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Phillip Margolin grew up in New York City and Levittown, New York. In 1965, he graduated from The American University in Washington, D.C. with a Bachelor's Degree in Government. From 1965 to 1967, he volunteered with the Peace Corps in Liberia, West Africa. In 1970, he graduated from New York University School of Law, the last two years which he financed by teaching junior high school in the South Bronx during the day.

His first job after law school was a clerkship with Herbert M. Schwab, the Chief Judge of the Oregon Court of Appeals. From 1972 until 1996, he was in private practice specializing in criminal defense at the trial and appellate levels. As an appellate attorney he appeared before the United States Supreme Court, the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, the Oregon Supreme Court and the Oregon Court of Appeals. As a trial attorney, he handled all sorts of criminal cases in state and federal court and has represented approximately 30 people charged with homicide, including several who have faced the death penalty. Margolin was the first Oregon attorney to use the Battered Women's Syndrome to defend a battered woman accused of murdering her spouse.

Since 1996, Margolin has been writing full-time. All of his novels have been best sellers. His novels have been made into an HBO movie (The Last Innocent Man) as well as a mini-series (Gone But Not Forgotten). He has been recognized by the Mystery Writers of America, been nominated twice for the Oregon Book Award and published by more than 25 foreign publishers. His short stories and non-fiction articles have been included in magazines and law journals and his short story, The Jailhouse Lawyer, was selected for the anthology 1999, The Best American Mystery Stories.

	After dark Margolin, Phillip. Search for other formats (CD, DVD, etc.)
	The associate Margolin, Phillip. Search for other formats (CD, DVD, etc.)
	The burning man Margolin, Phillip. Search for other formats (CD, DVD, etc.)
	Executive privilege Margolin, Phillip. When private detective Dana Cutler is hired by an attorney with powerful political connections, the assignment seems simple enough: follow a pretty college student named Charlotte Walsh and report on where she goes and whom she sees. But then the unexpected happens. One night, Cutler follows Walsh to a secret meeting with Christopher Farrington, the president of the United States. The following morning, Walsh's dead body shows up and Cutler has to run for her life. In Oregon, Brad Miller, a junior associate in a huge law firm is working on the appeal of a convicted serial killer. Clarence Little, now on death row, claims he was framed for the murder of a teenager who, at the time of her death, worked for the then governor, Christopher Farrington. Suddenly, a small-time private eye and a fledgling lawyer find themselves in possession of evidence that suggests that someone in the White House is a murderer. Their only problem? Staying alive long enough to prove it.--From publisher description. Search for other formats (CD, DVD, etc.)
	Fugitive : a novel Margolin, Phillip. Defense attorney Amanda Jaffe, the heroine of Wild justice and Proof Positive, becomes entrapped in a case of international intrigue and murder that leads her deep into the past ... and into the crosshairs of a killer. Search for other formats (CD, DVD, etc.)
	Gone, but not forgotten Margolin, Phillip. Search for other formats (CD, DVD, etc.)
	Heartstone Margolin, Phillip. Search for other formats (CD, DVD, etc.)
	The last innocent man Margolin, Phillip. Search for other formats (CD, DVD, etc.)
	Lost Lake Margolin, Phillip. Search for other formats (CD, DVD, etc.)
	Proof positive Margolin, Phillip. Search for other formats (CD, DVD, etc.)
	Sleeping beauty Margolin, Phillip. Search for other formats (CD, DVD, etc.)
	Ties that bind Margolin, Phillip. Search for other formats (CD, DVD, etc.)
	The undertaker's widow Margolin, Phillip. Search for other formats (CD, DVD, etc.)
	Wild justice Margolin, Phillip. Search for other formats (CD, DVD, etc.)