Admitted
1980, New York, U.S. District Court, Northern and Western Districts of New York; U.S. Court of Appeals, Ninth and Second Circuits; 1992, U.S. Supreme Court
Law School
State University of New York at Buffalo, J.D., 1979
Law School Graduation Year
1979
College
State University of New York at Albany, B.A., magna cum laude, 1975
Memberships
Albany County (Former Chair, Federal Practice Committee), New York (Member, Sections on: Trial Lawyers; Federal and Commercial Litigation; Criminal Justice) and American (Member, Sections on: Litigation; Criminal Justice; Committee Member: Trial Practice; Trial Evidence; Criminal Litigation) Bar Associations; Capital District Trial Lawyers Association; National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers.
Biographical
Trial Attorney, U.S. Department of Justice, Washington, D.C. Honor Graduate Program, 1979-1980. Assistant U.S. Attorney, Northern District of New York, 1980-1989. Listed in Who's Who in American Law. Recipient: 1988, Superior performance as an Assistant U.S. Attorney; Commendations: 1989, Department of Justice, Attorney General's Asset Forfeiture Policy Advisory Committee; 1987, FBI Director, Sessions; 1985, FBI Director, William Webster. Lecturer, Federal Civil Discovery Practice for Experienced Litigators, NYSBA Seminar, 2000. Author, Federal Criminal Law Column, Albany County Bar Newsletter, 1999. Overall Planning Co-Chair, Local Chair & Lecturer, NYSBA Seminar: The United States Sentencing Guidelines, 1998; Local Chair, NYSBA Seminar: Juries, Grand and Petit, in New York State Criminal Cases, 1996; Lecturer, NYSBA Seminar: Practical Skills, Criminal Law, 1995; Local Chair and Lecturer, NYSBA Seminar: The Trial of a Drug Case, 1994; Lecturer, Albany County Bar Association Seminar: When the Feds Come Knocking at Your Client's Door (representing clients in federal criminal investigations), 1994; Lecturer, NYSBA Seminar: White Collar Crime, 1989.