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Dan Abrams
Dan Abrams (born May 20, 1966) is an American journalist who is an MSNBC anchor and NBC News chief legal correspondent. He anchors The Abrams Report on MSNBC. He also covers legal stories for NBC Nightly News with Brian Williams, Today and Dateline NBC.
Abrams joined NBC News as a general assignment correspondent based in New York City in 1997. A former Court TV reporter and anchor, Abrams has continued his legal reporting at NBC News. He has covered a number of high-profile trials, including the Bush v. Gore post-election legal battles, President Clinton's impeachment trial, the Oklahoma City Bombing trials and appeals, Susan McDougal's trial, the JonBenet Ramsey investigation and the Elián González legal battles.
Prior to joining NBC News, Abrams served as an anchor and reporter for Court TV since 1992. During his tenure, he covered the O.J. Simpson murder trial from Los Angeles, the Timothy McVeigh trial from Denver, the International War Crimes trial from The Hague, Netherlands, and the assisted suicide trials of Dr. Jack Kevorkian from Detroit and Pontiac, Michigan.
In addition to his reporting duties, Abrams was a daytime anchor for Court TV and anchored the weekly program Teen Court TV. Abrams served as an NBC News consultant reporting on the O.J. Simpson murder and civil trials with regular appearances on NBC Nightly News, Today and Dateline NBC since 1995.
Abrams has published articles in The New York Times, The Nation, USA Today, The American Lawyer, George, Yale Law and Policy Review.
Abrams graduated from Riverdale Country School in the Bronx in June of 1984. In 1988, Abrams graduated cum laude at Duke University in Durham, North Carolina, where he received a Bachelor of Arts degree in political science. He received his law degree from Columbia University in 1992.
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