William Bratton
LAPD Chief
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Rikki Klieman
Court TV Anchor
Best Sellin Author & Americas's Premier Trial Attorney Show
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LAPD Chief William Bratton and his beautiful and accomplished wife, Court TV Anchor/ Top Criminal Defense Lawyer Rikki Klieman share center stage in this rare and unique look inside their successful careers and their successful marriage as of one of America's best known and most respected couples.
The Chief discusses what has made him one of America's best known and most successful police chiefs in three
of America's largest and most challenging cities, New York, Boston and now Los Angeles. As police commissioner and a police chief, he shares his successful strategies that his hand-picked team developed that are in major part responsible for a dramatic reduction in crime. Law enforcement officials around the country use his record of achievement as their textbook study of success. Chief Bratton is one of the finest, most respected, and most intelligent law enforcement officers that America has produced. He has brought fresh insights and approaches to difficult and sensitive problems in law enforcement.
His strategies have not only made our cities safer, but also raised the morale of the men and women in the departments he headed. He has proven to be a highly successful crime fighter and an excellent leader in each city and his accomplishments that have improved the quality of life are a national success story.
Rikki Klieman speaks candidly about her amazing career as one of America's most successful and well known criminal defense attorney, being a Court TV Anchor, but also her evolution to realizing how a successful professional can simultaneously have a well balanced personal life, even when married to another very high profile public figure like her husband, LAPD Chief Bill Bratton.
In 1983 she was named one of the five most outstanding women trial lawyers in the country by Time magazine. She is often the subject of magazine and newspaper articles and she was profiled by CNN. She has been featured on television shows including Today, Good Morning America, Miller's Court and the evening news. She has been interviewed on numerous radio and television programs on various aspects of criminal and civil law and procedure including, among others, 60 Minutes, The McLaughlin Group, 20/20 and a Nightline Special Report on rape hosted by Peter Jennings.
Ms. Klieman served on the Advisory Committee to the U.S. Supreme Court on the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure, the Board of Directors of the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers and the Board of Visitors for Boston University School of Law. She was a member of the American Bar Association's National Conference of Lawyers and Representatives of the Media. She currently serves on the Council of 100 - a mentoring organization of outstanding alumnae for the benefit of collegiate women - at Northwestern University.
Rikki is an accomplished actor in Television Entertainment with frequent appearances on NBC's Las Vegas;
ABC's NYPD Blue; CBS's Dr Vegas; ABC's The DA, Court TV, and many more.
Together the Chief and Rikki discuss what makes their marriage and their personal partnership a successful marriage. They discuss what makes a strong, healthy marriage, and the principles they share can teach partners new and successful strategies for making their marriage work. Some of those principles are:
Respecting each Other's Identity and Uniqueness; Practicing Effective Communication; Maintaining a Proper Balance between Work and your personal life; Continually Showing Respect and Love for one another; Intellectual stimulation; Emotional trust; and most importantly the ever constant emotional support to encourage each other's personal development, career achievements, and continued growth as a team, a real couple, and as best friends. |
Rocky J. Delgadillo
Los Angeles City Attorney
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LA's City Attorney, speaks about his signature program, "The neighborhood Prosecutor Program"
and "Anti Gang Plan", Reducing gang activity in LA.
In this special series, Rocky Delgadillo, a native of the Eastside of Los Angeles, who became the highest-ranking Latino to win citywide office in more than 100 years when he was elected Los Angeles City Attorney on June 5, 2001, and re-elected in March 2005 to a second four-year term, discusses the many effective programs he and his office have created, sponsored and implemented for Los Angeles which have made our city have Safer Neighborhoods and Saved Taxpayer Dollars. Some of the other many successful programs he and his office have created are:
1. Rocky's signature program: The "Neighborhood Prosecutor Program". For the first time in the city's history, prosecutors work in the neighborhoods, get to know residents on a first-name basis, and attack quality-of-life crimes where they occur. Neighborhood Prosecutors work with residents, elected officials and city agencies to drastically cut illegal dumping, graffiti and illegal street racing, to name a few of the problems. The program won a city Productivity Award in 2002 for its first-year achievements.
2. America's Most Effective Anti-Gang Legislation
3. New Crackdown on LAX Crime
4. Homeless Dumping Legislation
In his first term, Rocky more than tripled the number of gang injunctions in the city to 22, contributing to a steep decline in crime in the affected areas. At the same time, effective legal work by his team helped bring to a close the Rampart scandal at a substantial savings. When the case broke in 2000, it was projected that some 120 cases could cost Los Angeles as much as $125 million in liability payments. Four years later, Rocky's team had negotiated settlements totaling $70 million in more than 200 cases, a projected $55 million savings over the next several years. He urged the city to apply to the hiring and training of new police officers.
