how do you become a tv lawyer Forum

[90convoy]

how do you become a legal analyst for the big news networks...seems cool being on tv and everything

anybody know how or have friends that do it? is this a realistic expectation?

[fats provolone]

go to yale and don't have any misdemeanors on your criminal record

[DavidConeSplitter]

Sports and entertainment law society DUH

[90convoy]

go to yale and don't have any misdemeanors on your criminal record

i see what you did there

[Kratos]

Get work experience before you go to law school

[90convoy]

Get work experience before you go to law school

actually considering it depending on how this cycle goes

[earthabides]

Be involved in a high-profile case.

Source: Zimmerman's lawyer is now a Legal Analyst for CNN

[Ron Don Volante]

Yeah it's totally easy to be Jeffery Toobin OP. Dude's a schmuck...

[Kratos]

Be involved in a high-profile case.

Source: Zimmerman's lawyer is now a Legal Analyst for CNN

Conversely, be a total fucking idiot with loud shit opinions.

[Nat Sherman]

One of my previous professors would be the legal corespondent for a major network when a certain issue came up. So extrapolating from my knowledge on the subject you have to: go to Yale, become an academic at a respected school that sounds good when they introduce you on TV (this is the hard part, Vanderbilt, BU, and probably any UC school have more lay prestige to the uninformed American public than U Penn State), then dedicate 20-30 years becoming in an expert in a field you predict will be a relevant topic of discussion for some pop culture issue some time around 2040 where you'll be the number 1 go to guy to talk about it.

[FSK]

1) Be very attractive, and preferably a white male
2) Get pubic renown for your expertise in flaw
3) Call up your buds at the networks and ask.

[earthabides]

Be involved in a high-profile case.

Source: Zimmerman's lawyer is now a Legal Analyst for CNN

Conversely, be a total fucking idiot with loud shit opinions.

She is the worst. I can't believe she is actually a legal commentator. Her coverage of the trial was horrible.

[90convoy]

so it's pretty much luck. same as becoming an actor, singer, etc.

[FSK]

Be involved in a high-profile case.

Source: Zimmerman's lawyer is now a Legal Analyst for CNN

Conversely, be a total fucking idiot with loud shit opinions.

She is the worst. I can't believe she is actually a legal commentator. Her coverage of the trial was horrible.

ARE Country likes her. She gets ratings.

[BVest]

Follow these steps: (1) Have a good friend from college become a producer. (2) Publish a book (quality immaterial).

[Mack.Hambleton]

just be a fictional one a la saul goodman, better pay and more fun