James D. Zirin

JAMES D. ZIRIN
Jim Zirin is author of three books, the latest of which is Plaintiff in Chief-Portrait of Donald Trump in 3500 Lawsuits. He is host of the critically acclaimed television talk show, Conversations with Jim Zirin, which can be seen weekly throughout the New York metropolitan area, and on PBS stations nationwide.
In an early review of Plaintiff in Chief, Kirkus Reviews praised the “unique approach to the continuing deconstruction of the Trumpian edifice,” adding that “former federal prosecutor Zirin pieces together a highly damning portrait of Donald Trump as a serial abuser of the law. The book is so incriminating not only because of the author’s credentials, but also because the details are grounded in lawsuits filed by Trump, against Trump, or, in some instances, cross-filed by the opposing parties.”

Jim is been a leading litigator, who has appeared in federal and state courts around the nation. He is a former federal prosecutor in New York, having served in that office under the legendary Robert M. Morgenthau.
His first book, The Mother Court, published in 2014, is about the great trials that went down in the Southern District in the mid twentieth century. It inspired the Shonda Rhimes TV series For the People. His second book, Supremely Partisan, questioned the

political nature of certain decisions of the Supreme Court of the United States.
He is a principal interlocutor in the critically acclaimed documentary film, Wheres My Roy Cohn? released in theaters everywhere.
Jim has written over 200 op-ed articles for Time, Forbes, Barrons, the LA Times, the London Times, the Washington Times, the New York Sun and the Nation. He has lectured on the Supreme Court at Chatham House in London. In August 2003, Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg appointed him to the New York City Commission to Combat Police Corruption.
He is a Fellow of the American College of Trial Lawyers, and is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.
A graduate of Princeton University with honors, he received his law degree from the University of Michigan Law School where he was an editor of the Michigan Law Review and a member of the Order of the Coif.