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Since 1977, Mr. Cynkar has been
an active member of the Washington, D.C., legal community
as a trial and appellate lawyer, and as a member of the Senate
Judiciary Committee Staff, having broad experience in complex
and innovative regulatory, administrative law, and constitutional
matters on behalf of individual and institutional clients,
including insurance companies, financial institutions, utilities,
health care providers, state governments, and federal programs.
These matters have involved diverse subjects, ranging from
property rights and takings issues, ratemaking and energy
regulation, healthcare regulation and related Medicare and
Medicaid issues, and the regulation of financial institutions,
through environmental, toxic tort, and serious personal injury
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Mr. Cynkar graduated magna cum laude from Princeton University in 1974. He
earned his J.D. degree from New York University School of Law in 1977 where
he served on the Law Review.
In private practice, before joining
Egan, Fitzpatrick, Malsch & Lawrence,
he was a founding partner of Cooper & Kirk, and was a
partner at Shaw Pittman, both in Washington, D.C., working
on a variety of constitutional and regulatory litigation.
Prior to that work in the private sector, Mr. Cynkar served
as an Assistant United States Attorney in the Eastern District
of Virginia (Criminal Division), as a Special Assistant to
U.S. Attorney General Edwin Meese, and as a Deputy Assistant
Attorney General in the Justice Department’s Civil
Division, where he was in charge of the over 100 litigators
of the Federal Programs Branch and the Office of Consumer
Litigation. In that capacity, Mr. Cynkar was the primary
lawyer responsible for defending in the federal district
courts the programs and regulatory initiatives of nearly
all of the federal departments and agencies. This litigation
ran the gamut of constitutional and statutory issues that
could be raised by federal action. Mr. Cynkar personally
argued many of the most sensitive or controversial of these
cases. In the more political realm, Mr. Cynkar served on
the Senate Judiciary Committee staffs of Sen. Bob Dole, and
then of Sen. Paul Laxalt, as Minority Counsel to the Subcommittee
on Improvements in Judicial Machinery and General Counsel
to the Subcommittee on Regulatory Reform, respectively.
Mr. Cynkar is admitted to practice in the District of Columbia,
Virginia, and Illinois, and in the U.S. Supreme Court, and
the Second, Third, Fourth, Fifth, Sixth, and Federal Circuits.
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