About Lisa

“Feisty, articulate, and driven — she qualified last week for the Boston Marathon . . . a personal intensity and a fierce sense of outrage about women’s and civil rights, child welfare, and the abuse of power.”

Philadelphia Inquirer

Host of her own national live daily talk show on Court TV for eight years, Lisa is now a regular legal analyst on CBS News, CNN and HLN, appearing frequently on The Early Show, The Insider, Dr. Phil, Dr. Drew, The Situation Room, The Joy Behar Show, Issues with Jane Velez-Mitchell and many other shows. In addition, Lisa runs a prominent Los Angeles based general practice law firm, TheBloomFirm.com, representing celebrity clients and ordinary people seeking justice in their lives. A popular award-winning speaker to business, student and women’s audiences, Lisa has been interviewed by Barbara Walters, Oprah Winfrey, Larry King, Rachael Ray, Piers Morgan, Montel Williams, Julie Chen, Harry Smith, Matt Lauer, Diane Sawyer, Charlie Gibson,Tony Danza, Star Jones, Anderson Cooper, Wolf Blitzer, Bill O’Reilly, Shawn Hannity, Joe Scarborough, Tina Brown, Nancy Grace and many others in the United States, England, Ireland, Australia and throughout the English-speaking world.
Lisa’s first book, Think: Straight Talk for Women to Stay Smart in a Dumbed-Down World, published by Vanguard Books in the summer of 2011, became an instant New York Times bestseller and a favorite of critics. In a full page review, Elle Magazine raved: “Provocative, logical, funny, and relentlessly on-topic.”

 

Lisa’s Television Reporting and Commentary 

As a television legal analyst, Lisa is known for her in-depth analysis of headline-grabbing trials, hard-hitting and unbiased interviews of lawyers, crime victims, defendants and government officials, and gutsy, plain English opinions, Lisa has covered every major crime and justice story of our time, including the OJ Simpson trials; Britney Spears’ custody and mental illness battles; police brutality cases; the Duke rape scandal; the Enron corporate fraud trial; the Saddam Hussein crimes against humanity tribunal; the Michael Jackson child molestation case; the Scott Peterson, Robert Blake and Casey Anthony murder trials; and the Jayson Williams and Martha Stewart cases, and the California and federal gay marriage and “don’t ask, don’t tell” constitutional cases. Lisa’s passion is international war crimes tribunals, which seek to bring to justice perpetrators of genocide and other crimes against humanity.

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Lisa’s Law Practice

Never afraid of a fight, as a trial lawyer Lisa has taken on David-and-Goliath battles on behalf of the vulnerable against some of the most powerful forces in our culture, including suing the Boy Scouts of America on behalf of a girl who wanted to become a Scout; the Los Angeles Police Department on behalf of a use of force expert in the Rodney King beating trial; one of the largest churches in the world for a boy who was abused at a church summer camp; a powerful Fortune 500 company on behalf of a wheelchair-bound employee who had been harassed because of his disability; and many celebrities and prominent figures in business and politics in sexual harassment cases, including a sitting Los Angeles judge. Lisa’s work has set legal precedent on important social issues from some of the first cases involving the rights of AIDS patients to cases of repressed memory of child sexual abuse survivors.Lisa represented numerous celebrities, including Michael Lohan in his legal battle to save and protect his daughter, actress Lindsay Lohan; Oksana Grigorieva in her domestic violence case against actor Mel Gibson; Real Housewives of D.C. reality stars Tareq and Michaele Salahi who were the subjects of a federal grand jury investigation (they were never charged); Double Exposure reality starsMarkus Klinko and Indrani as witnesses in a high profile federal trial; television host Lara Spencer in a personal matter; and many others who choose to keep their identities confidential.

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Lisa’s Writing

The Seattle Post-Intelligencer said, “Think: Straight Talk for Women to Stay Smart in a Dumbed-Down World is this year’s light bulb moment for women!” Review Broads insisted: “If you read ONE book this year, just ONE, read this one. Please.” Kirkus called Think “A wake-up call for women who have succumbed to a culture of mediocrity.” Susan Braudy wrote in the Huffington Post, “Brilliantly and entertainingly argued. . . . Buy this book. You’ll be entertained and educated.”

Passionate word of mouth from readers and rave reviews propelled Lisa’s book, Think, onto the New York Times bestseller list.  The Seattle Post-Intelligencer said, “Think: Straight Talk for Women to Stay Smart in a Dumbed-Down World is this year’s light bulb moment for women!” Review Broads insisted: “If you read ONE book this year, just ONE, read this one. Please.” Kirkus called Think “A wake-up call for women who have succumbed to a culture of mediocrity.” Susan Braudy wrote in the Huffington Post, “Brilliantly and entertainingly argued. . . . Buy this book. You’ll be entertained and educated.”  Lisa has performed many book readings with high school, college and book groups, and has been interviewed on hundreds of television and radio shows all over the world about her provocative thesis.

In addition to writing her book, Think, Lisa has published numerous popular and scholarly articles on CNN.com, AOL.com, and in The Los Angeles Times, Family Circle, The National Law Journal, ABA Journal, NYU Journal of Law and Social Change, Berkeley Women’s Law Journal, NYU Journal of International Law, and many other outlets on topics such as gay marriage, international law, legalizing prostitution, and families of child molesters’ duty to warn. She has been profiled, featured and quoted in many publications, including The New York Times, Elle, TV Guide, the Washington Post, Television Week, the New York Post, Philadelphia Inquirer, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Ladies’ Home Journal, Variety, Hollywood Reporter, Electronic Media, Where Were You on 9-11, CNN.com, and she is profiled in Who’s Who in American Law.

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Lisa’s Public Speaking

Public speaking is a particular passion to Lisa, and has been since her high school days, when she won numerous awards for expository and persuasive speaking, and was a California state speech finalist. Lisa graduated early and phi beta kappa from UCLA, where she was National College Debate Champion, finishing first place in the largest and most prestigious national college debate league. At Yale Law School she won first place in the highly competitive Moot Court competition, judged by soon-to-be-special-prosecutor Kenneth Starr. Well received by business and professional audiences, Lisa is known for her lively, funny and engaging speaking style at corporate and academic events. Lisa has delivered college commencement addresses recently at The University of Pennsylvania, New York University, and Los Angeles City College, and she has been honored as a speaker and business leader with the Compass Award by the Women’s Leadership Exchange.

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R & R

International travel, running, mountain climbing, skiing, kayaking, yoga, reading and word games are Lisa’s off-duty passions. She has summited Mount Kilimanjaro, backpacked the Appalachian Trail in New Hampshire and the Inca Trail in Peru, and completed the New York City Marathon and the Pocono Marathon. Her 3:50 finish in the latter qualified her to run the prestigious Boston marathon. She’s traveled to England, Ireland, France, Italy, Spain, Canada, Israel, Egypt, Turkey, Tanzania, Mexico, Peru, Chile, Costa Rica, Belize, the Caribbean, Hong Kong, Japan, Thailand, Indonesia, India, Cambodia, Laos, Nicaragua, Morocco, Fiji, Argentina, Uruguay, Switzerland, Croatia, and Greece. Lisa is the proud mom of two young adult children, an animal lover, a lifetime vegetarian, and now vegan. She lives with her fiance and rescue dogs in Los Angeles.

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