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NYT Legal Reporter Takes Readers’ Questions
Posted May 13, 2008, 12:07 pm CDT
By Debra Cassens Weiss
The New York Times reporter who will cover the U.S. Supreme Court for the newspaper is answering questions from readers this week.
The Times’ blurb on Liptak covers his background in the law and media. He joined the Times as a copyboy in 1984 after he graduated from Yale with an English degree. “In addition to clerical work and fetching coffee, he assisted the reporter M.A. Farber in covering the trial of a libel suit brought by Gen. William Westmoreland against CBS,” the Times says.
He went on to Yale Law School, became a litigation associate handling First Amendment matters for Cahill Gordon & Reindel, and then worked for the Times’ legal department. While working as a lawyer, he wrote some book reviews for the newspaper and wrote articles for other publications. He became a reporter for the Times in 2002.
Send your questions to askthetimes@nytimes.com.
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