Rikki Klieman
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Rikki Klieman is an American criminal defense lawyer and TV personality for Court TV. Additionally, she is an author, actress, and is married to the city of Los Angeles’s chief of police, William Bratton.
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[edit] Early life
She was born in Chicago to a Ukrainian immigrant family, where she danced, acted, and sang as a youth.[1] Rikki Klieman attended Northwestern University where she was a theater major and had plans of becoming an actress.[2] However, she decided to attend law school. Klieman graduated from Boston University School of Law in 1975 with her Juris Doctor.[2] During law school she externed for U.S. District Court judge Walter Jay Skinner.[2]
[edit] Legal career
After law school she joined the Boston, Massachusetts law firm of Friedman & Atherton before entering private practice.[2] Then in 1983 she was named by Time magazine as one of the five best female attorneys in the United States.[1] From 1996 to 2003 she was part of the faculty at Columbia’s law school, while previously spending time on her alma mater’s faculty at Boston University’s law school.[2]
[edit] Other
Klieman currently works for the Court TV television network.[2] She has also acted in the guest-recurring role of lawyer Kathy Berson on TV series Las Vegas during the 2005-06 season. More recently, she has appeared on the TV show Shark.[3] She also wrote her autobiography with Peter Knobler, Fairy Tales Can Come True: How a Driven Woman Changed Her Destiny. She is currently the fourth wife of Los Angeles police chief William J. Bratton.[1]
