About the authors

• Author: Elizabeth Smith/Mark Thompson
• Pages: 16-16

ABOUT THE AUTHORS

Mark Thompson graduated from Columbia Law School in 1983 and has been

a journalist and writer ever since. He worked as an assistant editor at the

Smithsonian Institute's Wilson Quarterly for several years before moving to Los

Angeles to take a job at the Los Angeles Daily Journal, where he covered topics

ranging from international law to the U.S. Supreme Court, wrote judicial profiles

and edited the opinion section. Mr. Thompson left the Daily Journal in 1997 to

work full time as a freelance writer and to complete a book, American Character, a

biography of the eccentric journalist Charles Fletcher Lummis, which was pub-

lished in the spring of 2001. His articles have appeared in many newspapers and

magazines including the Atlantic Monthly, New Republic, Wall Street Journal,

Economist and Far Eastern Economic Review.

Elizabeth Smith graduated from the University of Texas Law School. She has

since clerked for a California judge, taught as an adjunct professor of criminal jus-

tice, and profiled numerous business executives for two Texas newspapers.

Shortly after obtaining her second graduate degree in the 1990s, she spent 18

months working in-house for Paul, Hastings, Janofsky & Walker, helping the firm

prepare the two-volume treatise Employment Discrimination Law for publication by

BNA. She has been designated an “honor roll” contributor to that treatise. For over

ten years, Ms. Smith also provided political science and legal research to West

Publishing’s Texas Politics series authored by Richard H. Kraemer and Charldean

Newell. She later served as sole editor of a judge's text on arbitration and sharp-

ened her editing skills while working for newspapers in both Texas and California.

In addition to her New York Judge Reviews and Court Directory writing tasks, Ms.

Smith edits a variety of materials on a consulting basis and contributes freelance

articles to a number of prestigious print and online publications, including The

Wall Street Journal.

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