Abbe David Lowell is one of the nation's leading white-collar defense and trial lawyers. His practice focuses on litigation, special investigations and regulatory enforcement. In his extensive career, Mr. Lowell has represented numerous high-profile clients and provided counsel in matters of national and international importance. He has successfully tried numerous complex civil and criminal cases throughout the United States, and has briefed and argued dozens of appeals before federal and state appeals courts and before the Supreme Court of the United States. Mr. Lowell has been counsel to the US House of Representatives twice, most recently when he was Chief Minority Counsel during impeachment proceedings against President Clinton and before that as special ethics counsel to the House Committee of Standards of Official Conduct (Ethics Committee). From 1994 to 1996, he was appointed as Special Counselor to the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights in the investigation and prosecution of human rights violations, war crimes and other human rights projects in Rwanda and the former Yugoslavia. Mr. Lowell has also served at the US Department of Justice from 1977 to 1981 as a Special Assistant US Attorney, Special Assistant to the Deputy Attorney General and Special Assistant to the Attorney General. 1977 - J.D., Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar, Editor, Columbia Law Review, Columbia Law School 1974 - B.A., magna cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa, Columbia College