Lisa Bloom and Client Janice Dickinson Mentioned in US Weekly Article About Bill Cosby Lawsuit
Lisa Bloom on CNN Discussing Lawsuit Against Bill Cosby
Lisa comments on Daily News article about Janice Dickinson defamation suit against Bill Cosby
Collateral consequences: Two words that give the rich, and only the rich, a pass for their crimes
Five of the world’s biggest banks are about to plead guilty to a stunning array of crimes. So brazen were these superrich, powerful banks that they referred to themselves as “the cartel” or “the mafia” as they illegally fixed prices to line their own pockets. The banks’ crimes have to do with price-fixing on the foreign currency exchange market,
A rush to judgment against 6 Baltimore police officers for the death of Freddie Gray? Hardly.
Last week, Baltimore’s State Attorney General, Marilyn Mosby, announced at a press conference a stunning array of charges against six police officers. Alleging that they improperly arrested Freddie Gray, 25, without probable cause, Mosby said the knife he was carrying was legal. Ignoring Gray’s pleas that he could not breathe and his request for his
Dear Justice Kennedy: Look not to the millennia
In the most important civil rights case of this Supreme Court term, the issue of whether the constitution requires every state to recognize same-sex marriages was argued this week. The four liberal justices, including all three women on the Court, appear ready to hold that the equal protection clause of the constitution’s Fourteenth Amendment bans
DO POLICE LIE?
As the media continues to expose an appalling series of police shootings of mostly unarmed African Americans, most of us view the stories through the lens of our own experience. White Americans generally respect law enforcement, and assume that they tell the truth when they say they were threatened and had to shoot. Seventy-seven percent
INDIANA JURY MAKES DANGEROUS CALL IN FETICIDE CASE
Indiana recently made news for passing a religious freedom law that was a thinly disguised attempt to legalize LGBT discrimination. Now the state is in the spotlight again – this time for targeting women’s reproductive rights. An Indiana woman was just sentenced to 20 years in prison, in part for attempting to terminate her pregnancy.
Why Indiana’s homophobic religious freedom law is a disaster
In the struggle for equality for LGBT Americans, it’s two steps forward, one step back. Sometimes it comes down to pizza, and every slice matters. I’ll explain. Gay marriage is now the law in 37 states and the District of Columbia. Nearly 72 percent of the U.S. population lives in a state currently issuing marriage licenses to same sex
Six Steps for Lawyers (and Everyone Else) to Become Better Listeners
What’s the number one complaint clients have about their lawyers? Uncivil communication. Put more bluntly, we can come across as arrogant jerks. For some of us, that’s because we actually are obnoxious blowhards. But for the rest, it’s because we’re busy, we’re stressed, we’re trained to get right to the point, even to bore in