Lisa Bloom: Open Court
Weekdays 9-11am E/P

Lisa Bloom anchors In Session’s daytime trial coverage program Open Court. Prior to joining the network as a full-time broadcast journalist in 2001, she was a co-star of Fox’s Power of Attorney, a popular program in which real attorneys argued real cases in an unscripted courtroom setting.

After graduating with honors from Yale Law School in 1986, Bloom was a civil rights lawyer, litigating some of the most controversial social issues of our time. Following in the footsteps of her mother, well-known feminist attorney Gloria Allred, she has fought against the mighty on behalf of the weak and the powerless many times.

Providing in-depth analysis of the headline-grabbing trials and conducting tough interviews of lawyers, crime victims, defendants and community activists, she has covered the major crime and justice stories of our time, including the Michael Jackson child molestation case; the Scott Peterson, Robert Blake and Rae Carruth murder trials; the Jayson Williams and Martha Stewart cases; the Danielle Van Dam kidnapping and murder trial; the trial of the hockey dad who beat another father to death at a children’s ice rink; the case of a prominent rabbi accused of hiring a hit man to murder his wife; and an emotional custody battle involving a transsexual father.

Bloom has appeared as an expert on virtually every network and cable television news show offering analysis and debating the cutting-edge legal issues of the day. Bloom has informed millions on a wide variety of news, political and legal topics from terrorist trials to corporate crime to sexual harassment and child abuse.

Bloom’s work in the courtroom set legal precedent on important social issues including some of the first cases involving the rights of AIDS patients, as well as repressed memory cases in child sexual abuse.

She has published numerous popular and scholarly articles in various newspapers and legal publications on topics such as international law, legalizing prostitution, and families of child molesters’ duty to warn.

Bloom has been active in public speaking since high school, when she won numerous public speaking awards for expository and persuasive speaking, and was a California state speech finalist. She graduated phi beta kappa from UCLA, where she was National College Debate Champion, finishing first place in the largest and most prestigious 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. She is admitted to the Bars of both New York and California.

She summited Mount Kilimanjaro, backpacked the Appalachian Trail in New Hampshire and the Inca Trail in Peru, and completed her first New York City marathon in 2005.