Featured Publications

Purging Racial Prejudice from the Administration of Justice, WLALA
May 1, 2017

In the words of Justice Kennedy, there is an “imperative to purge racial prejudice from the administration of justice,” which the courts have given strength and creed since ratification of the Civil War Amendments. This “racial prejudice purge” has historically infiltrated the courts and has influenced their decisions since the...

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The Small Firm Lawyer
Jun 1, 2010

I come from a family of lawyers. My mother is a lawyer, my father, my sister, my brother, my uncles and cousins, on both sides, are all lawyers. They are all, like me, solo or small firm lawyers, except for my uncle who owned and ran the New York Marino...

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Orange Is The New Black: InStyle To Inmate
Jan 1, 2010

Orange Is the New Black: My Year in a Women's Prison (Spiegel & Grau, New York, 2010), is the memoir of Piper Kerman, an upper middle-class Smith College graduate sent to prison for a drug conspiracy. In the course of her tale, we learn her case dragged on for four...

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Defending International Extraditions, The Champion
Dec 1, 2008

Your new client, Alex, is leaving his office one ordinary afternoon when he is approached in the parking lot by several Federal Marshals. The Marshals say they just want to ask him a few questions, but grill him about a foreign business venture he'd invested in some years before. It...

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