Admitted
1988, Florida; U.S. District Court, Middle District of Florida; U.S. Court of Appeals, Fourth, Fifth and Eleventh Circuits; U.S. Supreme Court
Law School
Duke University, M.A., J.D. with high honors, 1987
Law School Graduation Year
1987
College
Wake Forest University, B.A., cum laude, 1984
Memberships
Hillsborough County (Treasurer and Board Member, Young Lawyers Section, 1990-1992; Chair, Trial Lawyers Section, 2001-2002), Federal (Member, National Council, 2002; President, Tampa Bay Chapter, 2000-2001) and American Bar Associations; The Florida Bar (Chair, Grievance Committee 13 A, 1994-1995); The National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers; Hillsborough Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers (Member, Executive Board, 1994—); Barrister, Herbert G. Goldburg Criminal Law American Inn of Court.
Biographical
Order of the Coif. Member: Moot Court Board; First Place Team, J. Braxton Craven Memorial Moot Court Competition. Administrative Editor, Law and Contemporary Problems, 1986-1987. Law Clerk to Hon. Theodore McMillian, U.S. Court of Appeals, Eighth Circuit, 1988. Author: The Incompatibility of Real Offense Sentencing Guidelines and the Federal Criminal Code, 7:3 Fed. Sen. Rptr. 125, 1994; Defense Strategies for Litigating Substantial Assistance Downward Departures, The NACDL Champion, July 1994. Co-Author: Grand Jury Law and Practice, 2nd ed. (West Group); Enlisting Grand Juries in the War on Terrorism, 25:2 Harvard J. Law and Pub. Policy, 699, 2002; Moore's Federal Practice, Rules of Criminal Procedure, Chapters 5, 9, 10, 26.3 and 35; Drug Testing and Public Employment: Toward a Rational Application of the Fourth Amendment, 51:1 Law and Contemp. Probs. 253, 1988. Adjunct Professor, Stetson University, College of Law, 1990-1994. Program Chair, National Seminar on Federal Sentencing Guidelines, 1996—. Co-Chair, Practitioners' Advisory Group, U.S. Sentencing Commission. Listed in: The Best Lawyers in America; Law and Leading Attorneys for Criminal Defense.