Steven Brill (law writer)
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Steven Brill (born August 22, 1950 in Queens, New York) is the founder of CourtTV and American Lawyer magazine. He also founded the failed Verified Identity Pass, Inc.,[1] the New York-based company that operated the Clear airport security fast-pass.[2] The service abruptly shut down June 23, 2009, without any notice to the company's 260,000 paid customers. Brill is the creator of Brill's Content, a now-defunct magazine with a critical eye to the media.[3] 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. His most recent venture is Journalism Online. He is the author of The Teamsters (1978) and After: How America Confronted the September 12th Era (2003).
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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
- 2009, April: Co-founded Journalism Online, a digital publishing services company[9]
- 2009, June 23: The Clear/Verified Identity Pass program is abruptly ended.
[edit] American Lawyer
The American Lawyer is a monthly law magazine founded by Brill in 1979. One of its early contributors was Jim Cramer. The magazine covered the rise and subsequent precipitous collapse of the law firm of Finley, Kumble, Wagner, Underberg, Manley, Myerson & Casey in 1987.[10]
[edit] Brill's Content
Brill's Content was a media watchdog publication that ceased publication in 2001.[11]
[edit] Clear
In 2003, Brill founded Clear, a subsidiary of Verified Identity Pass, Inc.[12] It allowed travelers to get through airport security quickly with an annual subscription to the program and pre-screening.
According to their website [2], Clear ceased operations "at 11:00 p.m. PST on June 22, 2009... Clear’s parent company, Verified Identity Pass, Inc. has been unable to negotiate an agreement with its senior creditor to continue operations."
[edit] Journalism Online
In 2009, Brill and two other media executives created Journalism Online to help newspapers and magazines charge for online access.[13]
[edit] Quotations
"Journalists are probably the only people on the planet who make lawyers look good."[14]
[edit] References
- ^ verifiedpass.com
- ^ a b flyclear.com
- ^ Downsizings, Oct. 16-31, 2001
- ^ palm eBook Store: Author: Steven Brill in the Yale Alumni Magazine
- ^ a b Brill is born again as a Newsweek columnist
- ^ Listen Up Contentville - Authors Win Lawduit in ForeWord Magazine]
- ^ Yale's content enhanced by Brill in Yale Alumni Magazine
- ^ The America Prepared Campaign at ClearChannel
- ^ Journalism’s Savior? - Newsweek
- ^ Finley, Kumble, Major Law Firm, Facing Revamping or Dissolution - New York Times Article is about the event only - makes no mention of Brill or American Lawyer
- ^ Brill's Content Closes and Primedia Acquires Inside The Write News
- ^ Clear Corporate Information
- ^ Media Executives Plan Online Service to Charge for Content
- ^ as quoted in Wolff's Brill's Content by Michael Wolff
