Jeffrey Toobin

Jeffrey Toobin at the 2007 Texas Book Festival.

Jeffrey Ross Toobin^[1] (born May 21, 1960 in New York City, New York^[2]) is lawyer, author, and legal analyst for CNN and The New Yorker^[3].

[edit] Education

Toobin attended Columbia Grammar and Preparatory School, in New York City, and subsequently 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.

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.

The Nine: Inside the Secret World of the Supreme Court (2007) winner of the J. Anthony Lukas Book Prize
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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