About the authors

• Author: Mark Thompson/Elizabeth Smith
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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 published 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. Since graduating from the University of Texas Law School, Ms. Smith has clerked

for a California judge, taught as an adjunct professor of criminal justice, and profiled numerous busi-

ness 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 10 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

sharpened her editing skills while working for newspapers in both Texas and California. In addition

to her current California Judge Reviews writing tasks, Ms. Smith edits a variety of materials on a con-

sulting basis and contributes freelance articles to a number of prestigious print and online publica-

tions, including The Wall Street Journal.

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