Liability savings under Rocky extended beyond the Rampart scandal. General liability payouts in Rocky's first term fell by 60 percent, to $33 million.
Rocky's efforts went well beyond fiscal responsibility. Education and after-school activities help deter teens from joining gangs. That's why Rocky created Operation Bright Future, a tough anti-truancy program that targets sixth-graders with excessive absences. Operation Bright Future teaches parents about the importance of education and ultimately holds parents legally responsible for making sure their kids go to school.
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Paul Henderson
San Francisco DA Office
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The San Francisco District Attorneys Office - Featuring Paul Henderson - Assistant DA
& Managing Attorney.
In this special series, Paul Henderson, who supervises the trial team of the San Francisco District Attorney's Office discusses the many responsibilities of his office. Paul is a frequent legal analyst for both FOX News, CNN, the Wall St Journal, USA Today, and the San Francisco Chronicle. As an advocate for others, Paul has built a career out of standing up for those disenfranchised from opportunities of success, and works tirelessly to create opportunities for disadvantaged people of color. Paul speaks about his role on the national faculty for the Dept. of Justice where he is committed to training other attorneys and municipalities about innovative criminal justice models. In this role he travels around the country to train and lecture within the legal professional. As a seasoned prosecutor, Paul discusses how to handle every type of case in the criminal justice system. As Paul loves to say, "I represent the people and I am proud to do so!"
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Linda Fairstein / Best selling Author / Famed NY Prosecutor
Winston McKesson LA's "Super Lawyer" Criminal Defense
John Manly Manly, McGuire & Stewart
Linda Fairstein, Best Selling Author & Famed NY prosecutor of NY "Sex-Crimes" unit, made famous on "Law & Order Special Victims Unit" TV series, joins John Manly & Pat Wall, Manly McGuire & Stewart-Victims Rights Activists & Lawyers in the Academy Award Film Nominee "Deliver Us from Evil", and Winston McKesson- Famed LA based Criminal Defense "Super Lawyer" in a memorable discussion of "Law & Order" in today's American society.
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USA Network's, Emmy Award Winning TV Detective, "Adrian Monk's" ,
Lee Goldberg meets
"Thomas A. Mesereau, Jr." Criminal Defense Lawyer Extraordinaire.
Emmy Award & Golden Globe Winner, Adrian Monk is a brilliant TV detective, albeit with obsessive-compulsive disorder. Although he's able to solve baffling murders for the San Francisco Police, his phobias and personality ticks leave him utterly incapable of handling even the simplest aspects of day-to-day life.
Thomas A. Mesereau, Jr.'s courtroom brilliance, proving the "seemingly" guilty ...innocent ˇ¦demonstrates over and over again, his excellence as America's leading trial lawyer with a special devotion to equal justice for all.
On this amazing show, Lee Goldberg, USA Network's Monk's series, brilliant writer, shares his thoughts on crime solving and winning against impossible odds with Tom Mesereau, the modern day master of the courtroom, both in some serious and lighthearted memorable TV moments.
Tom Mesereau, Partner, at Mesereau & Yu, LLP is one of the most celebrated trial lawyers in America. He acquitted music legend Michael Jackson of all counts in a highly publicized trial
in Santa Maria, California. Tom's reputation as a trial lawyer
is unparalleled.
Barbara Walters named Tom, one of the year's "Ten Most Fascinating People," for his trial excellence and commitment
to representing the underprivileged. GQ Magazine named
him one of its "Men of the Year," Tom along with Senator
Hillary Rodham Clinton, received the "President's Award".
Tom has received the "Humanitarian Award" from The National Association of Blacks in Criminal Justice (NABCJ), "In
Recognition Of Your Ongoing Commitment To Justice for All."
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In 1979, Dr. Lois Lee abandoned a promising career as a scholar and social policy expert, devised a plan, and took action. Since that time, she has been rescuing America's children from the ravages of street prostitution. Her single-minded efforts and dedication led to the development of Children of the Night, where she still serves as president.
In 1981, Dr. Lee opened the first drop-in center for children in Hollywood, pioneering the establishment of similar programs for children on the streets. Today, many traditional social service agencies across the country offer drop-in services to children on the street because of her early work.
Realizing that child prostitutes need more comprehensive care, Dr. Lee opened the Children of the Night home in 1992, now considered a prototype for programs dealing with child prostitution. Dr. Lee continues to lead the field in the treatment of child prostitutes, also passing the California Bar Examination in 1996 and becoming a member of the California Bar Association in order to pursue legal avenues to help child prostitutes.
