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Jeffrey Toobin
Emmy Award-winning ABC/CNN Legal Analyst and best-selling author
awarded Doctor of Humane Letters and served as Commencement Speaker
Jeffrey Toobin, a staff writer at The
New Yorker since January
1993 was recognized for his work in broadcasting, literature and
the law. Prior to joining The New Yorker, Mr. Toobin served as
an Assistant United States Attorney in Brooklyn, New York. He also
served as an associate counsel in the Office of Independent Counsel
Lawrence E. Walsh, an experience that provided the basis for his
first book, Opening Arguments: A Young Lawyer’s First Case-United
States v. Oliver North.
Mr. Toobin is the legal analyst for CNN, which he joined in 2002
after six years with ABC News. In 2000, he received an Emmy Award
for his coverage of the Elian Gonzalez case. He authored, Too
Close to Call: The 36-Day Battle to Decide the 2000 Election, A
Vast
Conspiracy: The Real Story of the Sex Scandal that Nearly Brought
Down a President, and The Run of His Life: The People v. O.J. Simpson.
The latter two books were New York Times best-sellers.
Since joining the magazine, Mr. Toobin has covered legal affairs
and written articles on such subjects as Attorney General John
Ashcroft, the Florida recount, Kenneth Starr’s investigation
of President Clinton, the Paula Jones sexual harassment case, Supreme
Court Justice Clarence Thomas, and the trials of Timothy McVeigh
and O.J. Simpson. In his article, Lunch At Martha’s, Toobin
obtained the first interview with Martha Stewart regarding her
investigation for insider trading. His article, An Incendiary
Defense,
disclosed for the first time the Simpson defense team’s plans
to accuse Mark Fuhrman of planting evidence and to play the race
card.
Mr. Toobin received his A.B. from Harvard College in 1982, and
in 1986, graduated magna cum laude from Harvard Law School, where
he was an editor of the Harvard Law Review.
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