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		<title>Monserrate&#8217;s Attorney Gets a Reality Show</title>

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		<description><![CDATA[<p><img class="alignleft" src="http://nyoobserver.files.wordpress.com/2011/06/tacopina.jpg?w=300&h=247" />Joseph Tacopina, that famous and formidable defense attorney, is getting a reality show.</p>
<p>The Hollywood Reporter <a href="http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/hr/content_display/news/e3id33607826ff31d7e8594ddbf75d9dfec">says the show</a> is called "Legal Ease."</p>
<blockquote><p>The daily reality show will revolve around lawyers giving advice to everyday people. Stories will be shot on location, and advice will be dished out in-studio by Joseph Tacopina, head of the firm, and a panel of legal eagles.</p>
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<p>Mr. Tacopina <a href="http://www.nypost.com/pagesixmag/issues/20090201/Inside+Story+Joseph+Tacopina">has represented</a> the teenage girl in the Peter Cook-Christie Brinkley love triangle; one of the Dutch teenagers suspected of killing Natalee Holloway in the Caribbean; rapper Foxy Brown; and Frank Tyson, the Michael Jackson assistant who was accused of covering up the singer's trysts with young boys. He also <a href="http://www.thestar.com/News/article/195480">filed the paperwork</a> for the family of Harry Houdini to have the magician's body exhumed.</p>
<p>Lately, Mr. Tacopina has been in the news for defending State Senator Hiram Monserrate, who was <a href="/2009/hiram-monserrate-walks-away">convicted of a misdemeanor</a> but dodged several felony charges last week. It was Mr. Tacopina, in an appearance on <em>Good Day New York</em>, who let slip the <a href="http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/lawyer_monserrate_to_wed_gal_at_LtenaidG2grVWakD9SkcXI">big news</a> that Mr. Monserrate will be marrying his girlfriend Karla Giraldo sometime after the restraining order is lifted.</p>
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		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><img class="alignleft" src="http://nyoobserver.files.wordpress.com/2011/06/tacopina.jpg?w=300&h=247" />Joseph Tacopina, that famous and formidable defense attorney, is getting a reality show.</p>
<p>The Hollywood Reporter <a href="http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/hr/content_display/news/e3id33607826ff31d7e8594ddbf75d9dfec">says the show</a> is called "Legal Ease."</p>
<blockquote><p>The daily reality show will revolve around lawyers giving advice to everyday people. Stories will be shot on location, and advice will be dished out in-studio by Joseph Tacopina, head of the firm, and a panel of legal eagles.</p>
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<p>Mr. Tacopina <a href="http://www.nypost.com/pagesixmag/issues/20090201/Inside+Story+Joseph+Tacopina">has represented</a> the teenage girl in the Peter Cook-Christie Brinkley love triangle; one of the Dutch teenagers suspected of killing Natalee Holloway in the Caribbean; rapper Foxy Brown; and Frank Tyson, the Michael Jackson assistant who was accused of covering up the singer's trysts with young boys. He also <a href="http://www.thestar.com/News/article/195480">filed the paperwork</a> for the family of Harry Houdini to have the magician's body exhumed.</p>
<p>Lately, Mr. Tacopina has been in the news for defending State Senator Hiram Monserrate, who was <a href="/2009/hiram-monserrate-walks-away">convicted of a misdemeanor</a> but dodged several felony charges last week. It was Mr. Tacopina, in an appearance on <em>Good Day New York</em>, who let slip the <a href="http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/lawyer_monserrate_to_wed_gal_at_LtenaidG2grVWakD9SkcXI">big news</a> that Mr. Monserrate will be marrying his girlfriend Karla Giraldo sometime after the restraining order is lifted.</p>
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