Admitted
1977, District of Columbia; 1978, U.S. District Court, District of Columbia and U.S. Court of Appeals, District of Columbia Circuit; 1994, U.S. Supreme Court
Law School
Cornell University, J.D., 1977
Law School Graduation Year
1977
College
Columbia University, A.B., 1974
Memberships
The District of Columbia Bar (Member Sections on: Antitrust; Trade Regulation and Consumer Affairs; Corporation; Finance and Securities; Patent Trademark and Copyright; Litigation Law); American Bar Association (Member Sections on: Administrative and Regulatory Practice; Antitrust; Business; Patent, Trademark and Copyright Law).
Biographical
Law Clerk to the Honorable Edward A. Tamm, U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, 1977-1978. Author: Judge Tamm and the Evolution of Administrative Law: The Art of Judging, 74 Georgetown L.J. 1595, 1986; with Jerry Cohen, Pulling the Plug on Antitrust Law, The Nation, September 26, 1986; House Takes Up Cause of Discounters, Legal Times, Vol. X No. 30, December 1987; Supreme Court's 'Sharp' Ruling Means Higher Prices, Fewer Choices for Consumers, Manhattan Lawyer, May 31-June 6, 1988; Chapter, Consumer Protection -- Federal Trade Commission, as part of Changing America: Blueprints for the New Administration, edited by Mark Green, 1992; Antitrust and Clinton: Changes on the Horizon, The California Lawyer, February 1993; Action on Class Actions, The Recorder, April 30, 1997. Attorney, Office of the General Counsel, Federal Trade Commission, 1978-1981. Counsel, Subcommittee on Monopolies and Commercial Law, House Committee on the Judiciary, 1981-1986. General Counsel: Committee to Support the Antitrust Laws, 1986—; National Association of Securities and Commercial Law Attorneys, 1988-1996. Legislative Counsel, National Coalition of Petroleum Retailers and Service Station Dealers of America, 1988-1994. Member: Arlington County Democratic Committee, 1983-1987; Board of Directors, Violence Policy Center, 1996—; The American Antitrust Institute, 1998—; The Appleseed Foundation, 1999—; F.I.S.T. Fighters' Initiative For Support and Training, 1999—. Faculty Member, Copyright for the Nineties: What Every Lawyer Needs to Know, a series by West Publishing Company (1990). Guest Lecturer, Southwestern Law School, 1997, 1998.