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Jean Casarez was born on April 20, 1960 in Long Beach, California, United States of America. She is an <a href="/biography/jean-casarez">Attorney</a>, and also a <a href="/biography/jean-casarez">news correspondent</a> and anchor. Jean was born American, but both her parents are from Mexico. After attending the High School in Long Beach, the city in which she spent her childhood, Jean studied at the “University of Southern California”, and she later completed her studies at the “South-western University” in Los Angeles, from where she graduated as a Juris Doctor. 
During her law school studies, Jean won the first place in the Moot Court Competition held state-wide. She also assisted in the preparation of a Writ of Certiorari for the US Supreme Court. She is a <a href="/biography/jean-casarez">member</a> in both Nevada and Texas bars, and she has registered her license in the Southern District of Texas Federal Court.  
 
One of her first working experiences, when she was still studying law, has been at the “Gallagher and Tratos” firm in Nevada, where she worked as a clerk. Jean’s career as a journalist started in the year 2003, when she started working for “Court TV” (the actual truTV) till the moment in which that network eliminated the daytime trial coverage.  
She was really versatile, and she covered many positions in that TV station, working as a news anchor and also in the capacity of legal reporter at “KOLO TV”, in Reno, Nevada. In the meantime, Jean also produced a news magazine called “First Edition”. 
She also worked for a short period at “KENS-TV” situated in San Antonio, Texas, as fill in anchor. For a brief period, Jean worked also as a “City Hall” reporter. She serves nowadays as a news correspondent for “CNN” and its sister network “HLN”, based in New York City.

Jean is a multitalented <a href="/biography/jean-casarez">person</a> who, under the name “Jean LeGrand”, has also recorded six Spanish albums published by Capitol EMI Records and CBS. She has toured all over Mexico and America for her albums. Her Discography (partial) includes “Tirano” (CBS International, 1987), “Jean Le Grand” (EMI Latin, 1990), “It Takes 2 Duets” (EMI Latin, 1991), “Enamorada” (EMI Latin, 1992), and “Todo Para Ti” (EMI Latin, 1994). 
She has received numerous awards and recognitions for her work as legal reporter, and also for her news coverage as journalist. She received the Peabody Award for her coverage of the Gulf Oil Spill.

Jean provides live coverage of the trials in the courtrooms all over the country as correspondent. Some of the important cases that she has covered include the <a href="/biography/kobe-bryant">Kobe Bryant</a> rape case, the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scott_Peterson">Scott Peterson</a> sentence hearings, the stories of West Virginia’s contaminated public water supply, the Utah trial of Martin Mac Neill, thePennsylvania road rage, and the Coral Eugene Watts Trial. She testified in the Jodi Arias trial which created a controversy at that time as she has also reported on the trial. From Florida and the Bahamas, she covered the court proceedings at the international legal aspect involving <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anna_Nicole_Smith">Anna Nicole Smith</a>, and her untimely death. In 2009, for “In Session”, she covered the trials of <a href="/biography/george-zimmerman">George Zimmerman</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conrad_Murray">Conrad Murray</a>, Casey Anthony, and Jodi Arias.

Jean is also a legal adviser and guest on the national cable and network news shows like CNN’s “Larry King Live”, “<a href="/biography/nancy-grace">Nancy Grace</a>” in HLN, and “Anderson Cooper 360”. She also does work for NBC show “The Today Show” and “The Early Show” of CBS.

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Jean is very active in the social media: she has a Facebook, a LinkedIn, and a Twitter accounts that she uses frequently to post news and comments work-related. She also has a profile on CNN’s website from where is possible to consult the news she produced in those years. Among the available stories, there are some interesting titles like "A family shattered by abuse allegations", "A father-son relationship interrupted", "A baby arrives at the ER with 13 broken bones", "She filed a complaint against <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larry_Nassar">Larry Nassar</a> in 2014. Nothing happened", "Michigan State students march for sexual assault survivors", "2015: Auschwitz survivor warns about future genocides", "Costa Rica plane crash kills New York family", "Who is a target for deportation?", "Rock-throwing case shatters more than one life", "Michigan highway rock shatters more than one life", "What we know about suspect in NYC attack", "Goldman attorney ready for 'round two' of trying to collect from O.J. Simpson", "Attorney ready to collect from <a href="/biography/o-j-simpson">OJ Simpson</a>", "Prosecutors asking for 2-year prison sentence for <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthony_Weiner">Anthony Weiner</a>", "Harvey expected to affect gas prices", "Cosby attorney: He means a lot to a lot of us", "Prosecution plans to retry Cosby case", "Widow learns details of death, 13 years later", "<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthony_Weiner">Weiner</a> to plead guilty to sexting minor", "Hernandez found not guilty in double murder case", "Choir member quits, won't sing for Trump", "The death of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_of_JonBenét_Ramsey">JonBenét</a>: A case that's captivated the country for 20 years", and "<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_of_JonBenét_Ramsey">JonBenét Ramsey</a>'s father speaks 20 years later".

Jean has many followers on both Facebook, about 20k, and Twitter, 10k. And it’s also curious to know that, on her LinkedIn profile, Jean added in the section “Featured Skills & Endorsment” the entries “Broadcast”, “New Media”, and “Video Production”, skills that everyone recognizes her.

Jean have undergone several plastic surgery procedures to improve her appearance and grant her a juvenile look (even if not exactly “natural”). Jean doesn’t like talking about her private life on the media, and she puts all her effort to keep her private life as reserved as possible. However, we got to know that Jean is married to John Casares, but the year of their marriage is not known. However, on 20th July 2014, she gave a little sneak peek about her married life when she posted a picture on Twitter of her husband and her celebrating their anniversary with a lovely dinner. Currently, she resides in New York City.

Her net worth is estimated to be high, since she accumulated money from her hard work as a news correspondent and as a lawyer. However, the exact figure regarding her net worth and salary is not known.

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