The son of a Presbyterian minister, Philip K. Howard was raised in eastern Kentucky. Summers working in the tobacco fields convinced him of the value of education, and he went on to earn degrees from Yale University and the University of Virginia School of Law. From 1967-1969, he did research at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, and from 1970-1979 at the Rand Institute and Fund for the City of New York. In 1974, he joined the law firm of Sullivan & Cromwell, and in 1983 he became a founding partner of Howard, Darby & Levin. After twenty years spent as a corporate lawyer and civic leader in New York City, he was prompted to write The Death of Common Sense: How Law Is Suffocating America, which was on the New York Times best-seller list for over six months. The book has been adopted for use by both major political parties and has helped define the debate on governmental and legal reform.
Interview with Jerry Leeman: Today we bring you a story about a handful of fishermen rallying against a billion-dollar green industrial project, shady foreign corporations, and our own federal and state government. All are conspiring to generate a cash cow for...
By Greg Yates The criminal case People v Gosselin took place in a little red house structure known as the “Town of Highland Justice Court” located in Sullivan County, New York. This little red structure is also known as the Barryville Town Hall, where court is...
No person decided to spite Mother Teresa. It was the law. And what it required offends common sense.