Paul Adam Engelmayer

American federal judge (born 1961)

Paul Adam Engelmayer (born 1961) is an American lawyer and jurist serving as a United States district judge of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York . He was appointed in 2011 by President Barack Obama .

Early life and education

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Engelmayer was born in 1961 in New York City . He graduated from Harvard University in 1983 with a Bachelor of Arts , _summa cum laude _. After spending a year as a staff reporter for _The Wall Street Journal _, he attended Harvard Law School , where he was the treasurer of the _Harvard Law Review _. He graduated in 1987 with a Juris Doctor , magna cum laude.

After law school, Engelmayer was a law clerk to Chief Judge Patricia Wald of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia from 1987 to 1988, and then for Justice Thurgood Marshall of the U.S. Supreme Court from 1988 to 1989.

Career

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From 1989 to 1994, Engelmayer served as a federal prosecutor for the United States Attorney's Office for the Southern District of New York . He served as an assistant United States attorney from 1989 to 1994, and as the Deputy Chief Appellate Attorney in 1994.

From 1994 to 1996, Engelmayer served as an assistant to the United States Solicitor General Drew S. Days III in Washington D.C. In that role, he argued four cases before the U.S. Supreme Court . As of taking the bench, he had argued over 20 appellate cases.

In 1996, Engelmayer returned to the United States Attorney's Office in Manhattan, serving as the Chief of the Major Crimes Unit. He led the prosecution of Lawrence X. Cusack III, who created and sold $7 million worth of forged documents claiming that President John F. Kennedy paid hush money to conceal a supposed affair with Marilyn Monroe . Engelmayer also received the U.S. Attorney's Director's Award for Superior Performance in 1998 in connection with his prosecution of William F. Duker, a New York City lawyer who defrauded the FDIC and the Resolution Trust Corporation of $1.4 million in overbillings.

Engelmayer and Lewis Liman , a future colleague on the Southern District of New York bench, also prosecuted three defendants for a scheme to extort $40 million from the actor Bill Cosby by using threats to publicly claim that one of them was Cosby's illegitimate daughter.

In 2000, Engelmayer joined the law firm Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr in Manhattan as a partner . He was the partner in charge of the New York office from 2005 until he was appointed as a federal judge in 2011.

Engelmayer is an elected member of the American Law Institute . He has lectured or taught at numerous law schools and professional conferences. He is a trustee of the Harvard Law Review. In a 2001 Wall Street Journal op-ed, he discussed the challenges prosecutors investigating President Bill Clinton 's pardons of Marc Rich and others faced. In a keynote speech in 2015, he called on Congress to pass an insider trading law.

Federal judicial service

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On February 2, 2011, President Barack Obama nominated Engelmayer to fill the judicial seat vacated by Judge Gerard E. Lynch , who was elevated to the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit . The American Bar Association rated Engelmayer as Unanimously Well Qualified. On March 16, Engelmayer attended a hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee . On March 31, Senator Charles Grassley placed Engelmayer's nomination on hold, along with two other nominations. Grassley later lifted the holds, and the Senate Judiciary Committee referred Engelmayer's nomination to the full Senate. On July 26, the Senate confirmed Engelmayer by a 98–0 vote. He received his commission on July 27, 2011.

Notable civil cases and rulings

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