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• Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft LLP, New York Office

• Counsel for the Constitution, Senate Judiciary Committee

• New York
• U.S. Supreme Court

• University of Pennsylvania Law School, J.D., 1997
• Columbia University, B.A., History & Political Science, Magna Cum Laude, 1994

Mr. Scaturro specializes in commercial litigation and political law, with a focus on securities and regulatory issues; matters in connection with government institutions and political campaigns; and issues of constitutional law.

He has represented numerous public companies and clients in the financial services industry in matters relating to proprietary trading, lending, broker-dealer, and advisory services, including shareholder class action and derivative suits and securities- and commodities-related litigation.  He has also handled commercial contract and insurance matters.

In addition to his commercial practice, Mr. Scaturro has been active in elective politics for over 20 years, including as a candidate for Congress, and has experience both inside and outside all three branches of the federal government.  He has extensive background in constitutional law, including past service as Counsel for the Constitution on the Senate Judiciary Committee, where he advised the U.S. Senate on constitutional issues and nominations to federal courts and to the U.S. Department of Justice.  He has also taught courses on constitutional law and the legislative process as a Visiting Professor at Hofstra Law School.

Mr. Scaturro has published a number of books and articles in his areas of specialty, including The Supreme Court's Retreat from Reconstruction (2000), an exploration of 13th, 14th, and 15th - Amendment jurisprudence; and Public Companies (2002), a book he co-authored on how to meet the obligations of public companies in the wake of the corporate scandals of the last decade.  He is also published in the field of history and politics, where his publications include President Grant Reconsidered (1998), a reassessment of U.S. Grant's presidency, and a collaboration with Senator Arlen Specter on Never Give In:  Battling Cancer in the Senate (2008), the senator's memoir on his struggle with Hodgkin's lymphoma.