John Harmon (attorney)

John M. Harmon (born July 16, 1944) is an American lawyer who served as United States Assistant Attorney General for the Office of Legal Counsel during the Jimmy Carter administration.

John M. Harmon
United States Assistant Attorney General for the Office of Legal Counsel
In office
May 5, 1977  1981
PresidentJimmy Carter
Preceded byAntonin Scalia
Succeeded byTheodore Olson
Personal details
Born (1944-07-16) July 16, 1944
Statesville, North Carolina
NationalityAmerican
Alma materUniversity of North Carolina (B.A.)
Duke University (J.D.)
ProfessionLawyer

Biography

Harmon was born in Statesville, North Carolina. From 1962 to 1966 he attended the University of North Carolina receiving his B.A. and his J.D. degree from Duke University School of Law in 1969.

Until 1970 he worked as a law clerk for Judge Griffin Bell in the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit and Eleventh Circuit. From 1970 to 1971 he was a law clerk in the office of Associate Justice Hugo Black in the United States Supreme Court, after that until 1972 in the office of Chief Justice Warren E. Burger. For the next four years Harmon practiced law with Coudert Frères and served as U.S. Representative to Court of Arbitration of International Chamber of Commerce in Paris, France.

In 1977 he was assigned United States Assistant Attorney General by Jimmy Carter. He worked in the Office of Legal Counsel until 1981. Afterwards Harmon entered the law firm Graves, Dougherty, Hearon, Moody & Garwood in Austin, Texas where he practices Business Litigation and international Litigation. [1] [2] [3]

Awards

Harmon is listed in Best Lawyers in America 2001–2010.[4]
Since 1986 he is Honorary French Counsul.[5]

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gollark: Can't wait for the `file` command to take several seconds of heavy GPU load.
gollark: You would still want to have information about the geese though.
gollark: I think a useful component of AGI would be being able to efficiently offload subtasks to specialised algorithms instead of just doing them inefficiently in neural networks, but I have no idea if this is very practical or anyone's doing it.
gollark: There are tons of non-learning algorithms which are good for logical reasoning. The fuzzier stuff which humans do easily seems to be what's harder to implement.

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