Edward S. Rosenthal

Edward S. Rosenthal is a founding principal and the managing partner of Rich Rosenthal Brincefield Manitta Dzubin & Kroeger, LLP and its predecessors. He received a Bachelor of Arts degree from Amherst College as an Independent Scholar in 1973.

In 1976, he graduated from Georgetown University Law Center, and has been engaged in the private practice of law with offices in the City of Alexandria, Virginia, ever since.

He is an occasional lecturer on the constitution and criminal law at schools and universities. Mr. Rosenthal has testified on the constitutionality of proposed legislation before the Courts of Justice Committee of the Virginia House of Delegates.

As the former chair of the Alexandria Bar Association’s Legislative Affairs Committee, Mr. Rosenthal contributed to the successful effort to establish a Public Defender’s Office for the City of Alexandria, one of the first such offices in Virginia.

He has frequently served as an evaluator in the D.C. Street Law Mock Trial Program, sponsored by Georgetown University. Under the auspices of the Federal Judicial Training Center, Mr. Rosenthal has participated in the training of new federal trial judges.

He is a member of the Board of Directors of the Northern Virginia Chapter of the ACLU of Virginia and an active member of the statewide Legal Panel, which helps select those cases that the ACLU of Virginia will support.

Mr. Rosenthal is also a Master of the George Mason University Chapter of the American Inns of Court, and he has assisted a number of area law firms and sole practitioners with matters of law office technology.

Education:

• Amherst College, B.A., 1973
• Georgetown University, J.D., 1976

Admissions and Affiliations:

• District of Columbia Bar, 1976
• U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Virginia, 1976
• U.S. District Court, District of Columbia, 1977
• U.S. Court of Appeals, District of Columbia Circuit, 1977