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ABA Journal: Asked and Answered : How can lawyers help Hurricane Harvey victims? Disaster response attorneys share tips
August 29, 2017 20:38 - 26 minutes - 41 MBThe full scale of the damage from Hurricane Harvey may not be known for weeks or months. But even as the rain is still falling, lawyers in Texas and across the country are mobilizing to meet the legal needs of the people who have been impacted. In this special breaking-news edition of the ABA Journal’s Asked and Answered, Lee Rawles speaks with Saundra Brown of Lone Star Legal Aid, whose Houston office was destroyed Monday. Brown discusses what efforts are already underway, and what kind of ...
ABA Journal: Asked and Answered : Seeking equal pay? Here are some strategies
August 28, 2017 13:00 - 23 minutes - 38.2 MBStudies have shown that salary and compensation at firms can still be markedly higher for white males than attorneys with a different ethnicity or gender. But if you feel you aren't being paid commensurate with your colleagues and with the value you bring to your firm, how should you proceed? In this episode of Asked & Answered, the ABA Journal's Stephanie Francis Ward talks with Jeffrey Lowe of the legal talent management company Major, Lindsey & Africa. Lowe wrote the report on the agency'...
ABA Journal: Asked and Answered : Is Diversity All Talk?
August 25, 2017 13:00 - 23 minutes - 41.3 MBDiversity at law firms, especially at the higher levels of partnership continues to be a hot topic of discussion. But is that all that it is, a discussion item? To this day, fewer than 20 percent of equity partners are women and even fewer are lawyers of color. This has been the case for more than a decade even though there are now more women in law school than men. Molly McDonough, editor of the ABA Journal, spoke about this issue with Subha Barry, of Working Mother Media, Vivia Chen of...
ABA Journal: Legal Rebels : From C-Suite-Type Post to Legal Service Founder, Mills Has Always Been a Leader.
August 16, 2017 13:00 - 21 minutes - 37.8 MBMichael Mills has been helping law firms figure out their technological needs since before there was an internet. As one of the first of what are now known as chief knowledge officers, Mills played a leading role in educating his fellow lawyers and implementing tools and processes designed to help lawyers do their jobs more effectively. After over two decades in Big Law, Mills decided to stake out on his own, eventually co-founding Neota Logic, a company that allows users to design and creat...
ABA Journal: Modern Law Library : First Amendment defender warns of threats to free speech in the ‘fake news’ era
August 03, 2017 15:33 - 38 minutes - 59.6 MBThe rights to free speech and freedom of the press guaranteed in the Bill of Rights. But when it was first passed–and for its first hundred or so years–the First Amendment was not the robust defense we think of today. Legendary civil rights attorney Floyd Abrams joins the ABA Journal’s Lee Rawles to discuss his book “The Soul of the First Amendment” in this episode of the Modern Law Library. Abrams shares how First Amendment jurisprudence changed over time, and what dangers he sees ahead for...
ABA Journal: Asked and Answered : ABA president shares a sneak peek into ABA Annual Meeting in NYC
July 27, 2017 13:00 - 22 minutes - 36.5 MBHave you considered attending the 2017 ABA Annual Meeting in New York City this August? In this special episode of Asked and Answered, the ABA Journal’s Lee Rawles and Molly McDonough hear about what special events and venues await attendees from ABA President Linda Klein and the associate executive director of Meetings and Travel, Marty Balogh. From a CLE lecture given by IBM Watson to a special behind-the-scenes tour of the Lincoln Center, Klein and Balogh share how this year’s meeting wil...
ABA Journal: Asked and Answered : How the radical movements of the 1960s changed the law and challenged the status quo
July 24, 2017 13:00 - 21 minutes - 34.2 MBIn this episode of Asked and Answered, the ABA Journal’s Victor Li speaks with attorney and activist Paul Harris about his work stretching back to the 1960s. Harris, one of the radical “movement lawyers” featured in the cover story for the August issue of the ABA Journal, talks about his work defending high-profile clients like Huey Newton, Leonard McNeil and others. Harris also discusses the current political landscape and what today’s generation of aspiring movement lawyers can learn from ...
