LegalEagle
Devin James Stone (born 1983/1984)[2] is an American lawyer and YouTuber. He is known for his channel, LegalEagle, where he reviews films and television shows to discuss the level of accuracy of their depictions of the law and courtroom procedure, and to discuss the legal issues raised by those works. He also talks about current legal cases and explains how US law works in respect to them. He operates a law school exam prep company called Legal Eagle Prep.[3]
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Born | San Francisco | |||||||||
Education | University of California, Los Angeles (BA, JD) | |||||||||
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Website | stonelawdc | |||||||||
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Genre | Law | |||||||||
Subscribers | 3.03 million[1] | |||||||||
Total views | 689 million[1] | |||||||||
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Last updated: October 9, 2023 |
Biography
Stone graduated from the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) in 2005 with a Bachelor of Arts degree in political science. He then attended the UCLA School of Law, graduating in 2008 with a Juris Doctor degree. As a law student, he was a member of the UCLA Entertainment Law Review and participated in the UCLA Mock Trial Program and the UCLA Moot Court Honors Program.[4] Stone was a judicial extern for Arthur Lawrence Alarcón, a senior judge for the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, and later worked as an associate at national firms Barnes & Thornburg and Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP.[4]
In February 2020, Stone filed a series of Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests asking a federal judge to order the Trump administration to produce the information removed from former national security advisor John Bolton's book, The Room Where It Happened, and to reveal details concerning the underlying prepublication review process. The National Security Council (NSC) Records Access and Information Security Management Directorate (RAISMD) were named as the primary defendants in the action, along with the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), National Archives and Records Administration, and Departments of Defense, Justice, and State.[5][6] The suit was dismissed on March 18, 2021.[7]
In September 2021, Stone became an adjunct law professor at Georgetown University.[4]
Accolades
LegalEagle was nominated for the best commentary channel at 2022's 12th Streamy Awards.[8]
References
- "About LegalEagle". YouTube.
- Real Lawyer Reacts to The Little Mermaid, retrieved 15 July 2023 "Disney's original Little Mermaid came out in 1989, and even though I was five at the time..."
- Legal Eagle Prep
- "Devin J. Stone, Esq". Stone Law DC. Archived from the original on 21 January 2021. Retrieved 22 January 2021.
- Lambe, Jerry (25 June 2020). "Lawsuit Seeks to Unearth Details Behind Trump Administration's Review of Bolton Book". Law&Crime. Archived from the original on 16 January 2021. Retrieved 22 January 2021.
- Gerstein, Josh (25 June 2020). "New lawsuit demands details on Bolton book review". Politico. Archived from the original on 29 January 2021. Retrieved 22 January 2021.
- "Legal Eagle, LLC v. Nat'l Sec. Council Recs. Access & Info. Sec. Mgmt. Directorate, No. 20-1732, 2021 WL 1061222 (D.D.C. Mar. 18, 2021) (Contreras, J.)". www.justice.gov. 19 April 2021. Archived from the original on 18 August 2022. Retrieved 5 June 2022.
- "12th Annual Streamy Nominees". The Streamy Awards. Retrieved 18 November 2022.