Steven Brill (law writer)

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Steven Brill (born August 22, 1950 in Queens, New York) is best known as the founder of Clear Registered Traveler, the New York-based startup airport security fast-pass company. He is the creator of a magazine with a critical eye to the media, Brill's Content^[1]. He also launched the now-defunct Contentville.com, which was to be a clearinghouse for the buying and selling of web text, news, and info of all sorts. The Contentville.com concept crashed with the dot.coms in 2001. For a time he was a columnist for Newsweek. Brill also founded CourtTV and American Lawyer magazine. He is the author of The Teamsters (1978) and After: How America Confronted the September 12th Era (2003).

1 Personal life
2 Timeline of projects
3 Brill's Content
4 FlyClear
5 Quotations
6 References
7 External links

[edit] Personal life

Brill is a graduate of Deerfield Academy and Yale University (BA, 1972; JD, 1975). He is married and has three children. He currently resides in New York City and Bedford, New York.^[2]

[edit] Timeline of projects

1978, October: Teamsters (ISBN 0671227718) is published
1987: The American Lawyer launches
1991: CourtTV launches^[3]
1998, August: Brill's Content launches
2000, July: Contentville launches^[4]
2001: Brill begins teaching an advanced journalism course at Yale^[5]
2001, November: Brill signs on as a contributing editor for Newsweek^[3]
2003: Verified Identity Pass is founded
2003, April: After: How America Confronted the September 12 Era (ISBN 0743237099) is published
2003, October: The America Prepared Campaign is launched^[6]
2003, Fall: Founded Verified Identity Pass/ Clear Registered Traveler

[edit] Brill's Content

Brill's Content was a media watchdog publication that ceased publication in 2001.^[7]

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[edit] FlyClear

His latest venture is FlyClear[1], a subsidiary of Verified Identity Pass[2]. It allows travelers to get through airport security quickly with an annual subsbscription to the program and pre-screening.

[edit] Quotations

"Journalists are probably the only people on the planet who make lawyers look good."^[8]

According to Michael Wolff,

The magazine New York Woman ran a story about the worst places for women to work, flatly stating that the story did not include jobs "inherently loathsome for men and for women, such as working in a subway booth, scrubbing floors or working for Steven Brill, the notoriously bullying editor of American Lawyer."^[8]