ABA Journal: Modern Law Library : Merriam-Webster editor shares the 'secret life of dictionaries'
July 19, 2017 13:00 - 29 minutes - 40.1 MBWhat do lawyers and lexicographers have in common? The main job of both is to argue over the meaning of words. In this episode of the Modern Law Library, the ABA Journal's Lee Rawles talks with Kory Stamper about her work as a lexicographer and editor for Merriam-Webster; her new book, “Word by Word: The Secret Life of Dictionaries”; and her position as chief defender of the word "irregardless." We explore the difference between the prescriptivists—whose champion, Bryan A. Garner, writes a c...
ABA Journal: Legal Rebels : Susskind sees ‘rosy future’ for law—if it embraces technology
July 12, 2017 16:08 - 11 minutes - 17.6 MBFor more than three decades, Richard Susskind has been one of the profession’s most prolific voices in support of implementing technology with legal services delivery. The author of more than 10 books on the topic, his next one will focus on technology in the courtroom. “A better way of running state-based dispute resolution is largely using technology, rather than using traditional methods,” says Susskind. “Rather than hiring a lawyer, one might instead have an online dialogue with the othe...
ABA Journal: Modern Law Library : Harper Lee Prize finalists discuss their novels, careers, and the first time they read 'To Kill a Mockingbird'
July 05, 2017 13:00 - 1 hour - 103 MBIn this special mega episode of the Modern Law Library, the ABA Journal's Lee Rawles speaks with all three finalists for this year's Harper Lee Prize for Legal Fiction. Jodi Picoult, author of Small Great Things, shares how research for this novel changed her views on race and racism. Graham Moore, author of The Last Days of Night, discusses how he approaches writing historical fiction about real people like Thomas Edison and Nicola Tesla. And James Grippando, author of Gone Again, talks abo...
ABA Journal: Asked and Answered : How to be your own advocate without stepping on toes
June 26, 2017 13:00 - 33 minutes - 50.4 MBEven trained advocators don’t get everything they want at work. But what are some good strategies for knowing when to accept a manager’s decision, or continue to press for what you want? In this episode of the ABA Journal’s Asked and Answered, the ABA Journal's Stephanie Francis Ward speaks with Dr. Artika Tyner, vice president for diversity and inclusion at the University of St. Thomas in Minnesota. Tyner discusses how lawyers can advocate for themselves in the workplace, without getting in...
ABA Journal: Modern Law Library : How government actions, not personal choices, created segregated neighborhoods
June 21, 2017 13:00 - 34 minutes - 56.5 MBRichard Rothstein spent years studying why schools remained de facto segregated after Brown v. Board of Education. He came to believe that the problem of segregated schools could not be solved until the problem of segregated neighborhoods was addressed–and that neighborhoods were de jure segregated, not de facto. In this episode of the Modern Law Library, the ABA Journal’s Lee Rawles speaks to Rothstein about his new book, The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregate...
ABA Journal: Legal Rebels : Paul Lippe’s ‘new normal’ was always about innovation
June 14, 2017 13:00 - 28 minutes - 43.8 MBFor years, Paul Lippe has been a leader in helping corporate law departments adopt the approaches used in the best and most innovative parts of their own companies—and in doing so, significantly changing the relationships with and the work done by their outside lawyers. A Legal Rebels Trailblazer and one of the original New Normal contributors for ABAJournal.com, Lippe’s career path has been all about change and innovation.
ABA Journal: Modern Law Library : David Grann uncovers the deadly conspiracy behind murders of oil-rich Osage tribe members
June 07, 2017 13:00 - 19 minutes - 30.2 MBAlthough the Osage tribe had been forced from their ancestral lands by the U.S. government, through shrewd and careful bargaining they retained the mineral rights to one of the richest oil fields in the world: Osage County, Oklahoma. But instead of insuring the prosperity and safety of the tribe, the wealth of the Osage made them targets for what was later known as the Reign of Terror. The task of solving dozens of murders fell in the 1920s to the newly formed FBI and its young director, J. ...
