I’m a lawyer based in Washington, D.C. and a senior writer for Politico Magazine, where I write a column and features about national legal issues.
I was previously a contributing writer for the magazine, as well as a columnist and contributing editor for New York magazine, where I wrote a column and features on legal affairs. I’ve also written for a bunch of other places — including The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, The Financial Times, The New York Review of Books, The New Republic, The Atlantic, TIME, USA Today, WIRED, Slate, The American Prospect, and the Columbia Journalism Review. I’ve done legal commentary for various TV, print, and podcast/radio outlets, as well as other types of speaking engagements.
Before entering the media industry in early 2020, I was a federal prosecutor who specialized in financial fraud and white-collar crime. Prior to that, I worked at a law firm in New York City doing standard law firm things in both commercial litigation and white-collar corporate defense. I clerked for a judge in the Southern District of New York, and I graduated from Columbia University with a law degree and a B.A.