Cameron Stracher is a writer, law professor, and media lawyer. He is a graduate of

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and teaches at

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. After graduating from Harvard, he worked for one year at the law firm of

Covington & Burling Covington & Burling LLP is an American multinational law firm. Headquartered in Washington, D.C., the firm advises clients on transactional, litigation, regulatory, and public policy matters. In 2021, Vault.com ranked Covington & Burling as ...

in Washington, D.C., and then moved to

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, where he received a

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in creative writing and taught legal writing at the

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. Moving to New York City, he then spent five years at CBS, where he specialized in

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litigation and other legal issues facing the media. Until August 2004, he was a partner at the law firm of Levine Sullivan Koch & Schulz in

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. He later became general counsel of

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In 2011 he published a novel entitled ''The Water Wars''.

References

* * * *Stracher, Cameron (2011) ''The Water Wars'', William Morrow & Co., Illinois ;Specific

External links

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