We're delighted to welcome Marie Gryphon, a senior fellow with the Manhattan Institute's Center for Legal Policy, as a new contributor to Point of Law. As an attorney in private practice, Marie 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.