David Rudolf is a defense lawyer

Lawyer

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He attended Rutgers University

Rutgers University

Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey , is the largest institution for higher education in New Jersey, United States. It was originally chartered as Queen's College in 1766. It is the eighth-oldest college in the United States and one of the nine Colonial colleges founded before the American...

 and the London School of Economics

London School of Economics

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, and received his law degree from New York University School of Law

New York University School of Law

The New York University School of Law is the law school of New York University. Established in 1835, the school offers the J.D., LL.M., and J.S.D. degrees in law, and is located in Greenwich Village, in the New York City borough of Manhattan....

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Rudolf has served as an Adjunct Professor at both the Duke University School of Law

Duke University School of Law

The Duke University School of Law is the law school and a constituent academic unit of Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, United States. One of Duke's 10 schools and colleges, the School of Law began as the Trinity College School of Law in 1868. In 1924, following the renaming of Trinity...

 and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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 School of Law.
He has defended clients such as Rae Carruth

Rae Carruth

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 and Michael Peterson

Michael Peterson (author)

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, the latter trial being the subject of the documentary Soupçons

Soupçons

Soupçons is a 2004 television miniseries by Jean-Xavier de Lestrade documenting the trial of Michael Peterson, accused of murdering his wife....

(The Staircase).

Rudolf is currently serving as local counsel in Durham, North Carolina

Durham, North Carolina

Durham is a city in the U.S. state of North Carolina. It is the county seat of Durham County and also extends into Wake County. It is the fifth-largest city in the state, and the 85th-largest in the United States by population, with 228,330 residents as of the 2010 United States census...

 for New York City lawyer Barry Scheck

Barry Scheck

Barry C. Scheck is an American lawyer. He received national media attention while serving on O.J. Simpson's defense team, winning an acquittal in the highly publicized murder case. Scheck is the director of the Innocence Project and a professor at Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law in New York...

, who was hired by falsely accused Duke lacrosse player Reade Seligmann to represent him in a likely civil lawsuit to be filed against the city of Durham and its former district attorney, Mike Nifong.

External links

• Rudolf Widenhouse & Fialko law firm
• The Staircase website from the Sundance Channel