David Lat

I'm a lawyer turned blogger/writer. You can check out my website at davidlat.typepad.com.

I'm the editor in chief of Above the Law ("ATL"), an online legal tabloid that receives over 3.5 million page views a month, which the Washington Post has described as "a must-read legal blog." ATL was voted Best Law Blog in the 2007 Weblog Awards and included in the ABA Journal's Blawg 100 -- "the 100 best Web sites by lawyers, for lawyers, as chosen by the editors of the ABA Journal."

I'm also a columnist for the New York Observer, where I write a semimonthly column on lawyers and law firms. In addition, my writing has appeared in the New York Times and Washingtonian magazine, among other publications.

Before launching Above the Law, I served as editor of Wonkette, the widely read politics blog published by Gawker Media. I first entered blogging in June 2004, when I launched Underneath Their Robes ("UTR"), a cheeky and irreverent gossip blog about federal judges. I wrote UTR under a pseudonym ("Article III Groupie"), while still working as a federal prosecutor. In November 2005, I outed myself as the blog's author, in an interview with Jeffrey Toobin of the New Yorker.

Prior to becoming a full-time writer/blogger, I worked as a federal prosecutor in New Jersey and a litigation associate at the New York law firm of Wachtell Lipton. I also served as a law clerk to Judge Diarmuid O'Scannlain, of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit.

I'm a graduate of Regis High School (1992), Harvard College (1996), and Yale Law School (1999). I currently live in Washington, D.C.

For more about me, please check out my Wikipedia entry. Thanks for visiting!