Latest Barassociation Podcast Episodes
The Tech Evangelist Preaches Edition: A Conversation with Legal Tech Journalist Niki Black
@theBar - March 06, 2019 20:48 - 48 minutes ★★★★★ - 41 ratingsIn this edition, co-hosts Jonathan Amarilio and Nykoel Kahn chat with Nicole “Niki” Black about the legal profession’s reluctance to embrace technology and why lawyers must become more tech proficient or risk being outpaced in our rapidly evolving economy. They also discuss where the legal profes...
The Killer Clown Edition: The Prosecution of John Wayne Gacy
@theBar - February 07, 2019 00:55 - 50 minutes ★★★★★ - 41 ratingsAmerican serial killer and rapist, John Wayne Gacy, Jr., became notorious for the mass murder of at least 33 teenage boys and young men in the late 1970s. December 2018 marked the 40th anniversary of the discovery of the mass grave beneath his home, which shocked the American public and shattered...
Benching Judicial Independence: The Poland Edition
@theBar - January 03, 2019 00:23 - 45 minutes ★★★★★ - 41 ratingsIn 2017, the Polish government passed an act to remove more than a third of the country’s supreme court judges and replace them with judges sympathetic to the governing party. Despite outcry from much of the public, Poland’s legal community, and the international community, the government moved f...
The Civility in Uncivil Times Edition
@theBar - December 05, 2018 17:32 - 47 minutes ★★★★★ - 41 ratingsOur guests Jayne Reardon of the Illinois Supreme Court Commission on Professionalism, and the Honorable Clare McWilliams of the Circuit Court of Cook County, chat with hosts Jon Amarilio and Chastidy Burns about current societal trends, best practices for appearing before the bench and how to shi...
The Illinois Attorney General Election Edition, Part II: Erika Harold
@theBar - October 29, 2018 22:59 - 36 minutes ★★★★★ - 41 ratingsIn this special, two-part edition, host Jon Amarilio sits down with the Democratic and Republican candidates in the race for Illinois Attorney General: Kwame Raoul and Erika Harold. Rather than a search for politicized sound bites, these interviews delve deeper into who the candidates are, how th...
The Illinois Attorney General Election Edition, Part I: Kwame Raoul
@theBar - October 29, 2018 11:00 - 42 minutes ★★★★★ - 41 ratingsIn this special, two-part edition, host Jon Amarilio sits down with the Democratic and Republican candidates in the race for Illinois Attorney General: Kwame Raoul and Erika Harold. Rather than a search for politicized sound bites, these interviews delve deeper into who the candidates are, how th...
The Amanda Knox Again Edition: An Interview with the Defense Team
@theBar - October 03, 2018 11:00 - 48 minutes ★★★★★ - 41 ratingsAmanda Knox, the American college student charged with killing her British roommate while studying abroad in Italy, spent four years in jail before her murder conviction was overturned. In this episode, hosts Jon Amarilio and Trisha Rich speak with Amanda Knox's lead Italian defense lawyer, Carlo...
The Brexit Brouhaha Edition
@theBar - September 05, 2018 18:00 - 33 minutes ★★★★★ - 41 ratingsWhat’s all the brouhaha about Brexit? In this episode, host Jonathan Amarilio and Andrew Walker, Queen’s Counsel and the 2018 Chair of the Bar of England and Wales, break it down for us with a rousing discussion about practice of law across the pond, how the legal community is impacted by Brexit ...
The Financing the Fight Edition
@theBar - August 01, 2018 20:39 - 43 minutes ★★★★★ - 41 ratingsIn this edition, our hosts Jon Amarilio and Jack Sanker are joined by Ajit Singh of the Law Finance Group and Travis Lenkner of Burford Capital to discuss how litigation financing is changing the face of modern litigation, the business of lawsuits, how litigation financing can be used by both the...
The AI Edition: Resistance is Futile
@theBar - July 02, 2018 12:00 - 43 minutes ★★★★★ - 41 ratingsIn this edition, our hosts Jon Amarilio and Catherine Sanders Reach talk with Dennis Garcia, Assistant General Counsel for Microsoft Corporation and Conor Malloy the Founding Partner of Chi City Legal about the ever-evolving, hot-button topic of artificial intelligence and how its impacting the p...
The Peaking Beneath the Blindfold Edition
@theBar - June 06, 2018 19:05 - 41 minutes ★★★★★ - 41 ratingsThis edition features Joel Cohen, a prominent New York white-collar criminal defense attorney and frequent contributor to The Hill, HuffPost, Slate, and the New York Law Journal, as he discusses his recent books Blindfolds Off: Judges on How They Decide, which lifts the veil of secrecy surroundin...
The Chicago Gun Violence Edition
@theBar - May 08, 2018 16:32 - 44 minutes ★★★★★ - 41 ratingsIn this edition, our hosts Jon Amarilio, Jack Sanker and Mghnon Martin ponder the question: What the heck is going on in Chicago and gun violence? They’re joined by Amy Thompson from the Office of the Cook County Public Defender and Max Kapustin from the University of Chicago Crime Lab to discuss...
The Love and Divorce Edition
@theBar - April 04, 2018 13:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 41 ratingsIn this Edition, hosts Jon Amarilio and Jennifer Byrne talk with Chicago-based divorce practitioners from two of the city’s most prominent domestic relations law firms, Miles Beermann, of Beermann, Pritikin, Mirabelli & Swerdove LLP, and Kimberly Cook, of Schiller, DuCanto & Fleck, about the stat...
The Fear and Loathing in the Law Edition
@theBar - March 09, 2018 18:15 - 58 minutes ★★★★★ - 41 ratingsBrian Cuban, attorney and best-selling author of The Addicted Lawyer, Tales of The Bar, Booze, Blow, & Redemption, talks about how his life-long struggle with low self-esteem and depression led to substance dependency, destroyed his legal career, and caused his life to spiral out of control. Bria...
The Illinois Budget Crisis Edition: How the @#$^! Did This Happen?
@theBar - March 09, 2018 18:10 - 35 minutes ★★★★★ - 41 ratingsIllinois State Representative Greg Harris about the Illinois budget crisis that spiraled out of control and dominated headlines for Illinoisans throughout much of 2017. Representative Harris, who served on the Illinois Budget Committee, shares his firsthand knowledge of how Illinois (like many ot...
The I’ll Be Dreaming About Donkeys Edition - an Interview with Judge Richard Posner (Ret.)
@theBar - March 09, 2018 18:05 - 58 minutes ★★★★★ - 41 ratingsIn this edition, hosts Jon Amarilio and Carl Newman interview Retired Judge Richard Posner of the Seventh Circuit United States Court of Appeals – one of the preeminent legal minds of 20th century. Posner opens up about his unexpected recent retirement from the bench, his views about the treatmen...
@theBar Trailer
@theBar - March 09, 2018 18:00 - 1 minute ★★★★★ - 41 ratingsYoung and young-ish lawyers have interesting and unscripted conversations with their guests about legal news, events, topics, stories and whatever else strikes our fancy. The guests are prominent figures from the legal community, and legally related communities, and the discussions are informal, ...
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