Floyd Abrams
Partner, Cahill Gordon & Reindel
Floyd Abrams is a partner in the New York law firm of Cahill Gordon & Reindel and is the William J. Brennan Jr. Visiting Professor of First Amendment Law at the Columbia Graduate School of Journalism. He has argued frequently before the U.S. Supreme Court in significant First Amendment cases and was cocounsel to the New York Times in the Pentagon Papers case. Most recently, he argued for the New York Times and Judith Miller in the Central Intelligence Agency leak grand jury investigation. The following is from July 20, 2005, testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee during hearings on…