Dr. Lee is an instructor at the Los Angeles Police Department's Police Academy, training juvenile detectives in how to detect, treat, and rescue children involved in prostitution. She frequently serves as an expert witness for federal and state prosecutors enforcing laws against dangerous pimps. She first came to the attention of the news media and homicide detectives during the "Hillside Strangler" investigation, where her efforts led to the prosecution of Angelo Buono for these murders.
Her Ph.D. dissertation 'The Pimp and His Game' is relied on by vice officers, district attorneys, and U.S. attorneys nationwide as a guide for their treatment of child prostitutes, for jury education, and for the prosecution of dangerous pimps.
Dr. Lee has received countless awards for her work, the most prestigious being the President's Volunteer Action Award, which was presented to her by President Ronald Reagan at the White House in 1984. She has been profiled on national television, including CBS' 60 Minutes, and her work was depicted in a CBS TV movie entitled Children of the Night. Her humanitarian work has been recognized with a National Caring Award and a permanent memorial portrait in the Frederick Douglass Museum and Hall of Fame for Caring Americans in Washington, D.C. Dr. Lee is an extraordinary woman who has utilized her courage, compassion, and wisdom to ensure that child prostitutes can get the help and hope they so desperately need.
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This in an indepth interview of one of America's most astute TV news journalists, Jane Velez-Mitchell who reported for the nationally syndicated Warner Brothers/Telepictures show "Celebrity Justice." She is now seen commenting on high-profile cases for CNN, MSNBC, Court TV, Fox News and other national cable TV shows. She has also frequently guest hosted for Nancy Grace on her widely watched CNN Headline News show.
Jane has just completed a non-fiction book for Touchstone, a division of Simon & Schuster, entitled "Secrets Can Be Murder: What America's Most Sensational Crimes Tell Us About Ourselves."
Jane asks a probing, disturbing question: Are killers like Scott Peterson and Andrea Yates all that different from the rest of us? What kind of monster would do this? When journalists break the story of a child who's been kidnapped, a young woman who's been brutally raped, or a family who's been slaughtered, that's the question most of us ask. Secrets Can Be Murder exposes the hidden motivations behind the most sinister acts of recent times, with a behind-closed-doors look at these sensational crimes that will astound you.
Jane shares some shocking news! Many of us possess the same trusting nature as victims and carry around the same secrets as criminals -- whether it's debt, infidelity, or fetishes. With fascinating new insights from investigators and psychologists plus the friends and family of both the victims and the perpetrators, Secrets Can Be Murder illustrates just how little separates our so-called normal lives from that of a sociopath -- and how you can stay out of harm's way.
Jane is the recipient of a Los Angeles Emmy Award and a New York Emmy Award. The KCAL-TV newscasts she co-anchored won three Southern California Golden Mike Awards and an Emmy. She also wrote, directed and produced "Dancing Through Life," an award-winning documentary.
While working at "Celebrity Justice," Velez-Mitchell's reporting earned the show two Genesis Awards from the Humane Society of the United States.
Get more information about Jane and her new book @ www.secretscanbemurder.com
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Mordechai Orian, CEO, Global Horizon; David Klehm, Attorney & Founder of www.illegalemployers.org; and Jason Mrochek, CEO & Founder of www.WeHireAliens.com discuss the economic and legal impact of lax enforcement of immigration law. They and other businesses are taking their fight against illegal immigration to court, accusing competitors of hiring illegal workers to achieve an unfair advantage and violating thestate's unfair-competition laws. Discover who and how many major Fortune 1000 companies undercut American jobs by hiring illegal aliens
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Why should you care about illegal immigration?
Take 30 minutes and find out
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Protecting our Senior Citizens against Elder Abuse and providing information where senior citizens, their families, attorneys, social workers, and financial planners, can access information about elder law, Medicare, Medicaid, guardianship, estate planning, trusts and
the rights of the elderly and disabled is the top priority of our guests:
LA County Supervisor Yvonne Burke
Assemblymember Lloyd Levine
Paul Cohen, Elder Law attorney
Marshall Oldman, Estate & Tax Planning attorney
Dr Eve Wood, Psychiatrist and Bestselling author.
These experts discuss in this informative panel the scope of elder law, estate planning, long-term care, medicaid, medical directives, and nursing home issues.
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Chief Jacqueline Seabrooks of the Inglewood, California, Police Department is featured in an exciting, exclusive, in-depth and inside interview, discussing her career and commitment to justice.
