From 2004 to 2008, he was Adjunct Professor of Law there while practicing at Bredhoff and Kaiser, P.L.L.C. At Bredhoff, where he was Of Counsel from 2005 to 2008, Mr. Edelman represented both plaintiffs and defendants in complex state and federal civil litigation involving RICO, employment, labor law, employee benefit, and civil rights. From 1997 to 2005, Mr. Edelman was a trial attorney with the Public Defender Service for the District of Columbia where he served as lead counsel in dozens of felony trials, including homicides, conspiracies, and other serious crimes. Mr. Edelman became a trial supervisor in 2001, and was Chief of the agency’s Serious Felony Section from 2002 to 2004. He served as the agency’s Training Director in 2004 and 2005.