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Reuben Camper Cahn is  a courtroom advocate of exceptional experience and ability. A Fellow of the American College of Trial Lawyers, he has tried over 100 cases to jury verdict and argued twice before the Supreme Court of the United States, in addition to numerous arguments before the Ninth and Eleventh Circuits. His practice focuses on complex commercial litigation, white collar criminal defense, and appellate litigation.

Reuben clerked for the Honorable Lawrence W. Pierce of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit and began his career at Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz and Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison, where he worked in securities litigation and international arbitration.

Driven by his desire to be a trial lawyer and to serve the public, Reuben left corporate litigation to become a public defender, first in Florida and then in the federal courts. He rose quickly to become Chief Assistant Federal Public Defender for the Southern District of Florida and was later recruited to serve as Executive Director of Federal Defenders of San Diego, where he managed an office of 140 employees and a budget of $26 million while continuing to try cases and argue appeals. During this time, he argued twice before the Supreme Court, served as learned counsel in the high-profile case of United States v. Loughner, and led a team that obtained the release of two clients held at Guantanamo Bay Naval Base.

Reuben also established himself as a leader in the Federal Defender community, serving for ten years as one of its two representatives to the Judicial Conference of the United States and receiving appointment by the Chief Justice to the Conference's special committee to review the Criminal Justice Act. He has defended matters involving tax, public corruption, fraud, money laundering, RICO, and Continuing Criminal Enterprise charges, among others, and has served as lead counsel in federal capital cases—including one resulting in complete acquittal and another ending in a unanimous life verdict. He has been appointed counsel learned in the law by federal judges in over 15 capital trial cases.

Orange County Bar Association

Federal Bar Association

San Diego Appellate Inn of Court (Honorary Master)

Screening committee of the United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit for selection of the Central District of California’s Federal Public Defender (FPD-CDCA)

Federal Judiciary Advisory Committee for the Central District of California, Member

Yale Law School, J.D.

Stanford University, B.A.