Jan. 25: Judge John Gleeson Will Give the 2016 Frank J. Guarini Government Lecture

The Honorable John Gleeson will be the featured speaker at this year’s Guarini Government Lecture presented by PILC. The lecture and subsequent reception will be held in Greenberg Lounge from 6:00 to 7:30 pm on January 25^th.

For over twenty years Judge Gleeson has presided as a District Judge in the Eastern District of New York. His judicial career has been marked by groundbreaking decisions in cases involving mandatory minimum sentences, plea negotiation practices, white-collar criminal settlements, and the expungement of criminal records. Judge Gleeson was instrumental in developing alternative to incarceration programs in the EDNY that were among the first of their kind in federal courts, and he has worked assiduously to promote replication of those models in jurisdictions across the country.

Prior to his appointment to the bench by President Bill Clinton in 1994, Judge Gleeson had a distinguished career in the United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of New York. He is best known for securing the conviction of the “Teflon Don,” the late mafia boss John Gotti, who was famously heard on surveillance tapes laughing and disparaging AUSA Gleeson’s intelligence shortly before his conviction in 1992.  In addition to being a trial legend, Judge Gleeson served as Chief of Appeals, Chief of Special Prosecutions, Chief of Organized Crime, and Chief of the Criminal Division, the position he occupied when he was appointed to the bench.

Prior to joining the government as a prosecutor, he worked at Cravath, Swaine & Moore LLP as a litigation associate. Though a graduate of the University of Virginia School of Law, he is an integral part of the NYU Law School family, having served as an adjunct professor here since 1995. Judge Gleeson recently announced that he will soon be stepping down from the bench.  Please join us for this opportunity to hear Judge Gleeson speak as he prepares to enter the next phase of his illustrious career.

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