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Daniel R. White (born 1953, Atlanta, Georgia) is an American attorney and author. His first book, ''The Official Lawyer’s Handbook,''〔D. Robert White, ''The Official Lawyer’s Handbook'' (1983). New York: Simon & Schuster. ISBN 0-671-53137-9. White wrote this book under the pen name D. Robert White. He has joked that he did this to maintain "plausible deniability."〕 is a satire of the legal profession was a bestseller in the early 1980s.〔Ken Ringle, "Wit of Habeas Corpus," Style p.2, ''The Washington Post,'' (Aug. 30, 1989).〕 The success of the ''Handbook,'' which ranked #1 on ''The Washington Post'' best seller list and presumably drew on White's personal experience practicing law with the Washington, D.C., law firm of Hogan & Hartson,〔Hogan & Hartson was an international law firm and, for a while, the home of John Roberts, who later became Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court Hogan & Hartson subsequently merged with the firm of Lovells to produce Hogan Lovells, a merger that became effective as of May 1, 2010.〕 led to television appearances, speaking engagements, and other books, as a result of which ''The American Lawyer'' magazine declared White “The Official Lawyer’s Comedian.”〔Diane Goldner, "The Official Lawyer’s Comedian," ''The American Lawyer'', p. 106 (April 1984).〕 Calling the ''Handbook'' his "vehicle of liberation from the practice of law," White left the private practice of law in 1983. He now makes his living in various word-related ways, including as a writer, editor, corporate entertainer, legal comedian, legal writing instructor, and college essay consultant. ==Personal== White graduated from The Westminster Schools,〔(The Westminster Schools )〕 a co-educational college preparatory school in Atlanta, Georgia. He obtained a B.A. in Government from Harvard College, graduating magna cum laude in 1975. After college, he traveled to Seoul, Korea, where he wrote and edited travel articles for the Korea National Tourism Corporation (later renamed the Korea Tourism Organization), an agency of the Republic of Korea.〔''See'', ''e.g''., Daniel White, "A Young American Visits Pan Mun Jom," ''Korea Calling'', Vol. XV, No. 5 (May 1976); Daniel White, "Korea Not America," ''The Korea Herald'' (February 8, 1976). Diane Goldner, "The Official Lawyer’s Comedian," ''The American Lawyer'', p. 107 (April 1984).〕 The following year he attended Columbia Law School, where he obtained a J.D. in 1979. He served as Articles Editor of the ''Columbia Law Review'',〔''See'' masthead, Columbia Law Review (1978-79 academic year).〕 which published his first legal writing, "''Pacifica Foundation v. FCC'': ‘Filthy Words,’ the First Amendment, and the Broadcast Media,"〔White, D., 78 ''Columbia Law Review'', No. 1 (Jan. 1978), p. 164.〕 during White’s second year. That article, which discussed a ruling by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit on comedian George Carlin’s famous "Seven Dirty Words" monologue,〔''See'' ''Pacifica Foundation v. FCC'', 556 F.2d 9 (D.C. Cir. 1977).〕 was cited by the U.S. Supreme Court in a related ruling.〔''Consolidated Edison Co. v. Public Serv. Comm’n''., 447 U.S. 530, fn. 2 (Mr. Justice Stevens, concurring) (1980).〕 At Columbia, White was a Harlan Fiske Stone scholar and the recipient of the Archie O. Dawson Advocacy Award, which provided clerkships for the study of advocacy at the three levels of the federal judiciary, including a period in the chambers of U.S. Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall. White served as law clerk to U.S. District Court judge Thomas A. Flannery,〔Judge Flannery died in 2007. See Patricia Sullivan, "Obituaries," Washington Post (Sept. 27, 2007).〕 and then joined Hogan & Hartson, where he spent roughly 3 years. Upon leaving Hogan & Hartson, he spent 4 years to promoting his first book, commencing his career as a public speaker and corporate entertainer, and attempting without success to become a screenwriter. For several years White practiced law sporadically with the firm of Ross, Dixon & Masback.〔Originally a spinoff of Hogan & Hartson, Ross, Dixon & Masback passed through multiple incarnations before eventually merging with the Atlanta-based firm of Troutman Sanders.〕 Thereafter, for just over a year, White worked as a legal business consultant for the accounting and consulting firm Arthur Andersen. There he consulted primarily for corporate law departments, where he performed such tasks as a substantive and stylistic overhaul of Exxon's "Guidelines for Use of Outside Counsel." 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Daniel R. White」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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