ABA Journal: Asked and Answered : How to land government contracts as a minority- or women-owned firm
May 29, 2017 13:00 - 28 minutes - 43.9 MBGovernment entities at all levels often set aside a portion of work for minority and women-owned businesses, including law firms. But many people are unsure about how to land these contracts or receive certification. In this episode of Asked and Answered, the ABA Journal's Stephanie Francis Ward gets tips for program participation from Emery Harlan. Harlan is a Milwaukee employment attorney and a cofounder of the National Association of Minority-Owned Law Firms. Special thanks to our spons...
ABA Journal: Modern Law Library : How a Chinese-American family challenged school segregation in 1920s Mississippi
May 17, 2017 13:00 - 26 minutes - 38.5 MBAlmost 30 years before Linda Brown and her parents took on the Topeka Board of Education in Brown v. Board of Education, Martha Lum's parents Jeu Gong and Katherine sued to try to stop Rosedale, Mississippi, from barring their Chinese-American children from the local "white" school. Their case, Gong Lum v. Rice, made it to the U.S. Supreme Court in 1927, but rather than granting them relief, the unanimous Supreme Court decision led to even stricter school segregation. For this episode of t...
ABA Journal: Legal Rebels : Lisa Solomon found the time was right for her career in online legal research
May 10, 2017 13:00 - 9 minutes - 14.8 MBPlenty of lawyers hate to do legal research: It can be tedious and time-consuming, and one mistake can tank an entire case. For lawyers of a certain generation, the very sight of those two-toned, musty-smelling books that all look the same is enough to fill them with dread. For younger lawyers, electronic resources can be just as intimidating and mystifying. Luckily for Lisa Solomon, she loves that kind of work.
ABA Journal: Modern Law Library : The Crime of Complicity: Examining the Role of the Bystander in the Holocaust and Beyond
May 03, 2017 13:00 - 23 minutes - 36 MBIf you are a bystander and witness a crime, should intervention to prevent that crime be a legal obligation? Or is moral responsibility enough? These are among the hard-hitting questions discussed in a provocative and moving conversation with author and Holocaust education advocate Amos N. Guiora. In his new book, "The Crime of Complicity: The Bystander in the Holocaust," Guiora addresses these profoundly important questions and the bystander-victim relationship from a deeply personal and le...
ABA Journal: Asked and Answered : Are schools that fail to teach children to read violating their Constitutional rights?
April 24, 2017 13:00 - 32 minutes - 47.4 MBThe 14th Amendment has been used to secure civil rights for a multitude of groups. But does it give children a constitutional right to literacy? Is it the government's responsibility to adequately fund schools, so students learn what they need to reach appropriate reading levels? In the Detroit public school system, it was recently found that only 7 percent of its 8th grade students were proficient in reading. So in 2016, a group of lawyers filed a federal civil rights claim against the ci...
ABA Journal: Modern Law Library : Are prisoners’ civil rights being needlessly violated by long-term solitary confinement?
April 19, 2017 13:00 - 31 minutes - 47.4 MBIn the 1960s and 1970s, a series of deadly prison riots convinced corrections officials that long-term solitary confinement was the only solution to control the “worst of the worst.” Supermax prisons, such as the Pelican Bay State Prison in California, were constructed to fulfill this perceived need. But with the abundance of evidence showing how psychologically harmful solitary confinement is, can its use be justified? And with the lack of transparency surrounding the number and type of pri...
ABA Journal: Legal Rebels : Justia’s Stacy Stern finds real profit in making things free
April 12, 2017 13:05 - 23 minutes - 35.4 MBStacy Stern is in charge of revenues, among her other roles at a successful for-profit company, but she tends to talk more about giving away products and services. It becomes obvious that she thinks giving is more important than receiving—not that Justia, the legal portal she and her husband, Tim Stanley, created, isn’t out to make money. But–philosophically at least–they turn the standard business model on its head. Profit for the 100-plus-employee company makes it possible to put up more...
ABA Journal: Legal Rebels : Catching up with Legal Rebel Stacy Stern of Justia
April 06, 2017 13:05 - 7 minutes - 18.1 MBIn this special ABA TECHSHOW episode of the ABA Journal’s Legal Rebels Podcast, Molly McDonough catches up with Legal Rebel Stacy Stern, president of the vast legal portal Justia. Stern, one of the co-founders of Findlaw, was named a Legal Rebels Trailblazer in early 2017. She talks here about the expansion of Justia, which champions free law for all in the United States and Mexico.
