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Memorandum of law in Opposition to a Motion for Preliminary Injunction

This is an excerpt from the argument section of a memo submitted and argued in Supreme Court against an employer's motion for a temporary injunction enforce a covenant not to compete in an employment contract.  As co-counsel, I argued this motion and we were successful.

Law Review Note, The Supreme Court's Continued Struggle to Define Crime: Ring v Arizona and Harris v US

Case Comment, Sattazahn v Pennsylvania: In the Spirit of Apprendi?

I wrote these two pieces in law school while a member and associate editor of the New York Law School Law Review.  Both relate to the question, as framed by Justice Thomas, of "What constitutes a crime?"  Perhaps the most famous case in the line is Apprendi v. New Jersey.  

More than anything else, I attribute my love for legal writing and doctrine to grappling with this particular issue and give credit to my criminal law professor for presenting and teaching it with contagious enthusiasm.

Confronting Uncertainty in Law School and Practice

This article is an slightly modified excerpt from a larger work titled “Imposing Black and White on a World of Gray: Learning to Think like a Lawyer.” This aticle was published in the New York Bar Association's Young Lawyer's Section online periodical "In Touch" for which I served as editor in chief.