Jeffrey Toobin
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Jeffrey Toobin (born 1960) is a lawyer, author, and television legal analyst. He covers legal stories for both The New Yorker and CNN.
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[edit] Education
Toobin graduated from Columbia Grammar and Preparatory School in New York City. He earned his Bachelor's degree from Harvard College in 1982, where he covered sports for The Harvard Crimson, using the column name "Inner Toobin." He graduated magna cum laude and earned a Truman Scholarship. He is also a 1986 magna cum laude graduate of Harvard Law School, where he was an editor of the Harvard Law Review.
[edit] Career
Toobin began freelancing for The New Republic as a law student. He went on to become a law clerk and work as an associate counsel to Independent Counsel Lawrence E. Walsh during the Iran-Contra affair and Oliver North's criminal trial, before becoming an Assistant U.S. Attorney in Brooklyn. He then took up his post at The New Yorker, and became the first television legal analyst in 1994, at ABC.
He currently is a staff writer at The New Yorker, a senior analyst for CNN, and the author of five books.
Toobin has provided broadcast legal analysis on many high profile cases, including Michael Jackson, the O.J. Simpson civil trial and the Starr investigation of President Clinton. He received a 2000 Emmy Award for his coverage of the Elián González custody saga.
[edit] Family
Toobin lives with his wife, Amy McIntosh, and two children in New York City. He is the son of pioneer woman journalist Marlene Sanders.
[edit] Works
- The Nine: Inside the Secret World of the Supreme Court (2007)
- Too Close to Call: The Thirty-Six-Day Battle to Decide the 2000 Election (2001)
- A Vast Conspiracy: The Real Story of the Sex Scandal That Nearly Brought Down a President (2000)
- The Run of His Life: The People v. O.J. Simpson (1997)
- Opening Arguments: A Young Lawyer's First Case—United States v. Oliver North (1992)
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