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       *A Los Angeles middle school once attended by famed attorney Johnnie Cochran Jr. will be renamed in his honor, officials said Tuesday.      

       The Los Angeles Unified School District Board of Education voted unanimously  to rename the 1,900-student Mt. Vernon Middle School after the attorney best known for successfully defending O.J. Simpson in his 1995 murder trial.      

       “This extraordinary, superb lawyer with movie-star celebrity status was an outstanding student at Mt. Vernon Middle School and Los Angeles High School,” principal Scott Schmerelson told the Associated Press.       

       Cochran, who died of an inoperable brain tumor last March at age 67, had a celebrity client list that included football legend Jim Brown, who he defended on rape and assault charges; actor Todd Bridges, who faced attempted murder charges; rapper Tupac Shakur on a weapons charge, rapper Snoop Dogg on a murder charge and rapper Sean "P. Diddy" Combs on gun and bribery charges stemming from a nightclub shooting.

      *In other news about the late lawyer, "The Story of Johnnie Cochran" will be telecast in a special episode of the new GSN signature weekly hour-long documentary series  “Anything To Win”  Tuesday, January 31  (9:00 – 10:00 PM ET/PT). The documentary will chronicle Cochran’s remarkable life and show how he eventually set Geronimo Pratt, a wrongfully convicted man, free after decades in prison for murder. For MORE info, go HERE.

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