Subject: Proposed Paper Topic
From: Brian Gilmore <[email-masked]>
To: [email-masked], [email-masked]
Date: Mon, 24 Feb 2014 09:30:20 -0500

Dear Professors,

Although I've had some difficulty zeroing in on a topic, I think I'd like
to write about a topic Judge Leon touched on in last week's class: the
Brendan Sullivan effect.

Specifically, I'd describe his role in the Iran Contra hearings, the ways
in which investigators later responded to cabin the role of witnesses'
attorneys, and consider whether an attorney could ever again have even
close to that effect on an investigation.  (I suspect not, given that we're
now 30 years on.)  My concern is that there won't be enough here for 20
pages, but perhaps I'm wrong about that.

My interest in the topic is twofold--first, because I'll be going into
private practice, if I'm going to have any contact with an investigation,
it's likely to be in the role of representing a witness; second, because
I'll be at Williams & Connolly, I have a personal interest in the story and
in the firm's institutional history.  (As a disclaimer, though, I have no
interest in writing a hagiography.)

See you in class,
Brian