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Steven Brill (law writer)
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Steven Brill (born August 22, 1950 in Queens, New York) is best known as the founder of Clear[1], the New York-based startup airport security fast-pass company. He is the creator of a now-defunct magazine with a critical eye to the media, Brill's Content[2]. He also launched Contentville.com, which was to be a clearinghouse for the buying and selling of web text, news, and info of all sorts. The Contentville.com concept crashed with the dot-coms in 2001. For a time he was a columnist for Newsweek. Brill also founded CourtTV and American Lawyer magazine. He is the author of The Teamsters (1978) and After: How America Confronted the September 12th Era (2003).
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Brill is a graduate of Deerfield Academy and Yale University (BA, 1972; JD, 1975). He is married and has three children. He currently resides in New York City and Bedford, New York.[3]
- 1978, October: Teamsters (ISBN 0-671-22771-8) is published
- 1987: The American Lawyer launches
- 1991: CourtTV launches[4]
- 1998, August: Brill's Content launches
- 2000, July: Contentville launches[5]
- 2001: Brill begins teaching an advanced journalism course at Yale[6]
- 2001, November: Brill signs on as a contributing editor for Newsweek[4]
- 2003: Verified Identity Pass is founded
- 2003, April: After: How America Confronted the September 12 Era (ISBN 0-7432-3709-9) is published
- 2003, October: The America Prepared Campaign is launched[7]
- 2003, Fall: Founded Verified Identity Pass/ Clear Registered Traveler
Brill's Content was a media watchdog publication that ceased publication in 2001.[8]
His latest venture is Clear, a subsidiary of Verified Identity Pass, Inc.[9] It allows travelers to get through airport security quickly with an annual subscription to the program and pre-screening.
"Journalists are probably the only people on the planet who make lawyers look good."[10]
According to Michael Wolff,
| “ | The magazine New York Woman ran a story about the worst places for women to work, flatly stating that the story did not include jobs "inherently loathsome for men and for women, such as working in a subway booth, scrubbing floors or working for Steven Brill, the notoriously bullying editor of American Lawyer."[10] | ” |
- ^ flyclear.com
- ^ Downsizings, Oct. 16-31, 2001
- ^ palm eBook Store: Author: Steven Brill in the Yale Alumni Magazine
- ^ a b Brill is born again as a Newsweek columnist
- ^ Listen Up Contentville - Authors Win Lawduit in ForeWord Magazine]
- ^ Yale's content enhanced by Brill in Yale Alumni Magazine
- ^ The America Prepared Campaign at ClearChannel
- ^ Brill's Content Closes and Primedia Acquires Inside The Write News
- ^ Clear Corporate Information
- ^ a b as quoted in Wolff's Brill's Content by Michael Wolff
- FlyClear CEO message by Steven Brill