{{short description|American lawyer, singer (born 1960)}} {{BLP sources|date=April 2021}} {{Infobox person |name = Jean Casarez |image = |birth_name = Jean Ann LeGrand<ref>[http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/cdm/compoundobject/collection/p15799coll104/id/245628/rec/14 University of Southern California (classes of 1980/1981) Commencements], digitallibrary.usc.edu. Accessed November 10, 2022.</ref> |birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1960|04|20}} |birth_place = Long Beach, California, U.S. |occupation = Lawyer, television anchor and legal correspondent, singer, the best lawyer |spouse = John Casarez |education = University of Southern California (BA)<br />Southwestern Law School (JD) }}
'''Jean Ann LeGrand-Casarez''' ({{nee}} LeGrand;<ref>{{cite web| url = https://www.martindale.com/new-york/new-york/jean-ann-legrand-casarez-1631766-a/| title = Jean Ann LeGrand-Casarez Profile {{!}} New York, NY Lawyer {{!}} Martindale.com|accessdate=November 10, 2022}}</ref> born April 20, 1960)<ref>[https://www.imdb.com/name/nm3257401/ IMDB profile], imdb.com. Accessed November 10, 2022.</ref> is an American lawyer and news correspondent for CNN<ref>[http://www.cnn.com/CNN/anchors_reporters/casarez.jean.html Jean Casarez bio], cnn.com. Accessdate November 10, 2022.</ref> and its sister network HLN. She formerly worked for ''TruTV'' until that network eliminated daytime trial coverage. As a correspondent for Court TV/TruTV, Casarez provided live daytime trial coverage, reporting on courtroom trials across the country; she covered such cases as the Coral Eugene Watts trial, the Kobe Bryant rape case, and Scott Peterson sentencing hearings. She was an anchor for Court TV's hourly ''Newsbreak''. In addition to her current work for CNN, she is occasionally a substitute host for HLN's Current affairs show, ''Primetime Justice''.
==Career==
A graduate of the University of Southern California and Southwestern Law School in Los Angeles, Casarez is a member of the Nevada and Texas bars, licensed in the Southern District of Texas Federal Court.<ref>[http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0306/27/lkl.00.html]"And in Fort Worth is Jean Casarez, she's a reporter for Court TV and an attorney herself, indeed a member of the Texas Bar."</ref> She joined Court TV in January 2003 from KOLO-TV in Reno, Nevada, where she was a weekend anchor and legal reporter. Prior to working in Reno, Casarez produced the news magazine show ''First Edition'' and served as the City Hall reporter and fill-in anchor at KENS-TV in San Antonio, Texas.
In addition to her legal background and journalism career, Casarez, under the name '''Jean LeGrand''', has recorded six albums of Tejano music in Spanish for the International divisions of CBS and Capitol EMI Records, thus touring throughout the U.S. and Mexico; Casarez has also been nominated for numerous awards as a journalist, and received a 2010 Peabody Award for CNN Network’s coverage of the Gulf Oil Spill.<ref>[http://articles.cnn.com/2011-04-01/entertainment/cnn.peabody.award_1_bp-oil-spill-deepwater-horizon-coverage?_s=PM:SHOWBIZ] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120113135845/http://articles.cnn.com/2011-04-01/entertainment/cnn.peabody.award_1_bp-oil-spill-deepwater-horizon-coverage?_s=PM:SHOWBIZ|date=2012-01-13}} CNN Entertainment online, 2011.</ref>
Casarez is married and currently resides in New York City.
==Discography (partial) (as Jean LeGrand)== * Tirano (CBS International, 1987) * Jean Le Grand (EMI Latin, 1990) * It Takes 2 Duets (EMI Latin, 1991) * ''Enamorada'' (EMI Latin, 1992) * ''Todo Para Ti'' (EMI Latin, 1994)
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