Harry P. Litman (born c. 1958) is an American lawyer, law professor and political commentator. He is a former U.S. Attorney and Deputy Assistant Attorney General. He has provided commentary in print and broadcast news and produces the Talking Feds podcast. He has taught in multiple law schools and schools of public policy. Litman served as a law clerk to Abner Mikva, Thurgood Marshall, and Anthony Kennedy. His practice specialties have included False Claims law and Whistleblower law. Early life and education Litman grew up in the Shadyside neighborhood of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and was named a Presidential Scholar upon graduation from high school in 1976. Both his parents, Roslyn Litman and S. David Litman, were lawyers as well as civil liberties advocates. He received his Bachelor of Arts from Harvard College in 1980; during his studies he worked as a sports reporter for the Associated Press and as a production assistant. He received his Juris Doctor from the University of California at Berkeley in 1986, where he was editor-in-chief of the California Law Review and graduated Order of the Coif. Career Litman served as a law clerk to Abner Mikva of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit; and Supreme Court Justices Thurgood Marshall and Anthony Kennedy during the 19881989 term. Following his clerkships, Litman became an Assistant United States Attorney for the Northern District of California. While an Assistant U.S. Attorney, he was detailed to the Department of Justice's main office in Washington, D.C., to work on several national cases, including the federal re-prosecution of the Los Angeles police officers in the Rodney King case. From 1993 to 1998 he was a Deputy Assistant Attorney General under Janet Reno in the Department of Justice, coordinating the department's work on a number of issues and advising the Attorney General and other officials on questions of constitutional law and prosecutorial policy. Simultaneously, he was a Special Assistant U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia. In that capacity, he was co-counsel for Operation Underhand, prosecuting a narcotics ring that smuggled drugs into prison under the guise of providing religious counseling. In 1998, he was appointed U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Pennsylvania by President Bill Clinton. As U.S. Attorney, Litman in 1999 announced that the office would not charge the five officers involved in the killing of Jonny Gammage. Litman in 2000 personally litigated a gun trafficking case