WATERGATE
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Earl Silbert

As the chief prosecutor in Washington during Watergate, Earl Silbert brought charges against many of the president's men. A Harvard law graduate, Silbert worked as a Justice Department lawyer and a federal prosecutor before taking the principal U.S. attorney job in Washington in 1974. He left the prosecutor's office in 1979 for private practice. Silbert served as the president of the American College of Trial Lawyers for 2000-2001. He is now a partner at the D.C. office of DLA Piper, an international law firm, where his area of expertise is white collar crime.
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