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Peter R. Zeidenberg is an American trial lawyer. He has been an Assistant District Attorney in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, an Assistant US Attorney in the District of Columbia and at the Department of Justice Public Integrity Section. On August 13, 2007, DLA Piper announced that he had become a partner at their Washington, DC office.


Education

Zeidenberg obtained a BA from the
University of Wisconsin–Madison The University of Wisconsin–Madison (University of Wisconsin, Wisconsin, UW, UW–Madison, or simply Madison) is a public land-grant research university in Madison, Wisconsin, United States. It was founded in 1848 when Wisconsin achieved st ...
and then attended Boston College Law School where he graduated in 1985.


Major cases

Zeidenberg, was part of Special Counsel Patrick Fitzgerald's prosecution team in the CIA leak grand jury investigation which eventually resulted in the indictment and conviction of
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in '' United States v. Libby''. He was also the lead trial counsel in the case of ''United States vs. David H. Safavian''. While he was successful in that case, his tactics were largely repudiated by the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia, which reversed Safavian's conviction. *''United States v. Hsu, District of Columbia'' * Sherri Chen


References

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