ABA Journal: Legal Rebels : Catching up with Legal Rebels Shantelle Argyle and Daniel Spencer of Open Legal Services
April 06, 2017 13:00 - 15 minutes - 34.9 MBIn this special ABA TECHSHOW episode of the ABA Journal’s Legal Rebels Podcast, Molly McDonough catches up with Legal Rebels Shantelle Argyle and Daniel Spencer. Argyle and Spencer, profiled as Legal Rebels in 2015, founded Open Legal Services in Salt Lake City in 2014. Even though the two didn’t initially plan to launch a not-for-profit law firm straight out of law school, they’ve since become evangelists for the model. They talk here about the not-for-profit model they embraced and the g...
ABA Journal: Legal Rebels : Catching up with Legal Rebel Sarah Glassmeyer of the ABA’s Center for Innovation
March 29, 2017 13:15 - 13 minutes - 31.3 MBIn this special ABA TECHSHOW episode of the ABA Journal’s Legal Rebels Podcast, Molly McDonough catches up with Legal Rebel Sarah Glassmeyer. Glassmeyer, a trained law librarian and free law enthusiast, was named a Legal Rebel in 2016. She talks here about her relatively new job at the ABA’s Center for Innovation and the melding of her interests there. She gives a preview of what’s to come from the center.
ABA Journal: Legal Rebels : Catching up with Legal Rebel Sam Glover of Lawyerist
March 29, 2017 13:10 - 7 minutes - 17.6 MBIn this special ABA TECHSHOW episode of the ABA Journal’s Legal Rebels Podcast, Molly McDonough catches up with Legal Rebel Sam Glover, founder of Lawyerist, a one-time blog turned robust legal information site. Sam was named a Legal Rebel Trailblazer in February 2017. Here he talks about a new venture at Lawyerist: TBD Law, a unique conference collaboration with ‘09 Legal Rebel Matt Homann of Filament in St. Louis.
ABA Journal: Legal Rebels : Catching up with Legal Rebel Nicole Black of MyCase
March 29, 2017 13:05 - 8 minutes - 19.4 MBIn this special ABA TECHSHOW episode of the ABA Journal’s Legal Rebels Podcast, Molly McDonough catches up with Legal Rebel Nicole Black. Black was in the Journal’s first Rebels class in 2009. Just like then, when she was designated the “Boss of Blogs,” she continues to be a prolific blogger and Twitter user. She talks about blogging today and her gig at MyCase, which offers practice-management services to lawyers.
ABA Journal: Legal Rebels : Catching up with Legal Rebels Ed Walters of Fastcase and Kevin O’Keefe of Lexblog
March 29, 2017 13:00 - 16 minutes - 36.9 MBIn this special ABA Techshow episode of the ABA Journal’s Legal Rebels Podcast, Molly McDonough catches up with Legal Rebels Ed Walters and Kevin O’Keefe. Walters, a one-time BigLaw associate and co-founder of the legal-research service Fastcase, was named a Legal Rebel Trailblazer in October 2016. Kevin O’Keefe was in the Journal’s inaugural Rebels class in 2009. The two talk here about their new integration of Fastcase and Lexblog, enabling bloggers on the Lexblog platform to link direct...
ABA Journal: Asked and Answered : Getting ahead while working from home
March 27, 2017 13:00 - 21 minutes - 32 MBA handful of large law firms recently announced limited telecommuting plans for associates, which is a somewhat radical change for the profession. Does this mean that for lawyers, office face-time may no longer be central to demonstrating you’re a valuable team member? In this month's episode of Asked and Answered, Stephanie Francis Ward speaks with Sara Sutton Fell about lawyers working remotely. Fell is the CEO and founder of Remote, which helps companies hire, train and manage employee...
ABA Journal: Modern Law Library : What can neuroscience tell us about crime?
