John worked closely with the Council's first Chairman, Bob Keeshan (a.k.a. He was put in charge of the Council of Governing Boards, which recruited and organized business leaders who served as trustees of 115 private colleges and universities to lobby Congress and the New York State Legislature to support higher education. in Government and History from Skidmore College in Saratoga Springs, New York.Īfter college, John was a registered lobbyist with the Commission on Independent Colleges and Universities (cIcu) in Albany, New York. John graduated from the Northfield Mount Hermon School in Massachusetts and studied as a Rotary Exchange Student in the Philippines before earning a B.A. overturning death sentences in Alabama, Ohio, and Virginia.winning an injunction against the City of New York prohibiting police officers from discriminating against demonstrators based on the content of their speech.winning a labor arbitration that awarded New York City police officers higher compensation increases than firefighters for the first time in more than 100 years.winning a Trafficking Victims Protection Act class action on behalf of 200 nurses from the Philippines against the largest nursing home group in the country.winning an $80 million settlement in a race discrimination class action against Sodexho Marriott.representing the Government of the United Kingdom as amicus curiae in numerous death penalty cases involving UK nationals, including in the U.S.Supreme Court on behalf of the Governments of India and Mongolia John has a reputation for getting excellent results in difficult cases.