Lisa Bloom
| Lisa Bloom | |
|---|---|
 Lisa Bloom | |
| Born |
Lisa Read Bloom September 20, 1961 California, U.S.A. |
| Education |
B.A., University of California, Los Angeles J.D., Yale Law School |
| Occupation | Attorney, Author and Television Legal Analyst |
| Employer | The Bloom Firm |
| Children | one son and one daughter, Sam & Sarah |
| Website | |
| www.TheBloomFirm.com | |
Lisa Bloom (born September 20, 1961) is an American civil rights attorney best known as anchor of Lisa Bloom: Open Court, a two-hour live legal news program on truTv's In Session, from 2001 to 2009.[1] She is the only child of high-profile civil rights attorney Gloria Allred.[2] Bloom serves as legal analyst for Avvo, the influential lawyer database. In 2013, she signed on as permanent legal analyst for The Today Show.[3]
Biography
Bloom received a bachelor's degree from UCLA and a Juris Doctor (J.D.) from Yale Law School.[4] Among Bloom's lawsuits, she unsuccessfully sued the Boy Scouts of America for sex discrimination on behalf of Katrina Yeaw, a girl who wanted to join the organization.[5] She also filed a child sexual abuse case suit against the Catholic Church, and sued the Los Angeles Police Department on several occasions.[6]
Bloom is a television legal analyst on CBS News, CNN, HLN and MSNBC, who also appears on The Early Show, The Insider, Dr. Phil, Dr. Drew, The Situation Room, Reliable Sources, The Joy Behar Show and Issues with Jane Velez-Mitchell.[7]
She is the founder and managing partner of The Bloom Firm, a general-practice law firm that handles family, civil and criminal matters.[8] Bloom is licensed to practice law in both New York and California.
She is also a vegan.[9]
Books
In May 2011 Bloom book Think: Straight Talk for Women to Stay Smart in a Dumbed-Down World was published by Vanguard Press.[10]
Think was reviewed by the Kirkus Book Review [11] and was on the New York Times Bestseller List.[12]
In May 2012 Bloom published Swagger: 10 Urgent Rules for Raising Boys in an Era of Failing Schools, Mass Joblessness, and Thug Culture.[13]
References
- ↑ TVNewser http://www.mediabistro.com/tvnewser/lisa-bloom-leaving-trutv_b22414
- ↑ Mother-daughter relationship noted in Allred profile on Nightline (August 26, 2010)
- ↑ TVNewser http://www.mediabistro.com/tvnewser/lisa-bloom-joins-today-as-legal-analyst_b167989
- ↑ AEI Speaker's Bureau Bio of Lisa Bloom
- ↑ Yeaw v. Boy Scouts of America 1997
- ↑ Court TV anchor biography
- ↑ AEI Speaker's Bureau Bio of Lisa Bloom
- ↑ The Bloom Firm official website
- ↑
- ↑ Shea, Lisa (2011). "Lisa Bloom's New Book 'Think: Straight Talk for Women to Stay Smart in a Dumbed Down World'". elle.com. Retrieved 2 June 2011.
- ↑ Kirkus Book Review http://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/non-fiction/lisa-bloom/think/#review
- ↑ New York Times Bestseller List http://www.nytimes.com/best-sellers-books/2011-06-26/hardcover-advice/list.html
- ↑ [http://booksbywomen.org/book-review-lisa-bloom-swagger/, Book Review: Lisa Bloom’s Swagger | Women Writers, Women Books]
External links
- Lisa Bloom at the Internet Movie Database
- Lisa Bloom's Official Website
- The Bloom Firms's Official Website
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