Justin Peacock (–2023)

Received an MFA from Columbia University and a law degree from Yale. Prior to attending law school, he worked as an online producer at the New York Times. His legal experience ranges from death-penalty defense to First Amendment cases. He lives in Brooklyn.

[from Deadline online obituary]
Peacock graduated from the University of Michigan with BA, from Columbia University with MFA and from Yale Law School. He worked as an intellectual property and First Amendment attorney in New York — with his experience ranging from death penalty defense to First Amendment cases and big-firm litigation — before publishing his first novel, A Cure for Night, in 2008. Published by Doubleday, it was nominated for an Edgar Award and honored by the Washington Post as a Book of the Year.

He went on to become a full-time writer and relocated to Los Angeles in 2011 to work on Suits. Peacock wrote for the hit USA Network legal drama for three seasons in 2012-15. He went on to work as writer-producer on another legal drama, Netflix's The Lincoln Lawyer, created by another lawyer-turned-TV writer, David E. Kelley. Most recently, Peacock was writer-supervising producer on Fox's freshman series Alert: Missing Persons Unit, which was renewed for a second season.