Jeffrey Toobin
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Jeffrey Toobin (born 1960) is a lawyer, author, and senior legal analyst for 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, graduating magna cum laude and earning 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
He currently is a staff writer at The New Yorker magazine, former legal analyst for ABC News, and the author of four books:
- Too Close to Call: The Thirty-Six-Day Battle to Decide the 2000 Election (published in 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)
His next book, The Nine: Inside the Secret World of the Supreme Court, will be published by Doubleday in the fall of 2007.
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.
Earlier in his career, he served as an Assistant U.S. Attorney in Brooklyn, New York, as well as an associate counsel to Independent Counsel Lawrence E. Walsh during the Iran-Contra affair and Oliver North's criminal trial.
[edit] Family
Toobin lives with his wife, Amy McIntosh, and two children in New York City.
