Jeffrey Toobin is a staff writer at The New Yorker, the legal analyst at ABC News, and the author of the critically acclaimed bestsellers A Vast Conspiracy: The Real Story of the Sex Scandal That Nearly Brought Down a President and The Run of His Life: The People v. O.J. Simpson. He served as an assistant United States attorney in Brooklyn and as an associate counsel in the office of independent counsel Lawrence E. Walsh—which provided the basis for his book Opening Arguments: A Young Lawyer's First Case—United States Supreme Court v. Oliver North. He is a magna cum laude graduate of Harvard Law School.

Toobin lives with his family in New York City.