Michael R. Dreeben (born 1954) is a former Deputy Solicitor General who was in charge of the

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criminal docket before the

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. He is recognized as an expert in U.S. criminal law. Dreeben had a lengthy career in the Solicitor General's office, starting as an Assistant in 1988, then promoted to Deputy in 1995. In his first case before the Supreme Court, ''United States v. Halper'' (1989), he was opposed by

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, who later became Chief Justice. In 2016 Dreeben became only the seventh person to argue 100 cases before the Supreme Court. In 2017, he was enlisted by special counsel Robert Mueller to assist the investigation of Russia's interventions into the 2016 U.S. presidential election. Dreeben is a Distinguished Lecturer at

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, and has previously taught at Harvard Law School and

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. In 2020 he became a partner at O'Melveny & Myers.

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List of cases argued by Michael Dreeben
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