Arnold M. Weiner is an American

United States

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 lawyer

Lawyer

A lawyer, according to Black's Law Dictionary, is "a person learned in the law; as an attorney, counsel or solicitor; a person who is practicing law." Law is the system of rules of conduct established by the sovereign government of a society to correct wrongs, maintain the stability of political...

 in Maryland

Maryland

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 who represented former Baltimore Mayor Sheila Dixon

Sheila Dixon

Sheila Ann Dixon served as the forty-eighth Mayor of Baltimore, Maryland. When former Mayor Martin O'Malley was sworn in as Governor on January 17, 2007, Dixon, a Democrat, became mayor and served out the remaining year of O'Malley's term. In November 2007, she was elected mayor...

, former Maryland Governor Marvin Mandel

Marvin Mandel

Marvin Mandel , a member of the United States Democratic Party, was the 56th Governor of Maryland in the United States from January 7, 1969, to January 17, 1979. He was Maryland's first, and, to date, only Jewish governor.- Early life :...

 and former United States Representative Edward Garmatz

Edward Garmatz

Edward Alexander Garmatz , a Democrat, was a U.S. Congressman who represented the 3rd congressional district of Maryland from 1947 to 1973....

. He also represented a witness who offered evidence in the case against former Vice-President Spiro Agnew

Spiro Agnew

Spiro Theodore Agnew was the 39th Vice President of the United States , serving under President Richard Nixon, and the 55th Governor of Maryland...

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After graduating from the University of Maryland Law School in 1957, Weiner clerked for Simon E. Sobeloff. He then worked as an assistant United States Attorney

United States Attorney

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. After leaving the federal prosecutor's office, Weiner worked as a criminal defense attorney, before turning to civil litigation.

One of his largest civil cases was against Ernst & Young

Ernst & Young

Ernst & Young is one of the largest professional services networks in the world and one of the "Big Four" accountancy firms, along with Deloitte, KPMG and PricewaterhouseCoopers ....

, where he settled for a near-record $185 million. After settling that case, E&Y hired Weiner to represent E&Y in a related case against its law firm

Law firm

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Weiner currently practices in Baltimore with his son-in-law, Barry L. Gogel.