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Visibility Rankings  | | #73 out of 11,846 lawyers in Atlanta, Georgia | | #2,733 out of 892,553 total lawyers Overall |
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| Practice Areas | Commercial Litigation; Securities Litigation | | | Peer Review Rating | AV
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What's this? | | | Education | University of California at Berkeley, J.D., 1986, Harvard University, A.B., cum laude, 1982 | | | Admitted | 1986, Massachusetts (inactive); 1987, U.S. Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit and U.S. District Court, District of Maryland; 1988, District of Columbia; 1993, U.S. Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit; 1994, U.S. Supreme Court and U.S. Court of Appeals, Second, Sixth, Ninth, Eleventh and District of Columbia Circuits; 1995, U.S. Court of Appeals, Eighth Circuit; 2002, Georgia; 2005, U.S. District Court, Northern District of Georgia; 2007, U.S. Court of Appeals, Third Circuit | |
| Memberships | State Bar of Georgia (Member, Sections on: General Practice and Trial Law, Business Law); District of Columbia Bar; American Bar Association (Member, Sections on: Business Law, Committee on Federal Regulation of Securities, Subcommittee on Civil Litigation and SEC Enforcement Matters; Litigation, Committee on Securities Litigation). | | | Born | Boston, Massachusetts, 1958 | | | Biography | U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, 1993-2001 (Senior Special Counsel, Division of Enforcement; Legal Counsel to SEC Commissioner Norman S. Johnson; Special Counsel, Appellate Group, Office of the General Counsel); Special Assistant U.S. Attorney, U.S. Attorney's Office for the Northern District of Georgia, 1994-1999. Law Clerk to Chief Judge Alexander Harvey, II, U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland, 1986-1988. Exchange student at Harvard Law School, 1985-1986. Harvard College Scholar. Associate Editor and Member, California Law Review, 1984-1986. Listed in Who's Who in the World, Who's Who in America and Who's Who in American Law. Author, "Defending SEC Investigations and Enforcement Actions," Chapter 1, The Practice of Corporate Law: Leading Lawyers on Best Practices for Representing Public and Private Companies, Aspatore Books, 2006. | | | Reported Cases | CS-Lakeview at Gwinnett, Inc. v. Simon Prop. Group, Inc., A06A1841, A06A1842, COURT OF APPEALS OF GEORGIA, 283 Ga. App. 686; 642 S.E.2d 393; 2007 Ga. App. LEXIS 169; 2007 Fulton County D. Rep. 528, February 22, 2007, Decided, cert. granted July 31, 2007; Knight v. Caremark Rx, C.A. No. 1750-N, COURT OF CHANCERY OF DELAWARE, NEW CASTLE, 2007 Del. Ch. LEXIS 6, October 30, 2006, Submitted, January 12, 2007, Decided, THIS OPINION HAS NOT BEEN RELEASED FOR PUBLICATION. UNTIL RELEASED, IT IS SUBJECT TO REVISION OR WITHDRAWAL; United States v. Lincoln, 163 F.3d 1358 (11th Cir. 1998) (Table), cert. denied, 119 S. Ct. 1372 (1999); United States v. Brooks, 62 F.3d 1425, 1995 WL 451090 (9th Cir. 1995) (Table, Text in WESTLAW); United States v. Word, No. 95-8288, UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE ELEVENTH CIRCUIT, 129 F.3d 1209; 1997 U.S. App. LEXIS 33103; 11 Fla. L. Weekly Fed. C 797, November 21, 1997, Decided; SEC v. Lavin, No. 96-5286, UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA CIRCUIT, 324 U.S. App. D.C. 162; 111 F.3d 921; 1997 U.S. App. LEXIS 9601; 37 Fed. R. Serv. 3d (Callaghan) 806, February 14, 1997, Argued, May 2, 1997, Decided; SEC v. Life Partners, No. 95-5364,Consolidated with Nos. 96-5018, 96-5090, UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA CIRCUIT, 322 U.S. App. D.C. 189; 102 F.3d 587; 1996 U.S. App. LEXIS 33222; Fed. Sec. L. Rep. (CCH) P99,368, December 20, 1996, Filed; Vail v. SEC, No. 95-60502, UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE FIFTH CIRCUIT, 101 F.3d 37; 1996 U.S. App. LEXIS 31813, December 6, 1996, Decided; SEC v. Midwest Invs., Case No: 94-3433, UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE SIXTH CIRCUIT, 1996 U.S. App. LEXIS 22346, July 29, 1996, FILED; SEC v. Life Partners, Inc., No. 95-5364 Consolidated with 96-5018, 96-5090, UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA CIRCUIT, 318 U.S. App. D.C. 302; 87 F.3d 536; 1996 U.S. App. LEXIS 16117; Fed. Sec. L. Rep. (CCH) P99,256, April 4, 1996, Argued, July 5, 1996, Decided, Rehearing Denied December 20, 1996, Reported at: 102 F.3d 587, 1996 U.S. App. LEXIS 33222; SEC v. Midwest Investments, Inc., 85 F.3d 630, 1996 WL 229783 (6th Cir.) (Table, Text in WESTLAW), cert. denied, 520 U.S. 1165 (1997); SEC v. Grossman, 101 F.3d 109, 1996 WL 137630 (2d Cir. 1996) (Table, Text in WESTLAW); SEC v. Estate of Hirshberg, No. 95-6227, UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE SECOND CIRCUIT, 101 F.3d 109, 1996 U.S. App. LEXIS 5578, March 26, 1996, Decided; First Independence Group v. SEC, Docket No. 93-4233, UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE SECOND CIRCUIT, 37 F.3d 30; 1994 U.S. App. LEXIS 27770; Fed. Sec. L. Rep. (CCH) P98,418, April 18, 1994, Argued, April 29, 1994, Decided, October 5, 1994, Filed; Peamon v. A A I Corp., No. 91-1051, UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE FOURTH CIRCUIT, 1991 U.S. App. LEXIS 27811, September 30, 1991, Argued; Hassett v. Goetzmann, 91 Civ. 7689 (DNE), UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF NEW YORK, 1992 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 19668, December 22, 1992, Decided, Appeal after remand at Hassett v. Goetzmann (In re CIS Corp.), 195 B.R. 251, 1996 Bankr. LEXIS 465 (Bankr. S.D.N.Y., 1996); Hassett v. Goetzmann, Misc. 2867, UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE NORTHERN DISTRICT OF NEW YORK, 1992 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 13218, August 27, 1992, Decided, September 1, 1992, Filed; Wheeler v. Goulart, Nos. 91-442, 91-450, District of Columbia Court of Appeals, 593 A.2d 173; 1991 D.C. App. LEXIS 169; 18 Media L. Rep. 2296, May 10, 1991, Argued, May 17, 1991, Decided; Mattingly v. Shifflett, No. 74, September Term, 1991, COURT OF APPEALS OF MARYLAND, 327 Md. 337; 609 A.2d 329; 1992 Md. LEXIS 126, July 23, 1992, July 23, 1992, Filed, As Corrected July 23, 1992; Cohen v. Apache Corp., 1993 WL 126560 (S.D.N.Y. Apr. 21, 1993); Cohen v. Apache Corp., 1991 WL 1017 (S.D.N.Y. Jan. 2, 1991); Robert M. Bass Group, Inc. v. Evans, 1989 WL 137936, 16 Del. J. Corp. L. 258 (Del. Ch. Nov. 16, 1989). | | | ISLN | 909510952 | |
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