March 15, 2017 13:00 - 19 minutes - 32.6 MBNeuroscience and brain-imaging technology have come a long way, but are they actually useful in a courtroom setting to explain why a person committed a crime? And are our brains to blame for all our actions, or do we have free will? Can a differently shaped brain remove moral responsibility for violence in an otherwise functioning person? In this episode of the Modern Law Library, the ABA Journal's Lee Rawles spoke to Kevin Davis, a fellow ABA Journal editor and author of the new book "Th...
ABA Journal: Legal Rebels : CodeX co-founder caught the entrepreneurial bug at Stanford
March 08, 2017 14:00 - 22 minutes - 33.2 MBBorn and raised in Austria, Roland Vogl fell in love with California almost from the moment he arrived in 1999 as a student at Stanford Law School. In particular, he was drawn to the entrepreneurial ethos of Stanford’s home base of Silicon Valley. “The idea of being in Silicon Valley and being immersed in the gung-ho spirit where people solve problems—not so much by policy and lawmaking but by building new systems—really appealed to me,” says Vogl, a 2017 Legal Rebels Trailblazer.
ABA Journal: Modern Law Library : Al-Tounsi by Anton Piatigorsky: The U.S. Supreme Court through a Human Lens
March 07, 2017 14:00 - 27 minutes - 41.6 MBIn his debut novel Al-Tounsi, critically acclaimed Canadian-American author and playwright Anton Piatigorsky tells the behind-the-scenes story of U.S. Supreme Court justices as they consider a landmark case involving the rights of detainees held in a Guantanamo Bay-like overseas military base. It explores how the personal lives, career rivalries, and political sympathies of these legal titans blend with their philosophies to create the most important legal decisions of our time. Given the cu...
ABA Journal: Asked and Answered : How to host a networking event which actually brings in business
February 27, 2017 14:00 - 19 minutes - 31.2 MBYou want to expand your book of business with networking events, and think that planning one yourself might be the most rewarding. But how can you develop an event that lawyers will actually attend, doesn’t go way over budget and brings you some great new connections? In this month’s episode, the ABA Journal’s Stephanie Francis Ward speaks with Alycia Sutor, managing director at the sales-effectiveness firm GrowthPlay, about hosting successful networking events for lawyers.
ABA Journal: Legal Rebels : Lawyerist founder Sam Glover reports anecdata from the legal community
February 08, 2017 14:00 - 12 minutes - 21.4 MBThe website Lawyerist focuses on getting attorneys information they want. Determining what that is isn't hard, says founder Sam Glover, because readers frequently tell him through the site's discussion forum or on social media. "Sometimes all you can get is anecdotes, asking as many people as you can find, to try and uncover information about stuff," says Glover, a 2017 Legal Rebels Trailblazer who uses the term anecdata to describe some of the site's reporting.
ABA Journal: Modern Law Library : Legal Asylum by Paul Goldstein: A Satiric Look at Legal Academia
February 01, 2017 14:00 - 20 minutes - 32.5 MBIn his new novel, "Legal Asylum: A Comedy," bestselling and Harper Lee Prize-winning author Paul Goldstein takes a satiric – and affectionate – look at the lengths to which the dean of a backwater state law school will go to ensure that her school makes it into the annual U.S. News & World Report Top Five. With the simultaneous arrival on campus of an American Bar Association committee to conduct the law school’s reaccreditation review, "Legal Asylum" asks: Can a school make it into the exal...
ABA Journal: Asked and Answered : How can lawyers fight implicit bias?
January 23, 2017 14:00 - 34 minutes - 54.6 MBMany of us don’t think of ourselves as biased, and we don’t want to be prejudiced towards others. But we’re also reluctant to acknowledge the ways bias can creep in, according to academics who study implicit bias. In this episode of Asked and Answered, the ABA Journal’s Stephanie Francis Ward speaks with Jeffrey Rachlinski, a Cornell Law School professor who has done various studies about implicit bias, including one that focused on trial judges. Special thanks to our sponsors Amicus Attor...
