MacArthur Fellows Program, aka "GENIUS GRANTS": Charles Jerome Ware --- Attorney/Professor/Judge/College Administrator

www.CharlesJeromeWare.com

THE PROGRAM

The MacArthur Fellows Program awards "unrestricted fellowships" (aka "Genius Grants") to talented individuals who have shown extraordinary originality and dedication in their creative pursuits and a marked capacity for self-direction.

The current amount of the award, $500,000, is paid as quarterly installments over 5 years typically to 20 to 40 awardees each year by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation.  Twenty-three MacArthur fellows were named in 2012, and over 850 fellows have been named over the life of the program (since 1981).

Charles Jerome Ware is president of the national law firm Charles Jerome Ware, P.A., Attorneys and Counselors. He is a renowned trial attorney, with several celebrity clients and numerous successful cases to his credit. Headquartered in nearby Columbia, Maryland, and with multiple offices throughout the country, the firm specializes in complex civil and criminal litigation, and catastrophic injury, wrongful death and class action lawsuits.

Ware is a former federal administrative law judge, and he was the youngest immigration judge in the history of the U.S. Additionally, he has served as chief legal and antitrust counsel to the chairman of the U.S. Federal Trade Commission, assistant U.S. Attorney for Maryland and the Eastern District of Virginia, and senior trial attorney in both the antitrust and criminal divisions of the U.S. Department of Justice, as well as executive vice president and general counsel for St. Paul's College, among other positions.

Attorney Charles Jerome Ware is renowned and consistently ranked among the best attorneys and legal counsellors in the United States. [GQ Magazine, The Washington Post, The Baltimore Sun, The Columbia Flier, The Howard County Sun, The Anniston Star, The New York Times, et al.]

Ware is a widely acclaimed expert legal commentator who, for eight years in the 1990s hosted the extremely popular legal advice radio program "The Lawyer's Mailbox": the Number One (#1) legal advice radio program in the Mid-Atlantic States, on WEAA-88.9 FM, Morgan State University Radio in Baltimore, Maryland.

Among attorney and author Charles Jerome Ware's best-selling books are:

(1) The Secret Science of Winning Lotteries, Sweepstakes and Contests;
http://amzn.com/1432793888
(2) Understanding the Law: A Primer;
http://amzn.com/1440111456
(3) The Immigration Paradox: 15 Tips for Winning Immigration Cases;
http://amzn.com/1440171920
(4) Legal Consumer Tips and Secrets: Avoiding Debtors' Prison in the United States; and
http://amzn.com/1462051847
(5) Quince (15) Consejos Para Ganar Casos Del Inmigracion.
http://amzn.com/1462068952
Ware's blogs and twitter include, inter alia:

http://charlesware.blogspot.com

http://www.thelawyersmailbox.blogspot.com

http://www.twitter.com/CharlesJWare

http://open.salon.com/blog/charlesjware