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1.1 Peter Brann 1.1 Peter Brann
https://hls.harvard.edu/faculty/directory/11551/Brann
Lecturer in Law, Harvard Law School
Former Lecturer in Law, Yale Law School
Former Lecturer in Law, Columbia Law School
State Solicitor and Assistant Attorney General in Maine (1981 – 1999)
Partner, Brann & Isaacson (1999 – present)
Mr. Brann was an assistant attorney general and then State Solicitor in the Maine Attorney General’s Office between 1981 and 1999.
Since 1999, Mr. Brann has been an associate and now a partner at Brann & Isaacson, which has been hired as outside counsel on behalf of attorneys general in Maine and elsewhere, and has been adverse to attorneys general in Maine and numerous other states.
Since 2010, Mr. Brann has taught or co-taught a class entitled “The Role of the State Attorney General” at Columbia, Yale, and Harvard law schools, and at Bates College.
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1.2 James Tierney 1.2 James Tierney
https://hls.harvard.edu/faculty/directory/10888/Tierney
Lecturer in Law, Harvard Law School
Former Lecturer in Law, Yale Law School
Former Director of the National State Attorney General Program at Columbia Law School
Attorney General of Maine (1980 – 1990)
James E. Tierney is the former Attorney General of Maine and a Lecturer at Harvard Law School where he teaches courses on the role of state attorneys general while directing the Harvard Attorney General clinic. https://hls.harvard.edu/faculty/directory/10888/Tierney
For thirteen years Tierney was the Director of the National State Attorneys General Program at Columbia Law School and he has also taught courses at Yale Law School, Boston College Law School, Northeastern Law School and the University of Maine School of Law.
Mr. Tierney served as the Attorney General of Maine from 1980 until 1990. During his ten years as Attorney General of Maine, Mr. Tierney played an active role in the National Association of Attorneys General (NAAG). Mr. Tierney has also served as a Special Prosecutor in Florida, Pennsylvania, Minnesota and Vermont and, on behalf of NAAG, authored an analysis of the operations of state grand jury practice throughout the United States.
Since 1982 Mr. Tierney has instructed newly elected state Attorneys General on the effective performance of their office and he continues to consult for incumbent attorneys general and their staffs on a wide variety of matters. Tierney is married to author Elizabeth Strout. He has five children and eight grandchildren.