Steve Brill didn’t invent The Connecticut Law Tribune, but he took it to great heights. The Yale Law-educated founder of The American Lawyer magazine bought the Trib in the late 1980s, as part of his vision to cover law the way Forbes and The Wall Street Journal covered corporate America. Unfortunately, as in the world of business, money turned out to be the easiest metric for measuring accomplishment.
The Trib was Brill’s first (and smallest) newspaper purchase. He added a score of weekly legal papers in Texas, California and along the East Coast.
