Marie Gryphon is a Senior Fellow with the Center for Legal Policy at the Manhattan Institute. As an attorney in private practice, she worked on ERISA, securities, class action, commercial contract, legal malpractice, and constitutional law cases. She has also been a Legal and Policy Analyst with the Cato Institute, working on issues related to education policy. Her articles have appeared in Business Week, The Washington Post, The Dallas Morning News, The Star-Ledger, Forbes, FoxNews.com, National Review Online, and The Orange County Register. She holds a J.D. from the University of Washington School of Law and is a Ph.D. candidate in public policy at Harvard University.