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My life these days is largely centered around my work. However, I have always been very active physically and remain in excellent physical condition notwithstanding my ever-expanding girth. I ran and coached competitively for about 25 years and then switched over to bicycling, which I have done all my life. Every year I promise to drop some pounds so that I can get back to doing time trials. In the meantime, I enjoy riding 4-6 days per week during the summer, with one long ride of 40-70 miles and the other rides 15-20 miles. I also lift weights, and am much stronger now than I was when I had skinny runner arms in my twenties and thirties.
Other than work and exercise, I follow a lot of sports, mostly at the professional level, including MMA (big fan of Royce Graycie back in the day and Fedor Emelianenko), Nascar (Jeff Gordon although I think his winning may be in the past), MLB (excited about the Nats), NFL (Redskins, since I live here), NHL (Caps, for the same reason, plus they're good), Le Tour de France, and track and field.
Although I long ago gave up my intellectual pretensions, I spent my younger adult years studying and teaching philosophy. In addition to Socrates and Plato, whom virtually all philosophy students in this country love, my favorite philosophers at the beginning of my studies were late nineteenth century Germans better known for their literary brilliance than their metaphysical prowess. Thus in 1975, I published my first paper on Schopenhauer and wrote a master's thesis comparing Thus Spoke Zarathustra by Neitzsche with Sartor Resartus by Thomas Carlyle, who was not a German philosopher but wished that he were.
As I progressed in my academic studies, I moved towards a style of philosophy formerly known as the British analytical school (I don't know if the term still is used), although one of the central figures in this school was Ludwig Wittgenstein, who was every bit as strange as Neitzsche and Schopenhauer.
Before leaving academia, apparently for good, I completed my Ph.D. from the University of New Mexico with a dissertation that concerned "self-defeating" and "self-fulfilling" predictions in the social sciences. This was more or less an interdisciplinary study in which I discussed certain theories of explaining social behavior then prevalent in sociology, psychology, economics, and sociobiology, none of which fields I have kept up with, since lawyers as a whole are rather anti-intellectual in nature.
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Posted by Sonia | December 4, 2014
I highly recommend Attorney John Christopher Belcher. He did an outstanding job representing me during a long, bitter, and painful divorce. My husband and I were fighting over custody of our minor daughter, distribution of marital property, alimony, and child support. There were allegations of do...
"I endorse this lawyer. Attorney Belcher is an outstanding attorney who brings a wealth of knowledge to his legal practice. He is a credit to the legal profession and I highly recommend his legal services. His resume is impeccable and his credentials speak for themselves."
Litigation lawyer
1994
Honorary Special Agent--prosecution of Tony Alamo, U.S. Department of Treasury
1991
Tax Division Outstanding Attorney, U.S. Department of Justice
1990
Honorary Special Agent--S&L Task Force, U.S. Department of Treasury
1987
Tax Division Outstanding Attorney, U.S. Department of Justice
1996 - Present
Attorney, John Christopher Belcher, Attorney at Law
1984 - 1994
Senior Trial Attorney, United States Dept. of Justice
1996 - Present
District of Columbia BarMember
1996 - Present
Maryland State Bar AssociationMember
1984 - Present
Louisiana State Bar AssociationMember
Acquittal on one count & hung jury on nine counts
Judgment for $81,800
Major charge dismissed--probation before judgment
1985
PhD - Doctorate
1984
JD - Juris Doctor
1973
A.B.
Spanish
French
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