Maybe the woman who called the cops on a Black birdwatcher should try using ChatGPT to make up some fake caselaw for her appeal because the real ones aren't helping.
After a year of sword rattling that higher education is "hostile to free speech" because students don't appropriately sit quiet and absorb what speakers on stage are laying down, the media grand ... Show More
Yesterday
Bonus Season Begins In Earnest
Bonuses and botched prosecutions.
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Bonus season is underway, and Biglaw firms are lining up to reward associates for a year's worth of effort. The market scale -- unless some firm breaks rank and crashes the party -- tracks last year, which can be a bit anticlimactic, but ... Show More
33m 57s
Oct 2023
Weekend Law: Flipping on Trump, Instagram Promoters & Meta Sued
Michael Moore, the former US Attorney for the Middle District of Georgia, discusses the witnesses flipping against Donald Trump. Ann Lipton, a business law professor at Tulane University, discusses how promoters on social media are testing the limits of a 90-year-old securities l ... Show More
36m 20s
May 2023
When the Judge Cries at Sentencing
Bloomberg legal reporter Patricia Hurtado, discusses the sentencing of Alejandro Burzaco, a banker-turned-sports marketing executive turned star witness at two FIFA corruption trials. Harold Krent, a professor at the Chicago-Kent College of Law, discusses the Supreme Court ruling ... Show More
26m 29s
Jul 2023
Actors' Strike Shuts Down Hollywood
Briana Hill, a partner with Pryor Cashman, discusses the actors’ strike. Anne Marie Lofaso, a law professor at the West Virginia University College of Law, discusses why Wall Street is fighting New York’s ban on non-compete clauses. June Grasso hosts.See omnystudio.com/listener f ... Show More
24m 20s
Aug 2023
The Law, The Law! It's Chock Full Of Clowns. Dubious Lawsuits Up And Productivity's Down!
A little Broadway for this week's title.
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Law firm productivity is down, but are we really worried about that? It's a traditional harbinger of layoffs, though something about this market feels a bit different. Meanwhile, a right-wing advocacy group has sued a pair of Biglaw ... Show More
28m 40s