Daniel C. Richman is an American attorney. He is the Paul J. Kellner Professor of Law at

Columbia Law School Columbia Law School (Columbia Law or CLS) is the law school of Columbia University, a private Ivy League university in New York City. Columbia Law is widely regarded as one of the most prestigious law schools in the world and has always ranked i ...

Education

Richman received a bachelor's degree from

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in 1980 and a J.D. from

Yale Law School Yale Law School (Yale Law or YLS) is the law school of Yale University, a Private university, private research university in New Haven, Connecticut. It was established in 1824 and has been ranked as the best law school in the United States by ''U ...

in 1984.

Career

Richman served as a federal prosecutor in the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Southern District of New York. He was the Brendan Moore Professor in Advocacy at

Fordham Law School Fordham University School of Law is the law school of Fordham University. The school is located in Manhattan in New York City, and is one of eight ABA-approved law schools in that city. In 2013, 91% of the law school's first-time test tak ...

before taking his current position at Columbia. He was a

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for the

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(FBI). Following the June 8, 2017 public hearing at the

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, Richman confirmed to reporters that he was the person former

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had instructed to reveal the contents of Comey's memos detailing conversation with President

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. Richman and Comey are longtime friends, and Richman's faculty page describes him as an advisor to Comey.

References

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