Susan F. Filan is Senior Legal Analyst for Microsoft and National Broadcasting Company, former prosecutor for the State of Connecticut, and a trial lawyer
Education
Quinnipiac College School Of Law, Hamden, Connecticut
Juris Doctor, May 1991. Merit Scholar, 1990-1991
IOLTA Scholar, 1990-1991. American Jurisprudence Award, Trial Practice, 1991
University Of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan
Master of Arts, Anthropology, 1986
Teaching Assistant.
Research Assistant.
Research Grant Recipient
Admitted to Doctor of Philosophy Program in Anthropology
University Of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan
Bachelor of Arts, with Distinction, Anthropology, 1981
Graduate of National Institute of Trial Advocacy’s Ten Day Regional Program
Graduate of National Advocacy Center Trial Advocacy Program
Graduate of Top Gun Training Program, Sea Girt, New Jersey.
Career
In 1991, she began her career as a criminal defense attorney for a legal aid clinic, in New Haven, Connecticut, representing indigent defendants charged with crimes. She then went into private practice where she specialized in criminal defense and matrimonial law at both the trial and appellate level in state and federal court. In 1998, Filan was hired by the State Attorney"s office for The Division of Criminal Justice which consists of the Office of the Chief State"s Attorney and the State"s Attorneys for each of the 13 Judicial Districts in Connecticut.
They, along with Assistant State"s Attorneys, are Connecticut"s prosecutors—the public officials known in many other states, and in television lore, as District Attorneys, or the "Doctorate.A." Filan was one of the more than 500 prosecutors, inspectors and administrative and support staff who are responsible for the investigation and prosecution of crime in Connecticut.
She was assigned to the Gang and Continuing Crime Unit. In 2003, Filan transferred to the Judicial District of Fairfield at Bridgeport as an Assistant State"s Attorney (prosecutor).
In 2005, Filan began providing commentary on Microsoft and National Broadcasting Company, Fox News, Cable News Network, Court television, American Broadcasting Company News, Columbia Broadcasting System News, and British Broadcasting Corporation News in 2005 on several high-profile cases including Michael Jackson and Scott Peterson. In May 2005, Filan resigned as a prosecutor to pursue a career in media when she was hired by National Broadcasting Company News and Microsoft and National Broadcasting Company to provide exclusive legal analysis of the Michael Jackson trial.
She covered the trial from Santa Maria, California.
After Jackson"s acquittal on all charges, Filan returned home and began providing legal analysis for Microsoft and National Broadcasting Company and occasionally appeared on National Broadcasting Company. In 2006, she was promoted to Microsoft and National Broadcasting Company Senior Analyst. In addition to appearing as an analyst on Microsoft and National Broadcasting Company"s daytime and primetime programs, Filan also has served as a guest host for "The Abrams Report." Filan has been quoted in print media around the world. She is a regular contributor to Women in Crime Ink, described by the Wall Street Journal as "a blog worth reading." Filan is admitted to practice before the Supreme Court of the United States, the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, the United States District Court for the District of Connecticut and the Courts of the State of Connecticut.
She is a sought after public speaker and has a column on Microsoft and National Broadcasting Company.com called the Filan Files.
She was the past president of the Board of Quinnipiac University School of Law Alumni Association and an Alternate on the Local Grievance Panel for the Judicial District of New Haven. Mississippi Filan does not yet have a Martindale rating.
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Quotations:
"The Abrams Report.".