Jeffrey Toobin

Jeffrey Ross Toobincite web|url= http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9A0DE1DD103EF932A35755C0A960948260 |title=J.R. Toobin Weds Amy B. McIntosh - New York Times |date=1986-06-01 |accessdate=2008-07-11 ] (born May 21, 1960 in New York City, New York [cite web|url=http://www.mediabistro.com/articles/cache/a9909.asp |title=So What Do You Do, Jeffrey Toobin, Author? |date=2007-10-10 |accessdate=2008-07-11 ] ) is a lawyer, author, television legal analyst, and senior base ball analyst. He covers legal stories for both "The New Yorker" and CNN.

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."

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 political 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.

Family

Toobin is the son of pioneer woman journalist Marlene Sanders and Jerome Toobin, a producer. Toobin lives with his wife, Amy McIntosh, and two children, Adam (b. 1993) and Ellen (b. 1991) in New York City.

Works

*"" (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)

References

External links

* [http://www.jeffreytoobin.com/ Official website]
* [http://www.cnn.com/CNN/anchors_reporters/toobin.jeffrey.html CNN staff biography]
* [http://www.chicagopublicradio.org/Content.aspx?audioID=16082 October 2007 Author Series: Jeffrey Toobin in Conversation with Lori Lightfoot.]