Admitted
1954, District of Columbia
Law School
University of Virginia, LL.B., 1953
Law School Graduation Year
1953
College
Yale University, B.A., 1949
Memberships
The District of Columbia Bar (President, 1972-1973; Member, Board of Governors, 1973-1974); Bar Association of the District of Columbia (Member, Board of Directors, 1965-1967); American Judicature Society (Vice-President; Member, Executive Committee, Board of Trustees, 1989-1994)
Biographical
Phi Delta Phi. Winner, Moot Court Competition, Best Law Review Note, 1953. Recipient: 2000 Justice Potter Stewart Award, Council for Court Excellence; 1999 Lawyer of the Year, D.C. Bar Association; Common Cause Public Service Achievement Award, 1999; D.C. Governments Distinguished Public Service Award, 1999. Decisions Editor, Virginia Law Review, 1952-1953. Co-Editor, Justice Jackson's The Supreme Court in the American System of Government, 1955. Author: Death and The Supreme Court, Harcourt, Brace and World, Inc., 1961. Winner, Mystery Writers of America and Scribes Awards. Law Clerk to Justice Jackson, 1953-1954, Justice Frankfurter, 1954-1955 and Justice Harlan, 1955, U.S. Supreme Court. Associate Hogan & Hartson, 1955-1963; Partner, 1964-1998, 1999-2002; Of Counsel, 2003—. Inspector General of District of Columbia, 1998-1999. Special Assistant to the Attorney General of the United States, 1963 and to the White House, 1963-1964. Member, Board of Trustees, Executive Committee: American University, 1972-1987, Trustee Emeritus, 1987—. Chairman, Committee to Write Bicentennial History of D.C. Circuit, 1976. Member, Board of Governors, St. Albans School, 1957-1963, 1965-1971, Chairman, 1965-1967. Member, Advisory Board: Media Law Reporter, 1976-1985; Institute for Communications Law Studies of Columbus School of Law, Catholic University, 1982-1990. Special Counsel to House Committee on Standards of Official Conduct, 1980-1982. Outside Counsel to Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations, House Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce, 1978. Special Consultant to Subcommittee to Investigate Problems Connected with Refugees and Escapees, Senate Judiciary Committee, 1967-1968. Trustee and Member, Executive Committee, 1982— and Vice President and Chairman, Publications Committee, 1997—, Supreme Court Historical Society. Member, International Advisory Group, Toshiba Corp., 1993-1997. Member, Executive Committee and Board of Trustees, Washington Journalism Center, 1974-1993. Member, National Advisory Committee