Award-winning journalist and attorney Lisa Bloom solo hosts a daily, live, national television program,  Lisa Bloom:  Open Court, on In Session on truTV (formerly Court TV), which airs Mondays through Fridays from 9 to 11 a.m., covering the hottest trials and crime and justice stories in the news.  She's also a CBS News Legal Analyst who appears frequently on The Early Show, and a daily legal expert on CNN’s prime time shows.  In the last year alone, Lisa has guest hosted Larry King Live, and appeared on Oprah, Dr. Phil, Montel Williams, and Maury.  It is not unusual for Lisa to make six or more appearances on American television in one day.  Blog readers can find her thoughts online at www.CNN.com/crime and she is an invited blogger on Anderson Cooper’s site, www.CNN.com/360blog.

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 (and most minor) crime and justice story of our time, including OJ I, II and III; 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 Rae Carruth murder trials; and the Jayson Williams and Martha Stewart cases.  In 2007 Lisa won a prestigious Telly award for her coverage of the Rhode Island nightclub fire criminal trial.

Fielding daily requests for television and radio appearances, Lisa appears constantly as a legal expert on nearly every network and cable television news show that covers crime and justice.  She's been on Nightline, Primetime, Today, Good Morning America, The Early Show, Extra, Access Hollywood, Celebrity Justice, Inside Edition, the Insider, Tony Danza, Rosie O'Donnell, Leeza, Entertainment Tonight, Larry King Live, Anderson Cooper 360, Paula Zahn, Hannity & Colmes, The O’Reilly Factor, Rita Cosby:  Live and Direct, The Abrams Report, and too many others to name.

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.

She has published numerous popular and scholarly articles 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 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.

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 and engaging speaking style at corporate and academic events.

Running, mountain climbing, skiing, kayaking, yoga, reading and word games are Bloom’s current off-duty passions. She has summited Mount Kilimanjaro, backpacked the Appalachian Trail in New Hampshire and the Inca Trail in Peru, completed the New York City Marathon in 2005 and the Pocono Marathon in 2006.  Her 3:50 finish in the latter qualifies her to run the prestigious Boston marathon in 2008.  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 and Laos.

Lisa currently lives in New York City, and considers the Pocono Mountains of eastern Pennsylvania her adopted home town.  As a New York Cares volunteer, she frequently gives her time to local soup kitchens and homes for the elderly.