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Charles Nesson was born on 11 February, 1939, is an American lawyer (born 1939). Discover Charles Nesson's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 85 years old?

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1907

He is rumored to have achieved the highest grade point average since Felix Frankfurter (later a Justice on the Supreme Court of the United States) graduated in 1907.

1939

Charles Rothwell Nesson (born February 11, 1939) is the William F. Weld Professor of Law at Harvard Law School and the founder of the Berkman Center for Internet & Society and of the Global Poker Strategic Thinking Society.

He is author of Evidence, with Murray and Green, and has participated in several cases before the U.S. Supreme Court, including the landmark case Daubert v. Merrell Dow Pharmaceuticals.

1962

In 1962 he received the Sears Prize of US$750 for the highest grade average in the first and second years of law school.

1965

Nesson was a law clerk to Supreme Court Justice John Marshall Harlan II, 1965 term.

He then worked as a special assistant in the United States Department of Justice Civil Rights Division under John Doar.

While there, his first civil rights case, White v. Crook in the United States District Court for the Northern District of Alabama, made race-based and gender-based jury selection in Alabama unconstitutional.

1966

Nesson joined the Harvard Law School faculty in 1966, and was tenured three years later.

1971

In 1971, Nesson defended Daniel Ellsberg in the Pentagon Papers case.

He was co-counsel for the plaintiffs in the case against W. R. Grace and Company that was made into the book A Civil Action, which was, in turn, made into the film of the same name.

Nesson's nickname in the book, Billion-Dollar Charlie, was given to him by Mark Phillips, who worked with him on the W.R. Grace case.

, Nesson was currently "interested in advancing justice in Jamaica, the evolution of the Internet, as well as [the United States'] national drug policy."

Nesson attended Harvard College as an undergraduate, studying mathematics.

He took the law school boards junior year, earning a nearly perfect score, but he was initially rejected early admission from Harvard Law School for his grades.

After improving his grades, Nesson was accepted.

Nesson surprised himself by achieving and retaining a ranking of first out of five hundred students.

1998

In 1998, he co-founded Harvard's Berkman Center for Internet & Society.

2006

In 2006, Nesson taught CyberOne: Law in the Court of Public Opinion with Rebecca Nesson and Gene Koo.

He teaches courses in the law and practice of evidence, Trials in Second Life, where he is represented by his avatar "Eon", and a reading group on Freedom with Fern Nesson He also teaches a class on the American Jury.

Nesson led projects to "reify university as a meta player in cyberspace", to advance restorative justice in Jamaica, and to legitimize and teach poker and the value of strategic poker thinking.

2008

For the last one, he made an appearance on The Colbert Report in January 2008.

When Colbert joked that Nesson may have a gambling problem, he responded, "My gambling problem is that poker gets lumped in with gambling."

In May 2008, he represented Keith Stroup – the founder of National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws, and Richard Cusick – an associate publisher of High Times magazine, who wished to challenge Massachusetts marijuana possession laws after they were arrested for smoking marijuana at the 2007 Boston Freedom Rally.

The defendants were found guilty and sentenced to a day in jail.

2009

In 2009, Nesson acted as defense lawyer for Joel Tenenbaum, who was accused of downloading and sharing 31 songs on the Kazaa file-sharing network; the jury came to a $675,000 verdict against Tenenbaum.

Many of Nesson's less conventional actions during the case, including an "almost obsessive desire for transparency and documentation", drew criticism.

Nesson had encouraged Tenenbaum to admit that he had downloaded and shared the 31 songs after he had denied it in depositions.

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Following his tenure at Harvard, Nesson married Fern Leicher Nesson, one of his students, and bought a home in Cambridge, Massachusetts, near the Harvard campus, where they were living.

The Nessons have two daughters, Rebecca and Leila.