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Devin James Stone (born 1983/1984) is an American lawyer and YouTuber. He is known for his channel, LegalEagle, where he reviews films and television shows to discuss the level of accuracy of their depictions of the law and courtroom procedure, and to discuss the legal issues raised by those works. He also talks about current legal cases and explains how US law works in respect to them. He operates a law school exam prep company called Legal Eagle Prep.

Biography

Stone graduated from the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) in 2005 with a Bachelor of Arts degree in political science. He then attended the UCLA School of Law, graduating in 2008 with a Juris Doctor degree. As a law student, he was a member of the UCLA Entertainment Law Review and participated in the UCLA Mock Trial Program and the UCLA Moot Court Honors Program. Stone was a judicial extern for Arthur Lawrence Alarcón, a senior judge for the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, and later worked as an associate at national firms Barnes & Thornburg and Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP.

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In February 2020, Stone filed a series of Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests asking a federal judge to order the Trump administration to produce the information removed from former national security advisor John Bolton's book, The Room Where It Happened, and to reveal details concerning the underlying prepublication review process. The National Security Council (NSC) Records Access and Information Security Management Directorate (RAISMD) were named as the primary defendants in the action, along with the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), National Archives and Records Administration, and Departments of Defense, Justice, and State. The suit was dismissed on March 18, 2021.

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