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'''Marc Elliot Kasowitz''' (born June 28, 1952) is an American trial lawyer and partner of the New York City-based law firm Kasowitz Benson Torres.
Kasowitz was born in New Haven, Connecticut and is of Polish decent. He attended the Hopkins Grammar School in New Haven. He graduated from [[Yale College]] ''cum laude'' with a B.A. in American history. In 1977, he earned a [[Juris Doctor]] from [[Cornell University]], where he was an editor of the ''Cornell Law Review''.
Upon graduation, Kasowitz passed the New York bar exam and joined the Mayer, Brown & Platt law firm. In 1993 Kasowitz, 18 lawyers and two clients left Mayer Brown to establish the [[Kasowitz Benson Torres]] law firm.<ref name="bizjournals_Kasowitz_bio_2017">{{cite news |url=http://www.bizjournals.com/newyork/news/2017/05/24/what-to-know-about-trump-lawyer-marc-kasowitz.html |title=What you need to know about Trump lawyer Marc Kasowitz |date=May 24, 2017 |access-date=June 8, 2017 |work=Biz Journals |first=Anthony |last=Noto}}</ref><ref name="American Lawyer">{{cite news|url=http://www.kasowitz.com/files/FastRise-NoWhitePage.pdf|last=Amon|first=Elizabeth|title=Fast Rise to the Top|date=August 2004|work=[[The American Lawyer]]|publisher=[[Incisive Media]]|pages=11|accessdate=January 17, 2010}}</ref>
Kasowitz has represented [[Bill O'Reilly]] and [[Donald Trump]]. Additionally, Kasowitz represents a company run by a Russian oligarch [[Oleg Deripaska]], who is a very close associate of [[Vladimir Putin]] and who employed Trump campaign manager [[Paul Manafort]] for several years.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.cnn.com/2017/05/24/politics/trump-attorney-kasowitz/index.html|title=Trump lawyer in Russia probes has Russian ties of his own|first=Curt|last=Devine|publisher=CNN|date=May 24, 2017|accessdate=June 8, 2017}}</ref>
==References==
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==External links==
*[http://www.kasowitz.com/marc-e-kasowitz/ Profile at kasowitz.com]
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Kasowitz was born in New Haven, Connecticut and is of Polish decent. He attended the Hopkins Grammar School in New Haven. He graduated from [[Yale College]] ''cum laude'' with a B.A. in American history. In 1977, he earned a [[Juris Doctor]] from [[Cornell University]], where he was an editor of the ''Cornell Law Review''.
Upon graduation, Kasowitz passed the New York bar exam and joined the Mayer, Brown & Platt law firm. In 1993 Kasowitz, 18 lawyers and two clients left Mayer Brown to establish the [[Kasowitz Benson Torres]] law firm.<ref name="bizjournals_Kasowitz_bio_2017">{{cite news |url=http://www.bizjournals.com/newyork/news/2017/05/24/what-to-know-about-trump-lawyer-marc-kasowitz.html |title=What you need to know about Trump lawyer Marc Kasowitz |date=May 24, 2017 |access-date=June 8, 2017 |work=Biz Journals |first=Anthony |last=Noto}}</ref><ref name="American Lawyer">{{cite news|url=http://www.kasowitz.com/files/FastRise-NoWhitePage.pdf|last=Amon|first=Elizabeth|title=Fast Rise to the Top|date=August 2004|work=[[The American Lawyer]]|publisher=[[Incisive Media]]|pages=11|accessdate=January 17, 2010}}</ref>
Kasowitz has represented [[Bill O'Reilly]] and [[Donald Trump]]. Additionally, Kasowitz represents a company run by a Russian oligarch [[Oleg Deripaska]], who is a very close associate of [[Vladimir Putin]] and who employed Trump campaign manager [[Paul Manafort]] for several years.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.cnn.com/2017/05/24/politics/trump-attorney-kasowitz/index.html|title=Trump lawyer in Russia probes has Russian ties of his own|first=Curt|last=Devine|publisher=CNN|date=May 24, 2017|accessdate=June 8, 2017}}</ref>
==References==
<references/>
==External links==
*[http://www.kasowitz.com/marc-e-kasowitz/ Profile at kasowitz.com]
{{DEFAULTSORT:Kasowitz, Marc}}
[[Category:Donald Trump]]
[[Category:Lawyers]]