Adam Liptak Biography
Adam Liptak is an American journalist, lawyer, and law and journalism instructor working as The New York Times’ Supreme Court correspondent.
How old is Adam Liptak? – Age
Liptak is 60 years old as of 2 September 2020. He was born in 1960 in Stamford, Connecticut, United States.
Adam Liptak Education
He began working for The New York Times as a copyboy in 1984, after graduating with honors from Yale University, where he was an editor of the Yale Daily News. In addition to clerical work and coffee fetching, he assisted reporter M. A. Farber in covering the trial of General William Westmoreland’s libel suit against CBS.
He returned to Yale for his J.D. and graduated from Yale Law School in 1988. Liptak worked as a summer clerk in The New York Times Company’s legal department during law school. After graduation, he worked as a litigation associate at Cahill Gordon & Reindel, a New York City law firm, for four years, specializing in First Amendment issues.
Adam Liptak Wife
Liptak lives in Washington, D.C., with his veterinarian wife, Jennifer Bitman, and their two children, Katie and Ivan.
Adam Liptak Net Worth
Adam has an estimated net worth of $5 Million.
Adam Liptak Career
Liptak became The New York Times’ national legal correspondent in 2002. In 2008, he began covering the Supreme Court. Liptak’s work has appeared in The New Yorker, Vanity Fair, Rolling Stone, and The American Lawyer, among other publications. With his column “Please Calculate Badly,” he was featured in The Harvard Crimson’s 2014 commencement issue. He has taught media law and Supreme Court courses at several law schools. He has published a number of law review articles on First Amendment issues.
He serves on the board of the Media Law Resource Center and the communications and media law committee of the New York City Bar Association. In January 2007, he launched the Sidebar column. He also writes a weekly column for the New Yorker and has an e-book called To Have and Uphold: The Supreme Court and the Struggle for Same-Sex Marriage. Samuel Alito, a former United States Supreme Court Justice, is his father.
Adam Liptak Awards
Presstime magazine named him one of the top 20 newspaper professionals under the age of 40 in 1995. He received the John Peter Zenger award from the New York Press Club in 1999 for “defending and advancing the cause of a free press.” The same organization honored him with the Crystal Gavel award for his journalistic work in 2006. In 2009, he was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for Explanatory Reporting, and he won the Scripps Howard Award for Washington Reporting in 2010 for a five-part series on the Roberts Court. Liptak received an honorary doctor of laws degree from Stetson University in 2014, and the Presidential Medal from Hofstra University in 2008. He is an American Academy of Arts and Sciences member.