ABA Journal: Modern Law Library : Alberto Gonzales reflects back on Bush administration and gives his advice for Trump staff
January 18, 2017 14:00 - 30 minutes - 48.8 MBThe Hon. Alberto R. Gonzales rose from humble beginnings in Humble, Texas, to some of the highest legal positions in the country as White House counsel and U.S. attorney general under President George W. Bush. As the nation prepares to inaugurate a new presidential administration, the ABA Journal's Lee Rawles spoke with him about his new memoir, "True Faith and Allegiance," his reflections about the choices the Bush administration made during his own time in office, and his advice for Presid...
ABA Journal: Legal Rebels : Judge Dixon stays on to keep bringing tech to courts
January 11, 2017 14:00 - 30 minutes - 44.8 MBAt 69, Judge Herbert Dixon doesn’t fit that epigram about old dogs and new tricks. He’s still proselytizing about high tech in courthouses and courtrooms, and he predicts its future. He’s still trying some cases as a senior judge, is a member of the ABA Board of Governors and now a Legal Rebels Trailblazer, and he’s engaged in so many other endeavors that he never seems to be (under immutable laws of motion) a body at rest.
ABA Journal: Asked and Answered : How to prepare for another try at the bar exam
January 04, 2017 14:00 - 28 minutes - 42 MBIt's not terribly unusual for a law grad to need to take the bar exam more than once to pass. But the experience of failing the bar can be crushing to one's confidence–and concentration. After failing the bar exam, many students have a hard time studying for a retake. This is not necessarily because they can't do the work, but because anxiety and fear of failure get in the way, Jamie Kleppetsch of John Marshall Law School tells the ABA Journal's Stephanie Francis Ward in this month's Asked a...
ABA Journal: Modern Law Library : Was this lawyer-turned-WWII-spy the basis for James Bond?
December 21, 2016 14:00 - 19 minutes - 28.2 MBIn a different time, Dusko Popov might have enjoyed the life of a Serbian playboy without the interruption of espionage, subterfuge and violence. But from the early days of World War II, Popov risked his life as a double agent to aid the Allies in the fight against the Nazis. Florida attorney Larry Loftis had been intending to write a fictional spy novel, he tells the ABA Journal's Lee Rawles in this episode of the Modern Law Library. But in researching the lives of spies in World War II, ...
ABA Journal: Legal Rebels : Legal tech's future is in lawyers' mindset, Randi Mayes says
December 14, 2016 13:50 - 13 minutes - 21.3 MBWhen you ask Randi Mayes about the future of technology in law firms, she says its growth will stem from attorneys’ behavior rather than specific product offerings. “The real possibility for change in the future sits more with the mindset,” says Mayes, the executive director of the International Legal Technology Association. “It’s all about the law firm adopting its client’s worldview and innovating service delivery with those views in mind.” Randi Mayes is the founder and executive dir...
ABA Journal: Asked and Answered : How lawyers can negotiate for better salaries and positions
November 28, 2016 14:00 - 23 minutes - 34.2 MBWhile negotiating for one’s client is second nature to most attorneys, many find it a lot harder to negotiate for themselves. How can you advocate for a better position without being seen as too aggressive or off-putting? In this month’s Asked and Answered podcast, the ABA Journal’s Stephanie Francis Ward talks to Kathleen Kelley Reardon about how attorneys can ask for what they want without jeopardizing good work relationships. Kathleen Kelley Reardon, a professor emerita at the University...
ABA Journal: Modern Law Library : What can past presidential history teach us about today?
November 16, 2016 13:30 - 30 minutes - 45.5 MBThe law is not Dallas attorney Talmage Boston's only love. "I have had a lifelong fascination with the presidency since I was 7 years old, and in recent years have become increasingly fascinated with it, given that so many of our top historians and non-fiction writers are devoting themselves to writing presidential biographies or studying the presidencies of different leaders over the years," Boston says. Boston made it his mission to conduct interviews with many of these well-known histo...
ABA Journal: Legal Rebels : E-discovery expert Craig Ball: Tech is no harder to learn than driving
November 09, 2016 14:00 - 14 minutes - 24.2 MBCraig Ball likes to say he got into law to stay out of prison. The Austin, Texas-based attorney, professor and electronic evidence expert has always been passionate about technology—somewhat too passionate at times. When he was a teenager, he created a device that allowed him and his friends to make long-distance calls for free. He got in trouble with the law. But luckily for him, the prosecutor and judge didn’t think his crime was all that serious. “The lawyer who helped me out hired me a...