Chief Seabrooks joined the Inglewood Police Department in October 2007 after serving the citizens of Santa Monica and the Santa Monica Police Department for over 24 years; she also served as a State Police Officer with the California State Police. Chief Seabrooks, a Los Angeles native, brings a wealth of knowledge and experience to Inglewood after having served in a number of capacities throughout her law enforcement career. With the Santa Monica Police Department, Chief Seabrooks served as the commanding officer for the Offices of Criminal Investigations, Operations, and Special Enforcement. She oversaw Operation Safe Streets, a multi-operational approach to reducing the gang crimes. She was instrumental in creating and implementing a cultural competencies program for police employees. As a result of her efforts, the Simon Wiesenthal Center's Museum of Tolerance was able to obtain POST certification for its ˇ°Tools for Toleranceˇ± program. Chief Seabrooks has a strong teaching and training background. She has taught law enforcement audiences across the country and provided recruit training at the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Academy. Chief Seabrooks has also served as an adjunct faculty member at areas colleges in the field of Criminal Justice.
Chief Seabrooks holds both Masters and Bachelor's degrees in Public Administration from CSU, Long Beach and CSU, Dominguez Hills. She is a graduate of the FBI's National Academy and the Senior Management Institute for Police.
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Brett Boyett
Keith Olsen
Deborah Wagnon
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Deborah Wagnon is featured in an exciting, exclusive, in-depth and inside interview, discussing
Brett Boyett is an exceptionally talented musician who has recently recorded several tracks with Keith Olsen (Fleetwood Mac, Heart, Foreigner, Pat Benetar, White Snake, etc.) and Chris James (Black Eyed Peas, Fergie, Hilary Duff). He has also had the chance to write songs for "The Fallen Heroes Fund," "The Make A Wish Foundation," and Legendary singer of the Miracles "Billy Griffin." Brett was a 2001 winner of the ASCAP "Demo to Deal," "The Advanced Songwriter Workshop," and "The ASCAP Mentorship Program." He has further had the opportunity to work with some of the best television and film composers in the business. Brett's worked on such shows as "Everybody Loves Raymond," "My Name Is Earl," "Friday Night Lights," "Center Of The Universe," "Moola," "The Guerrero Project," "The Great New Wonderful," "New York Dolls," and most recently "Viva Laughlin," among others. An artist and composer of exceptional skill, Brett continues to inspire fans around the world.
Joining Brett is Deborah Wagnon, who has worked with an international roster of many of the entertainment industry's leading recording artists, producers, screenwriters, authors, filmmakers, and songwriter/composers. Included among them are artists such as Gloria Estefan, Jon Secada, Olivia Newton-John, Reba McEntire, Travis Tritt, Lorrie Morgan, Randy Travis, John Berry, Deanna Carter, and Robert Earl Keen. Deborah also represents film and television projects, including the 2001 release "The Journey" with a musical soundtrack by major recording artists including Atlantic Records artist Edwin McCain, Indigo Girls, Hootie & The Blowfish and many others; Emmy-winning producer & director Nina Seavey's 2002 documentary "Ballad of Bering Strait" shot in Russia and the U.S., and London-based Principal Films currently producing a television documentary for initial broadcast in the U.S. Deborah further represents the fast-growing NWFL as league counsel for all entertainment matters, including television and corporate sponsorships. She has served as a consultant to Virgin Asia Ltd. for its U.S. entertainment activities, and was a member of the 2001 negotiation team which successfully concluded the major distribution deal between Universal and Univision, the largest U.S. Spanish language cable network.
Along with Brett and Deborah, Keith Olsen joins the program to discuss his many achievements in the recording industry. Early in his career, Keith found himself involved with many super talents touring in the folk rock circuit, like David Crosby, Roger McGuinn and Chris Hillman, among others. Keith also used his first hand knowledge of how production equipment is used, what is needed, and how to hopefully keep technology out of the way of creativity, to assemble a team of experts to develop their line of digital products. He additionally produces several albums per year for Pogologo Productions Group and gives his time and energy tirelessly to the "National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences" (NARAS) Producers & Engineers Wing, the mission of which he strongly believes is so necessary in this era of digital revolution. He currently serves on the P&E Steering Committee, P&E Advisory Council.
Keith was the bass player for The Music Machine, who later went on to producing, co-producing the Fleetwood Mac album Fleetwood Mac, which was released in 1975. His career has spanned decades and included many of the top 50 artists of the 80's, 90's, and 2000's. His award-winning career is well documented by numerous websites, books, and episodes of VH1's "Behind the Music".
You can contact Brett Boyett at www.brettboyett.com, Deborah Wagnon www.deborahwagnon.com, and Keith Olsen at www.pogologoproductions.com
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