Bill Otis is a graduate of the University of North Carolina and Stanford

Law School. For almost 20 years he was the head of the appellate

division of the US Attorney's Office for the Eastern District of

Virginia. In that capacity, he argued more than 100 cases before the

US Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit.

He resigned from the Department of Justice in 1999, when it declined to

seek the admission of an unMirandized but voluntary statement by a bank

robbery defendant. The next year, he became in informal policy advisor

on criminal justice issues to the campaign of then-Governor George Bush.

Recently he was appointed Counselor to the head of the Drug Enforcement

Administration. Previously he had served Mr. Bush's father as Special

White House Counsel in 1992.

Mr. Otis is also an Adjunct Professor of Law at George Mason Law School

in Arlington, Virginia, and is speaking today in that capacity. He has

spoken at Harvard, Yale, Virginia many other law schools around the

country, and has made frequent television appearances on such programs

as the O'Reilly Factor, ABC News and Sixty Minutes.