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= Ross Garber =

Ross Garber (born April 3, 1967) is an American lawyer and legal analyst currently affiliated with CNN. He also teaches a class on Political Investigations and Impeachments at Tulane Law School. The New York Times called him “arguably...the nation’s leading impeachment lawyers.”

Education
Garber graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in English from the University of Connecticut in 1989. He went on to obtain his law degree graduating with honors in 1992 from the University of Connecticut Law School.

Career
Garber was a law clerk for United States District Judge Robert N. Chatigny.

Garber was a partner with Shipman & Goodwin LLP in Washington, D.C. and Hartford, CT, where he chaired the Government Investigations and White Collar Defense Group.

Garber has represented four U.S. governors in impeachment proceedings: Governor John G. Rowland of Connecticut, Governor Mark Sanford of South Carolina, Governor Robert Bentley of Alabama, and Governor Eric Greitens of Missouri. In each instance he represented the governor in his official capacity, as well as the Office of the Governor.

In 2005, Garber convinced the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit that public officials and government lawyers have an attorney-client privilege in grand jury investigations. In its holding the Second Circuit rejected contrary holdings of the U.S. Courts of Appeals for the Seventh, Eighth and District of Columbia Circuits.

Garber is a contributing author of the book Ethical Standards in the Public Sector. Garber has been published by both The Los Angeles Times and The Washington Post.

Garber has done training in crisis management for the National Governors' Association, Congressional staff, and the U.S. Conference of Mayors. He has also conducted training for the Associated Press and the Investigative Reporters and Editors (IRE) on covering investigations.

In 2018 Garber was hired by CNN to be an on-air Legal Analyst.

Garber teaches a class at Tulane Law School on Political Investigations and Impeachments.