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It's more fun when you win! ALJ team having fun and enjoying the night at the 2018 Emmy Awards Gala in Philadelphia, PA. October 13, 2018
American Lawyer Media's Executive Editor Gina Passarella taping a segment at the ALM NY office, September 18, 2017.
We won two! Candid from the NATAS Mid-Atlantic chapter 35th annual gala, September 9, 2017.
On a very sultry and steamy day, we shot our "sizzle" reel footage on location. Here are Gina and Christopher at Constitution Hall. See the final cut here.
Christopher makes his 349th pass through Elfreth's Alley for the opening and closing sequences.
"Hey, that's Gina Passarella" says a little girl who recognizes her from the program.
Guests from the November taping of "Workers Comp Reform: Medical Care & Drug Addiction."
L to R: Matthew Wynn, Alex Halper, host Christopher Naughton, Laurie Carrol, the Hon. Joseph Hakun, and George Badey.
Christopher on the set for the Neil Gorsuch Nomination Program with Pennsylvania Senator Daylin Leach and attorneys Mark Meuser and George Badey.
ALJ's Host Christopher Naughton moderates Penn Law Center for Ethics & the Rule of Law's program:
'Legal Responses to the Opioid Addiction Crisis, Criminal, Civil and Regulatory Solutions'
-March 16, 2018
The American Law Journal
is honored with two Emmys in the National Academy
of Television Arts & Sciences
Mid-Atlantic region, September 2016.
View the news release here
Our friends at the Philadelphia CNN-News affiliate WFMZ-TV gave us this footage. A great night- and a surprise to get not one but two Emmy awards
Our team at American Lawyer Media's "Legal Week" January, 2018. L to R: Corey Hersh, Andrew Schaeffer, Maura Kennedy.
Appeared in American Lawyer Media's "Corporate Counsel" magazine November, 2016
Guests from the November taping of "The 'Wild West' of Defective Products: Unreasonably dangerous?"
L to R: Brandon Swartz, Jon Dryer, host Christopher Naughton, Jerry Baldino, William Ricci.
All four guests had something in common: they all have J.D.'s from Temple University Beasley School of Law.
ALJ South walking meeting in First Landing State Park, Virginia Beach
Valerie Jones, Producer at the 2016 Emmy Ceremony
The Hon. Paul Panepinto
Anthony Haller of Blank Rome & Mary Tiernan
of the EEOC celebrate their appearance
on the Emmy winning program
Wage, Hour & Overtime: What's Fair Pay Today
One of these things is not like the others ....
be glad there is no sound with this image!
Gina Passarella, our feature reporter and Executive Editor, The American Lawyer Magazine (American Lawyer Media)
The editorial and production executive team: Christopher, Associate Producer Jenn Conway, Senior Producer Valerie Jones and Director of Production Andrew Schaeffer on the set.
At one of our recent productions, guests to our studio asked what it was so, as the intrepid curiousity-seekers we are, we asked around. Jeff Kuhns, Engineer at WFMZ-TV, clued us in.
This is a type of particle accelerator, a klystron. Some are used in the transmission of broadcast signals. This Varian-brand klystron is retired from service at the hilltop station, where it sat at the base of the tower to power (with a whole lot of oomph) signals to the top where they could then be broadcast long distances.
The klystron, also called a specialized linear-beam vacuum tube, was the invented of Russell & Sigurd Varian in 1937. These Irish-American brothers were early Silicon Valley entrepreneurs, incorporating Varian Associates in 1948 to "conduct general research in the field of physical science of every kind or nature.
Neither took the conventional path to a career that most did in their era; if you read the history at the second link below, you'll learn one was dyslexic and the other too impatient for school. Sounds like some of the most prominent "tech titans' of our day. Also described at that link are the tremendous contributions to both communications and war efforts- including applications for radar- during a critical time in our nation's history.
That ends the broadcast engineering lesson of the day.
Read more
Russell and Sigurd Varian: Inventing the Klystron and Saving Civilization
History of Communications & Power Industries LLC (formerly Electron Device Business of Varian Associates, Inc.)
If that's not enough, check out this academic paper from Stanford University: High Power Klystrons: Theory & Practice.