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Richard Katskee was affiliated with Mayer Brown between the summer of 1995, when he joined the Firm as a summer associate, and June 2004, when he left to become the Assistant Legal Director of Americans United for Separation of Church and State. He received his A.B. with highest distinction and high honors from the University of Michigan, his A.M. in political science from Harvard University (where he was a National Science Foundation Graduate Fellow), and his J.D. from the Yale Law School (where he was an Articles Editor on the Yale Law Journal). After law school, he clerked for Judge Stephen Reinhardt of the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit and for Judge Guido Calabresi of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. Before joining the Firm, Richard served as a Eugene P. Beard Graduate Fellow in Ethics at the Harvard University Program in Ethics and the Professions; he has also taught professional and political ethics at Harvard's John F. Kennedy School of Government. Richard continues to work with the group occasionally in cases dealing with punitive damages, class certification, the dormant Commerce Clause, insurance bad faith, and federal preemption.