I'm a Washington, D.C. lawyer and a graduate of the University of California-Berkeley School of Law (J.D., 1976) and the University of Wisconsin-Madison (B.A., With Honors, Political Science, 1971). My government, public interest, and non-profit work has included service as counsel to the U.S. House Judiciary Subcommittee on Crime; legislative assistant to Congressman John Conyers (D.-Mich.); director of the American Bar Association's Civil Rights Section, the Ballot Project, and the Soros Foundation’s East-West Management Institute; president of the Public Education Center; program analyst at the U.S. Department of Justice; and legal assistant at the Urban Law Institute and for Congresswoman Elizabeth Holtzman (D.-N.Y.) during the Nixon impeachment hearings. My civil law practice includes litigation, contracts, tenants' associations, entertainment law, employment discrimination, election law, civil & international human rights, business, and real property. I represent clients before the D.C. Superior Court, Court of Appeals and several administrative law tribunals, and I've also done appellate work before the U.S. Courts of Appeal for the Federal and 4th Circuits.