Prior to coming to the Center for Constitutional Rights he practiced at Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP, where he litigated cases in federal and state courts across a broad docket. He is a graduate of the Fordham University School of Law, cum laude, and a former law clerk to Judge Damon J. Keith of the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit. He has published law review articles on constitutional law in the Nebraska Law Review and the University of San Francisco Law Review, among others.