LegalEagle

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LegalEagle
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Born
Devin James Stone

(1983-12-16) December 16, 1983 (age 41) [1]
Education University of California, Los Angeles (BA, JD)
Occupations
  • Lawyer
  • YouTuber
Website stonelawdc.com OOjs UI icon edit-ltr-progressive.svg
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GenreLaw
Subscribers3.73 million [2]
Views1.04 billion [2]
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YouTube Gold Play Button 2.svg1,000,000 subscribers2020
Last updated: June 21, 2025

Devin James Stone (born December 16, 1983) is an American lawyer and YouTuber known for his channel, LegalEagle, [3] where he reviews films and television shows [4] [5] 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. [6] [7] [8] He operates a law school exam prep company called Legal Eagle Prep [9] as well as his own law firm called Eagle Team Law. [10]

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Early life

Devin James Stone [11] [12] [13] [14] was born on December 16th, 1983. [15] He 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. [16]

Career

Stone was a judicial extern for senior United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit judge Arthur Lawrence Alarcón, and later worked as an associate at national firms Barnes & Thornburg and Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP. [16]

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. [17] [18] The suit was dismissed on March 18, 2021, with a judge ruling that the NSC is not an agency subject to FOIA and that the plaintiffs failed to demonstrate that the other agencies had to expedite their processing of the FOIA requests. [19]

In September 2021, Stone became an adjunct law professor at Georgetown University Law Center. [16] [20]

On December 11, 2024, Stone announced that he is filing lawsuits against the Federal Bureau of Investigation and United States Department of Justice to have them comply with his FOIA requests relating to the DOJ investigations on President-elect Donald Trump's classified documents case and election obstruction case. [21]

On January 2, 2025, Stone announced that he and Sam Denby have filed a class action lawsuit against PayPal Honey for poaching creator commissions. [22] This came after YouTube creator MegaLag created a video about the subject. [23]

Awards and nominations

YearAwardCategoryResultRef.
2022 12th Streamy Awards CommentaryNominated [24]

References

  1. ↑ "Devin James Stone, Born 12/16/1983 in California | CaliforniaBirthIndex.org". californiabirthindex.org.
  2. 1 2 "About LegalEagle". YouTube.
  3. ↑ "'LegalEagle' Brings Big YouTube Audience Into World Of Law". Law360 . Retrieved October 29, 2023.
  4. ↑ "Briefly". State Bar of Wisconsin . February 12, 2019. Retrieved October 29, 2023.
  5. ↑ Lloyd, Brian (November 22, 2018). "An actual lawyer breaks down the 'Cereal Defense' from 'It's Always Sunny...'". Entertainment.ie . Retrieved October 29, 2023.
  6. ↑ "YouTube lawyer sounds off on charges against Crumbley parents". The Oakland Press . December 12, 2021. Retrieved October 29, 2023.
  7. ↑ Savage, Aaron (July 10, 2019). "One of My Favorite YouTubers Explains 2019 Supreme Court Rulings". KTEM . Retrieved October 29, 2023.
  8. ↑ "Real-Life Lawyer Shares Insight on Fortnite Dance Move Lawsuits". VGR. December 26, 2018. Retrieved October 29, 2023.
  9. ↑ "Welcome to Legal Eagle". legaleagle. Retrieved December 6, 2023.
  10. ↑ "About Eagle Team Law". eagleteamlaw. Retrieved May 3, 2025.
  11. ↑ "Devin James Stone #260326". Calbar. State Bar of California. January 18, 2022. Retrieved December 31, 2024.
  12. ↑ Horn, Liam (May 28, 2020). "Better Call Saul: 5 Things It Gets Right About Legal Practice (& 5 It Gets Wrong)". ScreenRant . Retrieved December 28, 2024.
  13. ↑ "Devin J Stone". Georgetown University Law Center . Retrieved December 28, 2024.
  14. ↑ "About". stonelawdc. Retrieved December 28, 2024.
  15. ↑ Stone, Devin James (May 27, 2023). Real Lawyer Reacts to The Little Mermaid. LegalEagle. Event occurs at 0:00. Retrieved December 28, 2024– via YouTube. Disney's original "Little Mermaid" came out in 1989. And even though I was five at the time...
  16. 1 2 3 "Devin J. Stone, Esq". Stone Law DC. Archived from the original on January 21, 2021. Retrieved January 22, 2021.
  17. ↑ Lambe, Jerry (June 25, 2020). "Lawsuit Seeks to Unearth Details Behind Trump Administration's Review of Bolton Book". Law&Crime. Archived from the original on January 16, 2021. Retrieved January 22, 2021.
  18. ↑ Gerstein, Josh (June 25, 2020). "New lawsuit demands details on Bolton book review". Politico. Archived from the original on January 29, 2021. Retrieved January 22, 2021.
  19. ↑ "Legal Eagle, LLC v. Nat'l Sec. Council Recs. Access & Info. Sec. Mgmt. Directorate, No. 20-1732, 2021 WL 1061222 (D.D.C. Mar. 18, 2021) (Contreras, J.)". justice.gov. April 19, 2021. Archived from the original on August 18, 2022. Retrieved June 5, 2022.
  20. ↑ "Devin J Stone". Georgetown University Law Center . Retrieved October 29, 2023.
  21. ↑ Niemietz, Brian (December 11, 2024). "YouTuber Legal Eagle sues FBI, DOJ for Trump investigation records". Daily News . New York. Retrieved December 12, 2024.
  22. ↑ LegalEagle (January 2, 2025). I'm Suing Honey . Retrieved January 3, 2025– via YouTube.
  23. ↑ MegaLag (December 21, 2024). Exposing the Honey Influencer Scam . Retrieved January 3, 2025– via YouTube.
  24. ↑ "12th Annual Streamy Nominees". The Streamy Awards. Retrieved November 18, 2022.
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