Background
Berger, Joel was born on April 16, 1944 in Brooklyn. Son of M. Marvin and Lillian Berger.
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Joel Berger, American Civil rights
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lawyer Recipient Karl Menninger award Fortune Society, 1986. Member commission on local candidates, commission on New York City charter revision, Citizens Union, New York City; Member Association of Bar of City of New York (civil rights committee), National Council on Crime and Delinquency, Correctional Association New York.
Education
Columbia University (Bachelor of Arts, 1965). University of Chicago (Juris Doctor, 1968).
Career
Worked at Leventhal & Slade (New York, NY) specializing in Civil and Criminal Litigation. Trials and Appeals.
Admitted to the bar, 1968, New York. 1970, United States. District Court, Eastern, Southern, Northern and Western Districts of New York, and United States.
Court of Appeals, 2nd Circuit. 1972, United States. Supreme Court. 1977, United States. Court of Appeals, 5th Circuit.
198 1, United States. Court of Appeals, 11th Circuit. 1982, United States. Court of Appeals, 6th Circuit.
1983, United States. Court of Appeals, District of Columbia Circuit. 1985, United States. District Court, 8th Circuit. Adjunct Clinical Professor, New York University School of Law, 1977.
Senior Litigator, Executive Staff, New York City Law Department, 1988-1996. Assistant Counsel, NAACP Legal Defense and Education Fund, Inc., 1977-1988. Attorney, The Legal Aid Society, 1968-1977.
Member, Joint Committee on Local Rules Revision, Eastern and Southern District Advisory Groups. Member: The Association of the Bar of the City of New York (Chair, Committee on Government Ethics, 1995. Member, Committee on Professional and Judicial Ethics, 1990-1994).
New York State Bar Association (Member, Committee on Professional Ethics, 1994). Leventhal & Slade specializes in civil and criminal litigation in federal and state courts.
Membership
Member, Joint Committee on Local Rules Revision, Eastern and Southern District Advisory Groups. Member: The Association of the Bar of the City of New York (Chair, Committee on Government Ethics, 1995. Member, Committee on Professional and Judicial Ethics, 1990-1994).
New York State Bar Association (Member, Committee on Professional Ethics, 1994).
Connections
1 child, Max Andrew.
