Mar­tin J. Siegel clerked for Judge Kauf­man after grad­u­at­ing from Har­vard Law School. He then served as an Assis­tant U.S. Attor­ney in New York and a staffer on the U.S. Sen­ate Judi­cia­ry Com­mit­tee. He now prac­tices and teach­es law in Hous­ton, Texas. Siegel’s writ­ing has appeared in The New York Times, Los Ange­les Times, Hous­ton Chron­i­cle, and legal journals.