Floyd Abrams

Floyd Abrams born July 9 1936 is an American attorney at Cahill Gordon Reindel He is an expert on constitutional law and has argued 13 cases before the Supreme Court of the United States Abrams represented The New York Times in 1971 during the Pentagon Papers case Judith Miller in the CIA leak grand jury investigation Standard Poors and Lorillard Tobacco Company He argued for Citizens United during the 2010 Supreme Court case In 2008 he played the pivotal role of Judge Hall in the movie Nothing but the Truth 2008 American film He is the William J Brennan Jr visiting Professor at the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism Abrams joined Cahill Gordon Reindel in 1963 and became a partner in 1970 In August 2021 Abrams was named to the advisory board of American facial recognition company Clearview AI as of counsel