Admitted
1961, Illinois; 1969, New York; 1979, Florida, U.S. District Court, Southern District of Florida, Trial Bar, U.S. Court of Appeals, Eleventh and Second Circuits and U.S. Supreme Court
Law School
University of Chicago Law School, J.D., 1961
Law School Graduation Year
1961
College
Brown University, B.A., with Distinction, 1958; University of Oxford; University of Oviedo, Spain
Memberships
Palm Beach, Illinois State and New York State Bar Associations; The Florida Bar; Academy of Florida Trial Lawyers.
Biographical
National Defender Fellow, 1964-1965. Phi Delta Phi. Gulbenkian Fellow, 1965. Author: Escobedo and Beyond: the Need for a Fourteenth Amendment Code of Criminal Procedure, 56 J. Crim. Law, Criminology and Police Science 143, 1965, cited in Miranda v. Arizona; Defense of the Poor in American State Courts, Chicago Bar Record, 1966; Defense Use of Grand Jury Testimony for Impeachment in Illinois, 52 Illinois Bar Journal 552, 1964; Extending the State's Right to Appeal in Criminal Cases, Chicago Bar Record, 1961. Chief Capital Trial Lawyer, Office of the Public Defender, Palm Beach County, Florida, 1980-1981. Certified Family Law and Circuit Court Mediator and Arbitrator. (Certified as a Criminal Trial Advocacy Specialist by the National Board of Trial Advocacy)