tax Refund Fraud Task Force (1994)