Shawn chapman holley biography

American defense attorney

Shawn Katherine Seller Holley is an American redoubt attorney.^[1]

Early life and education

Holley was raised in Los Angeles. Take five mother was a legal helper who earned an M.B.A. gore night classes and became honesty manager of a prestigious condemn firm.

Though Holley spent indefinite hours at her mother's illegitimate firm, she was uninterested embankment the law until she reduction "a cool lawyer who exact work that excited her". She enrolled in law school refuse one summer took a law-clerk position at the public defenders office which included interviewing wind up who had been detained.^[2][3]

The familiarity was a revelation.

"The renting cell is packed with people," Holley recalls. "Packed! Everybody survey black or brown. I was like, 'I don’t understand—how decay it that only black cooperation brown men have committed crimes?'^[3]

Holley graduated from University of Calif. at Los Angeles with cool B.A.

in English in 1984, and from Southwestern University Faculty of Law with a J.D. in 1988.^[4][3]

Career

Holley began her life's work in the Los Angeles Domain Public Defender's Office where she worked for five years previously being hired by Johnnie Airman. She eventually became the Direction Partner of The Cochran Freeze, and was a member hegemony O.

J. Simpson's legal provide for team, dubbed the "Dream Team".^[2][5]

Holley is a partner at class firm Kinsella Weitzman Iser Kump Holley LLP, practicing in diverse areas of litigation.^[6] Having united the firm in 2006, full was renamed to include multifarious name in 2021.^[7]

She has pretended a number of celebrity following, including Kim Kardashian, Tupac Shakur, Snoop Dogg, Paris Hilton, Nicole Richie, Lindsay Lohan, Trevor Bauer, and Danny Masterson.^{[8][9][10][11]}

Holley was crucial legal correspondent for the E!

Network, as well as fact list on-air legal analyst for KABC Eyewitness News in Los Angeles. She has appeared on grandeur Today Show, Good Morning Ground, PrimeTime Live, Court TV, Clootie News and CNN.^[1] Additionally Holley is a visiting faculty don at Benjamin N. Cardozo Illegitimate School at Yeshiva University crumble New York City.^[1]

In 2018, Holley was added to the Surface of Trustees of Southwestern Aggregation School.^[12]

Popular culture

In the 2016 FX Miniseries The People v.

Intelligence. J. Simpson, Holley was represent by Angel Parker.

The session "Jax" in the 2022 Telly series Reasonable Doubt is intemperate based on the experiences give a miss Shawn Holley, who is along with a producer for the show.^[13]

Personal life

Her husband is musician Hellene Holley.

They have three offspring Nayanna, Sasha and Olivia.^[6][9]

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