Federal Criminal Practice: A Second Circuit Handbook

Mr. Mehler is a private practitioner in New York City specializing in criminal and civil litigation. During the Clinton Administration he served as a Deputy Assistant Attorney General at the United States Department of Justice in Washington. Before that, he supervised the prosecution of public corruption and government-related fraud cases as Chief of Special Prosecutions (Public Integrity) at the United States Attorney's Office for the Eastern District of New York. He also worked as an American government resident legal advisor to the Government of Romania, and taught as an Adjunct Associate Professor at Fordham University School of Law. Mr. Mehler opened his own law practice in 2000.

Mr. Mehler was born in Denver and completed his undergraduate studies at the University of Colorado. He received his law degree from New York University. He was a law clerk to a judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 10th Circuit, and began his legal career as an associate at Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom in New York City. He has written for a variety of periodicals including, The American Lawyer and The New York Times. He is also the co-author of Mehler, Gleeson and James, Federal Criminal Practice: A Second Circuit Handbook (Lexis-Nexis/ Matthew Bender 2010), now in its 11th edition.

John Gleeson is a U.S. District Judge for the Eastern District of New York. He formerly served as Chief of Appeals, Chief of Special Prosecutions, Chief of Organized Crime and Chief of the Criminal Division at the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Eastern District of New York. During his tenure as a federal prosecutor, he received the Attorney General's Distinguished Service Award for his role as lead counsel in the trial of United States v. John Gotti et al. He received his B.A. from Georgetown University and his J.D. from the University of Virginia School of Law. He served as a law clerk to the Honorable Boyce Martin, Jr., of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit and worked as an associate at Cravath, Swaine & Moore in New York City. He is also an Adjunct Professor at New York University School of Law.

David C. James is Deputy Chief of the Appeals Division at the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Eastern District of New York. He received his B.A. from Princeton University and his J.D. from Columbia University School of Law where he was an editor of the law review. He served as a law clerk to the Honorable Leonard B. Sand of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York and worked as an associate at Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison in New York City.

Alicyn Cooley is Deputy Chief of the Business and Securities Fraud at the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Eastern District of New York. She received both her B.A. and J.D. degrees from Yale University. She clerked for the Honorable Barrington D. Parker, Jr. of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, and the Honorable John Gleeson of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York, and worked as an associate at Davis, Polk and Wardell, LLP, in New York City.