Biography

Legal Committee Member, NORML

Education

• Undergraduate: Univ. of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, B.A., 1982
• Law School: Univ. of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, J.D., 1985

Bar Information

• 4th Cir. E. Mid., & W. Dists. of NC, US Supreme Ct.

Biography

AV rated by Martindale-HubbellBoard Certified Criminal Trial, The Florida BarListed, Top 100 Trial Lawyers, ATLA (2007-present)Listed, Nation's Top One Percent, National Association of Distinguished CounselPast Juris Consult, La Chaine des Rotisseurs des Etat-UnisRecipient, "Pro Bono" Award, Brevard Co. Legal Aid (2000-02)Recipient, Law and Leading Attorneys (1996-Present)Past Director, East Coast Zoological SocietyPast Director, YMCA

Education

• Undergraduate: University of Florida , , 1974
• Law School: Univ. of Florida, Holland Coll. of Law, 1977

Bar Information

• Mid. Dist. FL, So. Dist. FL, U.S. Supreme Court

Biography

Biography

Editor-in-Chief, "Wake Forest Law Review",(1985-86)Past President, Knoxville Bar Assn.Past Chair, TBA Criminal Justice SectionListed, Best Lawyers in America (2005 - Present), Mid-South Super Lawyers Top 100 in Tennessee (2006-Present), Certified Criminal Trial SpecialistFellow, American College of Trial Lawyers, 2013Faculty Member, Tenn.Crim. Defense CollegeSpeaker, ABA, NACDL, TACDL, TBA, KBA

Education

• Undergraduate: University of Tennessee, BS Business, 1982
• Law School: Wake Forest, JD, 1986

Bar Information

• US Supreme Ct., 5th, 6th and 7th Cirs., E. Dist. TN,, M. Dist. TN

Biography

Education

• Undergraduate: Grand Valley State University, BS, 2008
• Law School: UALR William H. Bowen School of Law, JD, 2013

Biography

Marissa Elkins is from western Massachusetts and focuses her practice on criminal law, civil rights litigation, and appellate advocacy. She began her legal career as a public defender and is a member of NACDL’s Indigent Defense and Mental Health Committees.

Bar Information

• 2007, MA; U.S. District Court Mass.

Biography

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Alan Ellis is a  nationally recounized federal sentencing, prison and. post-conviction, appeal and 2255 motion attorney representing federal criminal defendants and inmates throughout the United States. and asbroad. He endeavors to obtain for his clients the lowest possible sentence and if it is one of incarceration, the best facility possible with release at the earliest opportunity. Alan , a Past President of the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers (NACDL) , a former Law Professor in both San Francisco and Shanghai, China, a Past Present of the ACLU of Cntral Pennsylvania  and  a Fulbright award recipient, has defended thousands of cases over more than 50 years. He has authored more than 175 articles and books, including the Federal Prison Guidebook:  Prison, Sentencing and Post-Conviction Remedies,  is a frequent speaker and has more than 85 lectures, presentations and speaking engagements to his credit, including interviewing over 40 Federal judges for a series of articles on Law 360 and for Federal Lawyer Magazine on What Federal Judges Want at Sentencing. Federal Lawyer has described  him as "one of this country's pre-eminent criminal defense lawyers." The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit has called Alan "a nationally recognized expert in federal criminal sentencing". 

 

Education

• Undergraduate: Penn State B.A. 1964
• Law School: Villanova Law School, JD, 1967