If you have the feeling Michael Avenatti has been on television a lot these days—well, it's not just you.

According to an analysis by the Washington Free Beacon, the lawyer for Stormy Daniels (a.k.a. Stephanie Clifford) has appeared on MSNBC and CNN a stunning 108 times from March 7 to May 10. That averages out to more than once a day.

The conservative-leaning publication calculates the exposure is equal to $175 million in free media.

Jenna GreeneI'm not entirely sure about their math, but still … wow. Avenatti in two months may have just eclipsed David Boies and Gloria Allred to rival Rudy Giuliani as the most famous practicing lawyer in America. (In so far as what Giuliani has been doing is actually, you know, practicing law.)

In many ways, Avenatti is the consummate lawyer for the age of Trump. If cable news is our town hall and Twitter our forum for public discourse, Avenatti—with his bronzed skin and tailored suits, dispensing sound bites or yelling that his opponents are thugs—shines.

His favorite show? CNN's “Anderson Cooper 360,” where he has done at least 20 interviews in the last 64 days, according to the Beacon. That's followed by MSNBC's “The Last Word with Lawrence O'Donnell,” with 14 appearances, and CNN's “New Day,” with a dozen. He's been eschewing Fox, but has repeatedly tweeted that he'll go on Sean Hannity's show if invited.

And Avenatti is not just on cable news. He's also appeared on “The Late Show with Stephen Colbert,” Showtime's “The Circus,” NBC's “Megyn Kelly Today,” ABC's “The View,” HBO's “Real Time with Bill Maher,” and network morning shows “Today,” “CBS This Morning,” and “Good Morning America.”

“There's been some criticism about our media strategy, and how often I'm on CNN and how often I've been on your show and other networks,” he told (who else) Anderson Cooper. “It's all a bunch of nonsense, because here's the bottom line, Anderson. It's working. Okay? It's working in spades.”

That depends on how you define “working,” but one thing's for sure: It's been hugely beneficial for Avenatti's personal brand.

Proof writ small: A woman emailed me on Friday with the subject line “I want to contact Michael Avenatti to help with my daughter's case.”

It's a child support dispute, and she wants Avenatti because her husband “has this sharp lawyer … and he is beating me … My lawyer is no match for him.”

I've been writing about the law for 20 years and no one ever sent me an email begging for help in hiring a particular lawyer. I find it very telling. For some people, at least, he's their dream advocate.

Of course, Avenatti also faces all sorts of vitriol. Fox host Tucker Carlson on Thursday, for example, called him “a creepy porn lawyer” whose “eyes are too close together.” (Way to take the high road, Tucker.)

One key to Avenatti's continued cachet as a cable news guest that he doles out nuggets of news at regular intervals.

Some revelations are small, like announcing that Stormy Daniels passed a polygraph test or was threatened by an unidentified man. Some are huge, like bank statements showing AT&T, Novartis and others paid Michael Cohen's shell company dubious consulting fees. But all continue to keep Avenatti and his client in the news cycle.

How to explain his preternatural skill in navigating the spotlight? Some no doubt is pure instinct, but two facts from his Eagan Avenatti http://avenatti.com/bio/law firm bio strike me as particularly telling.

The first: “While in college and later in law school, Michael worked at a political opposition research and media firm run by Rahm Emanuel (who later became White House Chief of Staff and is presently the Mayor of Chicago),” his bio states. “During his time there, Michael worked on over 150 campaigns in 42 states.”

Aaah.

Emanuel—notoriously pugilistic and profane—is the kind of guy who as an aide to Bill Clinton once “stabbed a knife into a table while screaming the names of the president's enemies,” per the Washington Post. And as a veteran of 150 campaigns, Avenatti would have learned something about how to craft messages—and tear down your opponent.

After Avenatti graduated from law school at George Washington University (where he was mentored by another media savant, Professor Jonathan Turley), he went to work at O'Melveny & Myers.

There, according to his bio, he worked “alongside Daniel Petrocelli, who previously represented the Goldman family in its case against O.J. Simpson. He assisted Petrocelli on multiple legal matters including the representation of singer Christina Aguilera and litigation surrounding the movie K-19: The Widowmaker, and worked extensively on the defense of the Eagles' Don Henley and Glen Frey in various cases.”

That's a potent mix: Rahm Emanuel + Daniel Petrocelli.

Petrocelli is widely viewed as one of the best trial lawyers around. His influence may help account for Avenatti's courtroom skills, which are also first-rate. Last year, he won a $454 million award in a class action against Kimberly-Clark over defective surgical gowns—the third-biggest verdict in the country in 2017.

In the end, that's what makes Avenatti so dangerous to the Trump administration. He doesn't just play a lawyer on TV. He's one in real life too.

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Here They Go Again

Lawyers for Apple and Samsung will be back in court—again—arguing over patent infringement damages—again—on Monday, as jury selection kicks off before U.S. District Judge Lucy Koh in San Jose.

“I would prefer to not keep doing this until I retire,” Koh said at a pre-trial hearing.

The retrial will determine how much Samsung must pay Apple for infringing three iPhone design patents after the U.S. Supreme court in 2016 set aside a $399 million award.

Per the Supreme Court, the district court to determine damages must first identify the “article of manufacture” to which the infringed design has been applied, and then calculate the infringer's total profit made on that article of manufacture.

Representing Apple, look for a team from Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr—lawyers include Bill Lee and Mark Selwyn—and Morrison & Foerster's Erik Olson and Nathan Sabri.

Samsung is represented by Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan lawyers including John Quinn, Kathleen Sullivan, William Price, Michael Zeller, Kevin P.B. Johnson and Victoria Maroulis.

It's like the harmonic convergence of journalism: Cohen's sketchy influence AND Schneiderman's appalling behavior, together in one story.

One of the accused—shareholder Jon Seawright—is a health care and tax lawyer who is also on the firm's board of directors.

If patents cancelled by the PTAB never should have been granted, the plaintiff argues that the PTO should never have collected (or be allowed to keep) any issuance or maintenance fees.

A pair of Reed Smith litigators share their insights on what went wrong in settlements involving Kia and Hyundai; Subway sandwiches; Google's Gmail service and Jaguar Land Rover.

The judge permitted “reasonable” fees as a sanction for the Kansas Secretary of State's contempt in the voting rights suit.

Silver's attorney, Allen & Overy partner Michael Feldberg, said he believed there remained “significant legal issues” to take up on appeal.

Among them: petitions that involve the Dodd-Frank Wall Street reform law's “anti-spoofing” provision, judicial “takings” and gun rights.

The best part of the story: Decatur, Georgia-based criminal defense attorney Michael Katz—a longtime martial arts practitioner—gets on the elevator, sees the assault in progress and boom, takes the guy down. “I'm not going to let that happen. I've trained for that over the years,” Katz said.