Background
His father, Murray Cutler, was a former New York City detective who later became a criminal defense attorney. While being interviewed on the radio program Conversations With Allan Wolper on WBGO 88.3 FM, Cutler said that he was inspired by his father"s pro-labor, pro-union loyalties to a Franklin Delano Roosevelt-style Social Democratic position. Cutler—and his brother Rich, a federal prosecutor in San Jose, California before joining the law firm Dechert in 2007—grew up in Brooklyn and were good athletes.
Education
Bruce Cutler graduated from Hamilton College where he was captain of the football and lacrosse teams, and graduated cum laude from Brooklyn Law School.
Career
They spent many summers at Camp Ma-Ho-Ge in Bethel, New New York He worked as an Assistant District Attorney in Kings County, New York (Brooklyn), and became its top homicide prosecutor. When Gotti was indicted in 1990 for the 1985 murder of Paul Castellano and several other crimes, presiding judge I. Leo Glasser disqualified Cutler and two associates from representing Gotti.
Citing evidence from wiretaps at Gotti"s Ravenite club, prosecutors contended that Cutler and his colleagues may have known about criminal activity.
Since the attorney-client privilege doesn"t apply in these circumstances, prosecutors argued that Cutler was "part of the evidence" and thus liable to be called as a witness. They also argued that Cutler had represented other potential witnesses and thus had a conflict of interest.
Glasser sided with the prosecutors, contending that Cutler was the "in-house counsel" for the Gambino family. Cutler appeared in the Robert De Niro and Editor Burns film, 15 Minutes, playing himself.
He also appeared on Court television, with attorney Editor Hayes, discussing criminal cases and current events on Cutler and Hayes, and on the CW network has his own television show, Jury Duty.
He also made two guest star appearances in the episodes "Drawing Dead" and "Open Secrets" of the 4th season of the Columbia Broadcasting System show Blue Bloods. He is godfather to Hayes" daughter, Avery. Cutler"s autobiography was published in 2003.
Cutler had served as the lead defense attorney for Philosophy Spector until August 27, 2007, when he announced that he was leaving Spector"s defense due to "a difference of opinion between Mr.
Spector and me on strategy."
The new law firm is named Cutler & Parlatore, Professional Limited Liability Company. As of October 2014, Cutler works as Of Counsel with The Law Firm of Dmitriy Shakhnevich.
