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Toobin wrote a book, Opening Arguments: A Young Lawyer's First Case: United States v.

He moved to serve as an Assistant United States Attorney for the Eastern District of New York in Brooklyn. Next he served as an associate counsel for Independent Counsel Lawrence Walsh during the Iran–Contra affair and Oliver North's criminal trial. After passing the bar exam, he worked as a law clerk to U.S. Toobin began freelancing for The New Republic while a law student. Career Toobin promoting his book The Nine: Inside the Secret World of the Supreme Court at the 2007 Texas Book Festival He attended Harvard Law School, where classmates included Elena Kagan, and he served as an editor of the Harvard Law Review. Toobin graduated magna cum laude with a Bachelor of Arts degree in American history and literature and was awarded a Harry S. While attending Harvard College for undergraduate studies, he covered sports for The Harvard Crimson. Toobin attended Columbia Grammar & Preparatory School. His younger brother, Mark, born in 1967 with Down syndrome, has lived apart from the family. Toobin was born to a Jewish-American family in New York City in 1960, a son of Marlene Sanders, former ABC News and CBS News correspondent, and Jerome Toobin, a news broadcasting producer. The latter two were adapted for television as seasons of FX's American Crime Story, with the Simpson case premiering in 2016. Simpson murder case, and the Clinton–Lewinsky scandal. Toobin has written several books, including accounts of the 1970s Patty Hearst kidnapping and her time with the SLA, the O.

He continued to serve as legal analyst for CNN for two years. He was fired that fall for masturbating on-camera during a Zoom video conference call with co-workers. He wrote for The New Yorker from 1993 to 2020. He moved from government and the practice of law into full-time writing during the 1990s, when he published his first books. ĭuring the Iran–Contra affair, Toobin served as an associate counsel on this investigation in the Department of Justice. He announced his exit from CNN in August 2022 after being caught masturbating on an employee Zoom call. Jeffrey Ross Toobin ( / ˈ t uː b ɪ n/ born May 21, 1960) is an American lawyer, author, blogger, and longtime legal analyst for CNN.