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...National Law Review’s runner-up for Lawyer of the Year, Fisher is a First Amendment and criminal-defense specialist at the Seattle-based law firm of Davis Wright Tremaine (DWT). He recently became partner after just five years there...
...both cases, Fisher’s arguments transformed key aspects of criminal litigation,” says HLS Professor William J. Stuntz. “I don’t know of another example, in the past 30 years, of a lawyer having such an impact in two areas of law in a single year. The word brilliant is overused these days, but Fisher is truly a brilliant lawyer...
...case, Crawford vs. Washington, involved a criminal trial in which a videotape was used as evidence against the defendant, Crawford. But because Crawford’s lawyer was not able to cross-examine the videotaped witness, they took the case to the Washington State Supreme Court. There they argued that the videotaped evidence violated Crawford’s right, under the Sixth Amendment, to confront witnesses against him, but the court ruled that the evidence was reliable...
Fisher read the court’s opinion and then asked Crawford’s lawyer whether he could help appeal the case to the U.S. Supreme Court...
...boasts several prominent names on its 11-member advisory board—including James M. Fallows ’70, a former Crimson president who also served as a speech writer to Jimmy Carter, and Steven Brill, a media critic and founder of The American Lawyer...