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David Benjamin Lat (born June 19, 1975) is an American lawyer, author, and legal commentator. Lat is the founder and managing editor of Above the Law, a website about law firms and the legal profession. Before blogging, Lat attended Harvard College and Yale Law School. After law school, he worked as a law clerk for a federal appeals judge (Diarmuid F. O'Scannlain), an associate at Wachtell Lipton Rosen & Katz, and an Assistant U.S. Attorney for the appeals division in the District of New Jersey. Lat first began blogging anonymously for the judicial gossip blog "Underneath Their Robes," until he revealed his identity in a November 2005 interview with Jeffrey Toobin of ''The New Yorker''. Shortly thereafter, Lat launched Above the Law, a website featuring news about law firms and the legal profession and legal gossip. In December 2014, Lat published his debut novel, ''Supreme Ambitions''. ==Early life & education== David Lat is the child of Filipino doctors.〔 He grew up in Bergenfield, New Jersey, and Saddle River, New Jersey. While living in Saddle River, his neighbors included former President Richard M. Nixon. On Halloween, he would get a Halloween card and a handshake from the former president.〔 Lat attended Regis High School in Manhattan, New York.〔 Lat won the Villiger Tournament for extemporaneous speaking in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.〔〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=National Circuit Tournament Champions )〕 He attended Harvard College in Cambridge, Massachusetts, where he studied English,〔 wrote dozens of columns for the Harvard Crimson,〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=David B. Lat )〕 and was a member of the Harvard Speech and Parliamentary Debate Society.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=High School Students Flock to Annual Debate Tournament )〕 He earned a Bachelor of Arts ''Magna Cum Laude'' and was elected to Phi Beta Kappa, graduating in 1996.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Legally Speaking Interview with David Lat )〕 He attended Yale Law School, where he was vice president of the Federalist Society.〔 Lat was a member of the ''Yale Law Journal'', where he was a Book Reviews Editor.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=The Yale Law Journal – Masthead: Volume 108 )〕 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「David Lat」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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