Paris Ransom

About Charles Rosenberg

Charles Rosenberg is the author of the bestselling legal thriller Death on a High Floor and its sequel Long Knives as well as the 1994 viewers guide to watching a criminal trial The Trial of O. J.: How to Watch the Trial and Understand Whats Really Going On. He was one of two on-air legal analysts for E! Televisions live coverage of the O. J. Simpson criminal and civil trials. Rosenberg has also been credited as the legal script consultant for the television shows Boston Legal L.A. Law The Practice and The Paper Chase. During college Rosenberg spent a year in France where he had many adventures. He traveled around the country in a VW Bus with some young Belgians he met while admiring the Bayeux Tapestry in Normandy attended a French-language boot camp in Besançon worked for two months on an apple farm in a small village near Dijon and studied French history for two semesters at a university in Southern France. He has returned to France many times since most recently to interview lawyers judges law students and law professors as part of his research for Paris Ransom. Since graduating from Antioch College and Harvard Law School where he was an editor of the law review Rosenberg has had a long career as a partner in large law firms and as an adjunct law professor at several prominent law schools including Loyola UCLA and Pepperdine. He is currently a partner in a three-lawyer firm in the Los Angeles area where he lives with his wife.