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Panel Features Adam Liptak of The New York Times, Dan Abrams of NBC News, Mickey Sherman of CBS News, and Adrienne Wheeler of Inside Edition
NEW YORK, March 21, 2005 -- A distinguished group of lawyers and legal commentators will gather at New York Law School on April 21, 2005 for a panel discussion titled “Covering the Big Case: From O.J. Simpson to Michael Jackson.” The panelists will discuss how the media cover high-profile cases: In a 24/7 news environment, how does a particular case become the Big Case? Do lawyers play the media, and should they? Can jurors be fair in the Big Case?
Some of the participants have tried high-profile cases themselves, and others have covered them for the national media. All of the panelists will call upon their varied experiences in discussing the intersection of law, media, and popular culture.
This program marks the launch of New York Law School’s Program in Law & Journalism, the new home for the study of the relationships between and among law, lawyers, journalism, the media, and the public. The codirectors of the program are writer and law professor Cameron Stracher and well-known FOX News commentator and law professor Lis Wiehl.
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Thursday, April 21, 2005
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| Name of Event: |
“Covering the Big Case: From O.J. Simpson to Michael Jackson”
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12 noon–1:30 p.m.
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Stiefel Reading Room, New York Law School, 47 Worth Street (between Church Street and West Broadway), New York, New York
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| Panelists: |
Dan Abrams
Chief Legal Correspondent, NBC News
Host, “The Abrams Report,” MSNBC
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Adam Liptak
National Legal Correspondent
The New York Times
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Mickey Sherman
Criminal Defense Attorney
Legal Analyst, CBS News
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Adrienne Wheeler
Managing Editor
Inside Edition
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| Introductory Remarks: |
Jethro K. Lieberman
Associate Dean for Academic Affairs and Professor, New York Law School
Former Founding Editor of BusinessWeek Magazine’s Legal Affairs Department
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| Moderator: |
Lis Wiehl
Adjunct Professor and Codirector of the Program in Law & Journalism, New York Law School
Associate Professor, University of Washington School of Law
Legal Analyst, FOX News Channel |
Professor Wiehl is currently teaching the course Advocacy, Media, and the Big Case at New York Law School.
About the Program in Law & Journalism:
The Program in Law & Journalism provides a forum for working journalists to learn about legal issues; for lawyers to learn about the work of journalists; for students who are interested in legal careers at the intersection of law and journalism; and for academics whose scholarly interests may encompass both arenas. Affiliated with New York Law School’s Institute for Information Law and Policy and Center for Professional Values and Practice, the program hosts seminars, panels, and colloquia on legal issues raised by newsgathering activities, the ethics and practicalities of dealing with the media, and the role of lawyers in media and the influence of the media on lawyering.
About New York Law School:
Founded in 1891, New York Law School is the second oldest independent law school in the United States. Drawing on its location near the centers of law, government, and finance in New York City, its faculty of noted and prolific scholars has built the school’s curricular strength in the areas of tax law, labor and employment law, civil and human rights law, media and information law, urban legal studies, international and comparative law, and interdisciplinary fields such as legal history and legal ethics. New York Law School has more than 11,000 graduates and enrolls some 1500 students in its full- and part-time J.D. program. It is one of only two law schools in the metropolitan area to offer the Master of Laws (LL.M.) in Taxtion.
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Contact: Edith Sachs, Office of Public Affairs, 212.431.2187, esachs@nyls.edu
