Holds a Juris Doctorate from Georgetown University Law Center graduating magna cum laude in 1998.
Is a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania.
He passed the New York State bar exam in 2000, but the Committee of Bar Examiners refused to certify him on its moral fitness test, citing ethics concerns related to The New Republic affair.
[Referring to his biographical film Shattered Glass (2003)] it was my own personal horror film It was a film about the worst things I did, the things I did I'm most ashamed of.