Harry Litman (of Counsel)
Harry graduated in 1986 from the University of California School of Law (Boalt Hall), where he was editor-in-chief of the California Law Review. Before law school and while a law student, Harry worked as a sportswriter for Associated Press. Following law school, Harry served as a law clerk to Judge Abner Mikva of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit; Justice Thurgood Marshall of the United States Supreme Court; and Justice Anthony Kennedy of the United States Supreme Court.

After working in private practice in Pittsburgh, Harry in 1990 became an Assistant United States Attorney in the Northern District of California (San Francisco). From 1993 until 1998, Harry served as a Deputy Assistant Attorney General in the Department of Justice, with responsibility for issues of constitutional law and prosecutorial policy. He was simultaneously a Special Assistant United States Attorney litigating federal cases in the Eastern District of Virginia.

From 1998 to 2001, following nomination by the President and unanimous confirmation by the Senate, Harry served as the United States Attorney for the Western District of Pennsylvania. As United States Attorney, he launched and directed a number of law-enforcement initiatives, while overseeing a 20 percent increase in federal prosecutions and personally litigating cases in both the district court and the court of appeals. In July 2000, Harry was nominated by the President to a federal judgeship on the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania.

Harry has been an adjunct professor at the University of California School of Law (Boalt Hall), the Georgetown Law Center and the University of Pittsburgh Law School. He also has been an instructor at the Department of Justice Advocacy Institute.

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