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ALAN SCHNURMAN
Founder and Host, Lawline TV & Founder, Lawline.com

Alan Schnurman is known to his peers as "the Larry King of Law" and "the 21st century entrepreneur of the legal profession." He hosts the popular Lawline TV show and recently launched Lawline.com, the Internet's Legal Broadcast Network," which he is building into the largest law-related web site in the world.

Here are some interesting facts about Alan Schnurman:

• In 1983, Schnurman launched Lawline, the longest running legal television show in the United States.
• Several judges have told Schnurman that they plan their Sundays around the show.
• Lawline is the first legal talk show in the Metro NY area. It plays on various cable stations in New York, New Jersey and Connecticut, reaching 4 million homes.
• Lawline is going national. The show was just tapped by PBS Adult Learning Services to provide its programming for nationwide distribution via satellite to adult learners, community colleges and educational and nonprofit institutions. Distribution will begin Fall 2000.
• Schnurman earned his nickname as "Larry King of Law" as host of the popular Lawline TV show, where he interviews prominent lawyers and judges and makes the show lively with his natural enthusiastic and inquisitive personality.
• From Lawline, he started Lawline.com, a leading online broadcaster of law-related media programming in 1999. He plans to make Lawline.com the top broadcaster of law-related media programming on the web and the largest law-related web site in the world.
• Lawline.com is the main supplier of Yahoo's Legal Broadcasting Channel.
• Lawline.com was one of the first web sites to be accredited to offer CLE courses in New York State. Schnurman plans to repeat this "first" in states nationwide. He is already in discussions with CA, FL, TX, MO, AND VA.
• CLE credits can be taken on Lawlline.com at health clubs, such as CRUNCH, that provide Internet access with audio at exercise machines. (We have a list of these gyms.)
• Consumers are welcome on the site where they can take advantage of expert's insights into relevant issues, such as sexual harassment, current matrimonial law, a fix on the mob (for those who want to get their "Soprano" fix while the popular show is in hiatus), estate planning, how to negotiate, working mothers losing custody, how to select the best lawyer, should I sue my doctor, etc.
• Schnurman also launched in 1999 Lawline.com radio, the only online radio program dedicated to legal professionals. It is available on the Lawline.com site 24 hours a day, 7 days a week on demand.
• Lawline.com radio is forming a Negotiation Channel with the person the Wall Street Journal calls the "Father of Negotiations," Gerard Nierenberg, the author of numerous books and host of many seminars on the art of negotiation.
• Schnurman is currently building a Lawline.com radio channel that will highlight the new area of electronic discovery, which became a key issue in the Microsoft government case. Electronic evidence, such as email messages, are prime to become important factors in all kinds of cases - divorce, custody, business, criminal and civil.
• An unabashed marketing maven, Schnurman is a frequent speaker on Marketing Law and earned his second nickname, "the 21st century entrepreneur of the legal profession," from Pamela Liapakis, the former president of the American Trail Lawyers Association.
• Alan Schnurman also has a highly successful career as a personal-injury attorney and trial lawyer with Zalman & Schnurman. He is a tireless and popular committee chairman and volunteer in the legal community.
• Schnurman has been a vegetarian for 22 years and is an avid marathon runner. He recently returned from a two-week, 280-mile white-water rafting trip through the Grand Canyon - no phones, faxes, email, newspapers or TV appearances for 14 days.

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Judy Stein
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judy@lawline.com