Education
Princeton University. Harvard Law School.
Princeton University. Harvard Law School.
Born in Cranston, Rhode Island, he received his Bachelor of Arts from Princeton University in 1943 and his law degree from Harvard University in 1949. He was in private practice from 1949 to 1957, when he joined the staff of the Lawyers Company-operative Publishing Company in Rochester, New York, editing the Lawyer"s Edition of the United States Reports and the United States Supreme Court Digest. He was assistant reporter of decisions for the court from 1973 to 1979 and oversaw the transition from hot lead to computer typesetting.
He also wrote a manual of style and composition for judicial writing.