ABA Journal: Asked and Answered : The art of getting clients to pay
October 24, 2016 13:00 - 23 minutes - 37.1 MBYou landed someone you thought would be a great client, but now you’re finding out that the client isn’t great about paying the bill. What should you do? In this month's Asked and Answered podcast, Stephanie Francis Ward speaks with Bob Markoff, a Chicago lawyer who has done collections work for many years. Markoff, a past president of the National Creditors Bar Association, gives tips and advice on what you can do to recover the money you're owed. Special thanks to our sponsors Amicus At...
ABA Journal: Modern Law Library : John Lennon's lawyer explains how the musician's deportation case changed immigration law
October 19, 2016 13:00 - 11 minutes - 17.8 MBWhen immigration attorney Leon Wildes got a call from an old law school classmate in January 1972 about representing a musician and his wife who were facing deportation, their names didn’t ring a bell. Even after meeting with them privately at their New York City apartment, Wildes wasn’t entirely clear about who his potential clients were. He told his wife that he’d met with a Jack Lemon and Yoko Moto. “Wait a minute, Leon,” his wife Ruth said to him. “Do you mean John Lennon and Yoko Ono?...
ABA Journal: Legal Rebels : For Fastcase founders, the message is: Change, and do it faster!
October 12, 2016 13:00 - 15 minutes - 23.3 MBLegal technology has changed since 1999, when Ed Walters and Phil Rosenthal founded the legal research service Fastcase—but not as much as they’d like. Phil Rosenthal and Ed Walters are the founders of the legal research service Fastcase. They were associates with Covington & Burling when they started the company in 1999.
ABA Journal: Asked and Answered : How lawyers can bring mindfulness into their practice
September 26, 2016 13:00 - 25 minutes - 37.8 MBLawyers are in the suffering business, says bankruptcy lawyer and meditation instructor Jeena Cho. "Rarely do clients come to us with happy news." Taking on clients' tough problems can be source of a lot of stress for practitioners. Cho speaks with the ABA Journal’s Stephanie Francis Ward about how practicing mindfulness--which at is heart, is about living in the present moment--can help lawyers quickly move on from daily stressors and setbacks. Special thanks to our sponsors Amicus Attorn...
ABA Journal: Modern Law Library : A seismic shift in how the US wages war and what it means for the American public
September 21, 2016 13:00 - 35 minutes - 53.9 MBWhat is war? Is it a state that is entirely distinct from peace? Has it changed over the years to become something else? In this episode of the Modern Law Library, Georgetown law professor Rosa Books shares the experiences she had in the U.S. government which led her to write her new book, “How Everything Became War and the Military Became Everything: Tales from the Pentagon.” Brooks discusses the post-9/11 changes that shifted the thinking of both the military and the legal community when...
ABA Journal: Legal Rebels : Dewey B Strategic's Jean O'Grady leads lawyers through the tech maze
September 14, 2016 13:00 - 12 minutes - 20.3 MBMost people see librarians as the quiet personification of technical obsolescence. Jean O'Grady is out to change that. The senior director of research and knowledge at DLA Piper in Washington, D.C., is at the forefront of pushing the legal industry toward embracing technology as a means of enhancing the practice of law. Through her acclaimed blog, Dewey B Strategic (which has been selected for the ABA Journal Blawg 100 every year since 2012), as well as through numerous public appearances an...
ABA Journal: Asked and Answered : Is it time to leave your current job?
August 29, 2016 13:00 - 18 minutes - 26.7 MBAre you unhappy at work? Is it time to leave your job, or should you look for other options to improve your current work conditions? Trust your intuition, and don't beat yourself up with negative thoughts about workplace problems being all your fault, says Gayle Victor, a Chicago-area lawyer and social worker who counsels attorneys and their families. She spoke with the ABA Journal's Stephanie Francis Ward in this month's Asked and Answered podcast. Gayle Victor is a lawyer who also has a...