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Mr. Macchiaroli earned his J.D. from Washington University School of Law in 2003, where he received the Judge John W. Calhoun Award for Trial Advocacy, and his B.A. from Boston University in 2000. He is admitted in Maryland, the District of Columbia, New York, and Virginia, and before the U.S. Supreme Court; the U.S. Courts of Appeals for the Second, Third, Fourth, Seventh, and Federal Circuits; and the U.S. District Courts for the District of Maryland, the District of Columbia, the Eastern and Western Districts of Virginia, the Eastern, Northern, Southern, and Western Districts of New York, and the Northern and Southern Districts of Illinois.

Mr. Macchiaroli has authored more than 30 appellate briefs in the D.C. Circuit, the Second Circuit, and the District of Columbia Court of Appeals, and his work has resulted in numerous published decisions and news articles. He is a frequent legal commentator who has been interviewed by The Washington Post and CNN, among many other news sources, with appearances that include CNN Tonight on the Roger Stone prosecution (2020) and commentary in The Hill and The Washington Post on the Capitol riot investigations (2021). His other publications include "Refining the Contours of General Jurisdiction Over Foreign Corporations" (Hofstra Journal of International Business & Law, 2012), "To Speak or Not to Speak: Can Pre-Miranda Silence Be Used as Substantive Evidence of Guilt?" (The Champion, 2009), and "Two Decades After Asahi, Questions Remain" (Bloomberg Law Reports, 2009).

Mr. Macchiaroli is a member of the Assistant United States Attorneys Association of the District of Columbia and the Women's Bar Association of the District of Columbia, and serves as counsel under the Fraternal Order of Police Legal Defense Plan. He is appointed as Criminal Justice Act counsel in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia.

Mr. Macchiaroli spent more than ten years as an Assistant United States Attorney, first in the Civil Division of the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Southern District of Florida (2009–2012), where he represented the United States in all aspects of defensive and affirmative civil litigation, and then in the Criminal Section of the U.S. Attorney's Office for the District of Columbia (2012–2019), where he tried violent crime and large-scale multi-defendant conspiracy cases. He has participated in more than 100 criminal and civil evidentiary hearings in the U.S. District Courts for the District of Columbia, the Southern District of New York, and the Southern District of Florida and in the District of Columbia Superior Court. At Silverman Thompson he represents individual and corporate clients in commercial civil litigation and employment disputes, in grand jury and regulatory investigations, and in criminal prosecutions in federal court in Washington, D.C., Maryland, and Virginia, and has represented witnesses before Congressional hearings. Before joining the Department of Justice he practiced at White & Case LLP in New York and Washington, D.C., handling civil and white-collar matters including internal investigations. His civil results include a temporary restraining order in Vertex Telecom, Inc. v. XO Communications, Inc. (E.D. Va.) barring a defendant from disrupting service to 1.2 million customers and a six-figure settlement with reinstatement of employment in Hunter v. District of Columbia (D.D.C.).