 He went to the FCC from the Los Angeles office of the law firm Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld, where he was the head of litigation for the renowned firm.He is best known as the author of "Closed Chambers," a controversial look at the inner workings of the Supreme Court.His first book, "Black Hills, White Justice," was about the legal history of the Sioux Nation's land claims against the United States for compensation for the Black Hills — for which his father, Arthur Lazarus, Jr. was a principal attorney — culminating in the United States Supreme Court's ruling in "United States v. Sioux Nation of Indians".