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[1], the New York-based startup airport security fast-pass company. He is the creator of a now-defunct magazine with a critical eye to the media, Brill's Content[2]. He also launched 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).

Mr. Brill notably covered the rise and subsequent precipitous collapse of the law firm of Finley, Kumble, Wagner, Underberg, Manley, Myerson & Casey in American Lawyer.[3]

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[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.[4]

[edit] Timeline of projects

  • 1978, October: Teamsters (ISBN 0-671-22771-8) is published
  • 1987: The American Lawyer launches
  • 1991: CourtTV launches[5]
  • 1998, August: Brill's Content launches
  • 2000, July: Contentville launches[6]
  • 2001: Brill begins teaching an advanced journalism course at Yale[7]
  • 2001, November: Brill signs on as a contributing editor for Newsweek[5]
  • 2003: Verified Identity Pass is founded
  • 2003, April: After: How America Confronted the September 12 Era (ISBN 0-7432-3709-9) is published
  • 2003, October: The America Prepared Campaign is launched[8]
  • 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.[9]

[edit] Clear

His latest venture is Clear, a subsidiary of Verified Identity Pass, Inc.[10] It allows travelers to get through airport security quickly with an annual subscription to the program and pre-screening.

[edit] Quotations

"Journalists are probably the only people on the planet who make lawyers look good."[11]

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."[11] ”

[edit] References

  1. ^ flyclear.com
  2. ^ Downsizings, Oct. 16-31, 2001
  3. ^ Finley, Kumble, Major Law Firm, Facing Revamping or Dissolution - New York Times
  4. ^ palm eBook Store: Author: Steven Brill in the Yale Alumni Magazine
  5. ^ a b Brill is born again as a Newsweek columnist
  6. ^ Listen Up Contentville - Authors Win Lawduit in ForeWord Magazine]
  7. ^ Yale's content enhanced by Brill in Yale Alumni Magazine
  8. ^ The America Prepared Campaign at ClearChannel
  9. ^ Brill's Content Closes and Primedia Acquires Inside The Write News
  10. ^ Clear Corporate Information
  11. ^ a b as quoted in Wolff's Brill's Content by Michael Wolff

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