Christopher Wimmer joined Brune & Richard in April 2009.   From 2006 to 2009, Mr. Wimmer practiced with Boies, Schiller & Flexner LLP and Friedman Kaplan Seiler & Adelman LLP.  Before that, he served as a law clerk to the Honorable Jack B. Weinstein of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York.  

In 2005, Mr. Wimmer graduated from Columbia Law School, where he was a Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar, a Jacquelin A. Swords Scholar, a Solomon I. Sklar Scholar, a Jacob Berger Fellow, a Charles Evans Hughes Fellow, and a Greer Fellow.  He also received the Paul R. Hays Prize and the Parker School Certificate in International Law.  During law school, Mr. Wimmer interned with a number of organizations, including the ACLU, Farmworker Legal Services, and the Southern Center for Human Rights.  He graduated with honors from the University of California at Berkeley in 1997 with degrees in rhetoric and molecular and cell biology.  

He is co-author with Judge Weinstein of "Sentencing in the United States," an essay on the history, practice, and philosophy of criminal punishment in the United States from the colonial era to the present.  The essay is excerpted in Mental Health Issues in Jails and Prisons: Cases and Materials (Michael L. Perlin & Henry A. Dlugacz, eds., Carolina Academic Press 2008), and will appear in a forthcoming volume on prisoner re-entry issues.