Insights with host Hugh Downs Launches Law Series

    BOCA RATON, FL, August 15, 2009 /24-7PressRelease/ -- Insights producing issues surrounding "the law" part of a series of short-form segments for Public Television.

Insights is a series that takes you into our Nation's best law firms demonstrating how top litigators "Raise the Bar" in our society. Law permeates every aspect of our society. Lawyers, then, are dealing with issues that range from medical to environmental. They are ensuring our medical system is safe and is held to the highest standards. They are impacting our natural environment for the better and changed our corporate and personal responsibilities in this area. They protect the public from products and pharmaceuticals that may reach consumers without proper and thorough examination. They serve to reduce injury and death on our highways and motivate automotive companies to produce innovations in safety technology. They serve to change the institutions that care for our elderly making them become ever more humane and caring places that we can trust. They help to facilitate our capital markets by providing the basis of intellectual property. This includes patents, copyright and trade secrets.

Insights will be touching upon all of these issues and producing them as part of a series of short-form programming for airing on Public Television.

The senior producer of the series said, "These programs include specials on alternative dispute resolution, international trade, immigration and more. This ground breaking project will give our audience a real look at the firms and attorneys that practice law in our nation."

Insights is featuring a number of stories on litigation that will be educating on the work lawyers accomplish to support our legal system and the consumer.

About Insights Hugh Downs:

For more information visit www.insightshd.com or call (772) 647-0030. The Insights series is distributed to Public TV through a national distributor and highlights the best and most compelling educational stories. Each segment is hosted by America's most well-known anchor, Mr. Hugh Downs.

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