Doug Letter | |
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Born | Douglas Neal Letter September 27, 1953 |
Education |
Columbia University (
BA) University of California, Berkeley ( JD) |
Douglas Neal Letter is an American attorney. He was general counsel to the United States House of Representatives from 2018 to 2022. [1] [2] He is now chief legal officer for Brady: United Against Gun Violence. [2] From 1978 to 2018, he was an attorney in the United States Department of Justice, ultimately serving as director of the appellate staff for the Civil Division. [3] [1] [4] [5] [6]
During a 2014 hearing before a federal court in which Letter was representing the United States Government in a lawsuit brought by the Electronic Frontier Foundation, he made headlines after providing erroneous information to judges regarding the legality of National Security Letters. [7] [5] [6] The Justice Department later issued a written apology to the court for Letter's statement. [5]
Letter received his undergraduate degree from Columbia University in 1975 and his J.D. from UC Berkeley School of Law in 1978. [8]
Doug Letter | |
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Born | Douglas Neal Letter September 27, 1953 |
Education |
Columbia University (
BA) University of California, Berkeley ( JD) |
Douglas Neal Letter is an American attorney. He was general counsel to the United States House of Representatives from 2018 to 2022. [1] [2] He is now chief legal officer for Brady: United Against Gun Violence. [2] From 1978 to 2018, he was an attorney in the United States Department of Justice, ultimately serving as director of the appellate staff for the Civil Division. [3] [1] [4] [5] [6]
During a 2014 hearing before a federal court in which Letter was representing the United States Government in a lawsuit brought by the Electronic Frontier Foundation, he made headlines after providing erroneous information to judges regarding the legality of National Security Letters. [7] [5] [6] The Justice Department later issued a written apology to the court for Letter's statement. [5]
Letter received his undergraduate degree from Columbia University in 1975 and his J.D. from UC Berkeley School of Law in 1978. [8]