Neil MacBride, Date of Birth, Place of Birth
TweetNeil MacBride
American lawyer
Date of Birth: 14-Oct-1965
Place of Birth: Schenectady, New York, United States
Profession: lawyer
Nationality: United States
Zodiac Sign: Libra 
About Neil MacBride
- Neil H.
- MacBride (born October 14, 1965) is a Virginia lawyer who previously served as the United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia.
- The U.S.
- Senate unanimously confirmed MacBride's nomination as U.S.
- Attorney on September 15, 2009, and he took office three days later.
- He left office on September 13, 2013.
- Prior to his appointment by President Barack Obama, MacBride served as an Associate Deputy Attorney General at the Department of Justice.MacBride formerly served as Vice President, Anti-Piracy and General Counsel, of the Business Software Alliance, where he oversaw global anti-piracy enforcement and copyright policy.
- Prior to that, he served as Staff Director and Chief Counsel to Senator Joseph R.
- Biden, Jr.
- (D-Del.) on the Senate Judiciary Committee from 2001-2005.
- From 1996-2001, MacBride was an Assistant United States Attorney in the Criminal Division of the United States Attorney's Office for the District of Columbia.
- Before his stint in public service, MacBride practiced law with the Washington, D.C.
- law firm of Verner, Liipfert, Bernhard, McPherson and Hand, Chartered.
- He also served as a judicial law clerk to U.S.
- District Court Judge Henry Coke Morgan, Jr.
- in the Eastern District of Virginia. He is a magna cum laude graduate of Houghton College (N.Y.), where he received in B.A.
- in History and the Humanities, and received his J.D.
- from the University of Virginia School of Law.
- He is a Barrister with the Edward Bennett Williams Inn of Court and serves on the Board of Advisors of the Center on Law & Security at New York University. He was the lead prosecutor in the Megaupload controversy.
- He is also responsible for filing motions in the Grand Jury investigation of WikiLeaks.
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