WASHINGTON, DC, August 26, 2020 /24-7PressRelease/ -- Marquis Who's Who, the world's premier publisher of biographical profiles, is proud to present Edwin E. Huddleson with the Albert Nelson Marquis Lifetime Achievement Award. An accomplished listee, Mr. Huddleson celebrates many years' experience in his professional network, and has been noted for achievements, leadership qualities, and the credentials and successes he has accrued in his field. As in all Marquis Who's Who biographical volumes, individuals profiled are selected on the basis of current reference value. Factors such as position, noteworthy accomplishments, visibility, and prominence in a field are all taken into account during the selection process.
After graduating from Stanford and the University of Chicago Law School, where he won the Casper Platt Award and was one of four Comment Editors on the law review, he served as a judicial law clerk for judge Charles M. Merrill on the US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. Thereafter, he litigated a wide variety of nationally significant cases for the US Department of Justice in the federal courts of appeals and the U.S. Supreme Court. See www.edwinhuddleson.com (listing some cases that were written up in the Washington Post and US Law Week.) These included a few cases where he wrote the government's briefs for submission to the US Supreme Court, but declined to sign them because of disagreement with the government's position (specifically, a case seeking to overturn the constitutional Due Process rulings in Goldberg v. Kelley, and a case seeking to overturn the successful Establishment Clause challenge to compulsory chapel attendance at the military academies (West Point, Annapolis, Colorado Springs).
With over thirty years thereafter in private practice, Mr. Huddleson is admitted to the bar in California, the District of Columbia, Maryland, and New York. He has handled cases before the U.S. Supreme Court, all thirteen U.S. Courts of Appeals, several US. District Courts, administrative agencies and state courts, as well as state legislatures in every State (see TRAC Vehicle Leasing, 33 J.Equip. Lease Fin. (Fall 2015) (describing a successful 50-State legislation project)). The clients he has represented in private practice include large and small corporations; nonprofits, cabinet officers (former US Attorney General Edward H. Levi, former Secretary of Defense Robert S. McNamara); Talal bin Abdulaziz al Saud (the Red Prince of Saudi Arabia); Columbia University; the Public Service Commission of the District of Columbia; Silicon Valley start-up companies; and high tech cell phone, software, and biotech companies; as well as pro bono work for consumers, tenants, and school teachers, convicted felons, the Innocence Projects and Centurion Ministries; the Sierra Club; and supporting the U.S. House of Representatives rule giving Eleanor Holmes Norton and other delegates the right to vote in the Committee of the Whole of the US House of Representatives. Torts, contracts, Superfund/RCRA cleanup, administrative law issues, federal tax issues, IP licensing for artificial blood from chemicals, patents, utility rate cases, government contract cases, and Nuclear Regulatory Commission work have all been part of his law practice. He also served as an administrative law judge for the Public Service Commission implementing federal energy conversation programs within the District of Columbia.
Within the Bar, Mr. Huddleson served as Chairman of the Court Rules Committee updating the rules of the local C.A.D.C.; a member of the procedures committee of the US Ct App for the D.C. Circuit; and a member (and twice co-chair) of the Administrative Law Section (voted "Section of the Year" in 2015), originating both the "Administrative Law Annual Review" and the series of "Harold Leventhal Talks" for the DC Bar presented by academics and judges of the US Supreme Court and the US Court of Appeals for DC Circuit.
Over many years, he has spoken about equipment leasing, environmental law, administrative law and commercial law topics at the ABA, ALI-ABA, the DC Bar, UCC Institute, and other forums. Throughout his time in private practice, he has written articles on legal topics including pieces for the Washington Post ("Confidentiality for the Editorial Process") and the Wall Street Journal ("Restoring Separation of Powers"), as well as articles for law reviews and journals, including "Chevron Under Siege," "Appellate Advocacy," "TRAC Vehicle Leasing," "Leasing Is Distinctive!", "Old Wine in New Bottles: UCC Article 2A Leasing," chapters/supplements to treatises and numerous Business Lawyer articles on Equipment Leasing, "Environmental Law Protections for Lenders," and "Waiver of Miranda Rights."
Each year, Mr. Huddleson sponsors a "coffee mess"/lunch honoring faculty members who teach at the University of Chicago Law School. He has been included in Who's Who in America since 2000, and is a member of the American Bar Association, the Fellows of the American Bar Foundation, the American College of Commercial Lawyers, the Sierra Club, and the American Law Institute. In his spare time, he enjoys traveling, sports, and spending time with family.
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