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Cole clerked on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit and practiced law in Philadelphia. He served as a reporter for the Committee on Forfeiture in Drug Offense Cases at the National Conference of Commissioners on Uniform State Laws. He has been a visiting professor of law at Georgetown University. He joined the USD School of Law faculty in 1987 and served as the ninth dean of the school from 2005 to 2011.