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    Office of General Counsel

    Main Office Attorneys

     Michael J. Fischer
    Executive Deputy General Counsel

    Education
    • Columbia University School of Law, JD
    • Princeton University, BA
    Current Practice
    • Executive Deputy General Counsel, Strategy

    Prior Experience

    • Chief Counsel  and Executive Deputy Attorney General, Pennsylvania Office of Attorney General
    • Senior Counsel, US Senate Committee on the Judiciary
    • Assistant United States Attorney, US Attorney's Office for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania
    • Associate, Kellogg, Hansen, Todd, Figel & Frederick, PLLC
    Admissions
    • Pennsylvania
    • US Supreme Court
    • US Courts of Appeals for the First, Second, Third, Ninth, Tenth and the District of Columbia Circuits
    • US District Courts for the Eastern, Middle & Western Districts of Pennsylvania and the District of Colorado

    Clerkships

     

    • Honorable Edward R. Becker, United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit
    • Honorable Michael Chertoff, United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit