Jeffrey Toobin
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Toobin at the 2012 Texas Book Festival
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| Born |
Jeffrey Ross Toobin May 21, 1960 New York City, New York |
| Education | Harvard University |
| Occupation | Legal analyst, Commentator |
| Notable credit(s) |
The New Yorker (1993–) CNN Senior Legal Analyst (2002–) |
| Spouse(s) | Amy Bennett McIntosh (1986-present) |
| Children | 3 |
Jeffrey Ross Toobin (born May 21, 1960) is an American lawyer, author, and legal analyst for CNN and The New Yorker.
He has written several books, including one on the O.J. Simpson murder case. It was adapted as a series, The People v. O.J. Simpson: American Crime Story, and aired in 2016 as the first season of FX American Crime Story. It won numerous Emmy awards.
Toobin was born in New York City in 1960, the son of Marlene Sanders, former ABC News and CBS News correspondent, and Jerome Toobin, a news broadcasting producer . His mother's family were secular Jews.
Toobin was educated at Columbia Grammar School, which later changed its name to Columbia Grammar and Preparatory School, a private preparatory school in New York City. Toobin graduated from Harvard College. At Harvard, he covered sports for The Harvard Crimson, where his column was titled "Inner Toobin." In 1982, he graduated magna cum laude with a Bachelor of Arts degree in classics, and earned a Truman Scholarship. In 1986, he graduated from Harvard Law School magna cum laude with a J.D.; he had been an editor of the Harvard Law Review.
Toobin began freelancing for The New Republic while a law student. After passing the bar, he worked as a law clerk to a federal judge and then as an associate counsel to Independent Counsel Lawrence Edward Walsh during the Iran-Contra affair and Oliver North's criminal trial. He next served as an Assistant U.S. Attorney in Brooklyn. According to journalist Michael Isikoff in 2013, Toobin was caught while working for Walsh for “having absconded with large loads of classified and grand-jury related documents" from Walsh's office. Toobin disputed the assertion that he improperly removed documents.
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