After graduating magna cum laude from Harvard Law School in 1986, Mr. Estrada clerked for Circuit Court Judge Amalya Kearse and United States Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy and thereafter joined the law firm of Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz in New York. In 1990, Mr. Estrada became an Assistant U.S. Attorney where he prosecuted numerous federal criminal cases for the United States Attorneys Office in the Southern District of New York. From 1992 to 1997, Mr. Estrada argued numerous Supreme Court cases when he served as a Deputy Solicitor General, the U.S. Government's representative to the High Court.