Born into a Jewish family in August of in Queens, New York, Brill and his family desired better for him educationally. In his younger years Brill studied at the Deerfield Academy in Massachusetts, where he resided as a boarder at the school. From there he attended Yale and Yale Law School, after which he used his training in both law and journalism to begin to fight the wrongs of the system through a countless variety of media resources.
He has been on several talk shows and granted countless interviews in order to put his points on the table. One such interview, with motherjones. It impacted him greatly , particularly on the morning of the 12th, the day after the attacks. This prompted him to observe and consider all that the nation did to try and get things back to normal as quickly as possible.
It also talks about how things, in many aspects, have taken quite an opposite direction from that which was intended. Also, the change in the American people and the level of apprehension and fear felt since then is unprecedented.
He discusses all of this in an in-depth interview with Bill Moyers on April 18, It consisted of 26, words, which was the longest story ever printed by the magazine at the time. In Brill released a longer version and published it as a book.
Brill stated that our law did nothing to take control of the outrageous costs of healthcare and only looked at broadening coverage ranges. Brill feels that this, and the outrageous cost of medicine in America, is directly due to the issue above. In regard to being a writer, Brill has a word or two to say. He admits, in an interview with Sara Kiff and Vox. Subsequently, in November of , Mr. Brill became a contributing editor for Newsweek magazine.
That ended up being his first big-time gig with a major periodical news publication. Ralph Baxter : Right. All the same and they were on a bulletin board. Some of them must have great litigation departments versus corporate departments.
My Yale Law School education was deep enough so that I knew there was a difference between litigation and corporate law. I had grasped that. So I decided I am going to write something about law firms and I started asking around and found out that there were these two guys in New York, one of whom would graduate at the top of his class from NYU, the other at the top of his class from Harvard but they were both Jewish and neither of them were offered jobs at any of the white-shoe firms.
So I did this article in New York Magazine about Joe Flom and Martin Lipton and Skadden Arps and Wachtell Lipton and said that in 10 or 15 years, these guys are going to be at the top of the heap in terms of the success, business success of their firms and that obviously stirred a lot of interest.
And the interest was such that I decided that there could be a magazine not about law, not about tax law, trust in the states or litigation or Delaware Law, but a magazine about the business of law firms, which no one was doing.
There was just nothing about it. Ralph Baxter: So how did you — what was it about Marty Lipton and Joe Flom and what they were doing that caused you with no experience in practicing law or in the world of law to think they were going to be top of the heap?
Steven Brill: Well in part it was because by definition they were engaged in bet your company fights, and they had developed a real specialty in it. Joe has since passed away. They recruited brilliant people and they had this specialty in something that the investment banks and target corporations were rating corporations had to have, and they — before the Wall Street firms managed to look up and notice, they basically had a near duopoly on that practice.
Ralph Baxter: Right. Ralph Baxter: And these are two interesting characters that you happen to manifest. Steven Brill: Well, then it turns out, there are all these interesting stories. And I called him and he said, well why is that interesting. I said well, let me decide that. Lawyers at the time basically took the admonition against self-promotion. Remember, this was at the time, it was just after the Bates case and lawyers were allowed to advertise.
I think that was So, if you think about it, you had people my age coming out of law school or recently out of law school being recruited by law firms and they had no idea what these firms were about. If you ask people that day would you rather work at Skadden Arps or Finley, Kumble, they would have no idea what you were talking.
They have no way to tell the difference. Ralph Baxter: So this, you are not exaggerating. Steven Brill: Yeah, I mean just writ large, these are big businesses. And it was just seen as unusual to use a euphemism that any reporters were asking, but I was able to gather what became a stellar group of reporters who just love doing this for the challenge.
Ralph Baxter: So when did you make the decision that you were going to create a magazine? And guess what, it often takes a lot more than 45 minutes. Ralph Baxter: You know now why they were so ready to invest in this magazine that you were about to start? So off you go. You create The American Lawyer magazine, what were some of the challenges you faced at the beginning? And then they got it. Ralph Baxter: The idea that somewhere in some large organization there is somebody who might share some inside information with you.
There were two firms that were seeing basically by everyone in the world is relatively interchangeable in Los Angeles, two major firms, and I had had a law school classmate and friend who were each corporate partners at one of those two firms. Show all 9 episodes. Hide Show Additional Crew 2 credits. Hide Show Self 4 credits. Deeds Related Videos. Alternate Names: Steve Brill. Spouse: Ruthanna Hopper.
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