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Welcome to the Law.com Podcast Center, featuring ongoing discussions and professional insights on the latest trends impacting the industry.

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How Will Generative AI Change the Law Firm Model?

In this week's episode, Baker McKenzie's Danielle Benecke shared how the legal profession might evolve alongside ChatGPT technology.

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Legal Speak at Legalweek 2023: Lex Machina's Karl Harris and Casepoint's Jessica Robinson

Legal Speak was live on location at Legalweek 2023 in New York City, where we interviewed professionals from across the legal industry about their work and how they're helping to shape the future of the profession.

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Legal Speak at Legalweek 2023: Exterro's Bill Piwonka and Law.com Radar's Vanessa Blum

Legal Speak was live on location at Legalweek 2023 in New York City, where we interviewed professionals from across the legal industry about their work and how they're helping to shape the future of the profession.

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Legal Speak at Legalweek 2023: Level Legal's Joey Seeber, Daniel Bonner and LexisNexis' Jeff Reihl

Legal Speak was live on location at Legalweek 2023 in New York City, where we interviewed professionals from across the legal industry about their work and how they're helping to shape the future of the profession.

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Legal Speak at Legalweek 2023: Redgrave Data's Mollie Nichols and ActiveNav's Peter Baumann

Legal Speak was live on location at Legalweek 2023 in New York City, where we interviewed professionals from across the legal industry about their work and how they're helping to shape the future of the profession.

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Legal Speak at Legalweek 2023: LexisNexis' Aaron Pierce and Duane Morris' Alex Geisler

Legal Speak was live on location at Legalweek 2023 in New York City, where we interviewed professionals from across the legal industry about their work and how they're helping to shape the future of the profession.

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Why Law Firms Are Hosting Poker Nights for Attorneys

In this week's episode, PokerDiva's Ellen Leikind shared what lawyers can learn from the game to advance their careers and skill sets.

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Legalweek 2023 Preview: Chatting About ChatGPT and How Generative AI Will Transform Legal

This week's episode features a conversation with Foster Sayers and Ilona Logvinova, who will both be participating in a workshop at Legalweek New York 2023 titled, "Reshaping the Legal Profession: Thriving in the Age of Generative AI & ChatGPT," on March 20.

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Why This Mayer Brown Attorney Refuses to Focus on the Negatives of the Legal Profession

In this week's episode, Mayer Brown litigator Brandon Renken talks about his "Unlawful" podcast, which focuses on attorneys' "un awful" moments on the job.

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Here's How Clients Can Push Back on Law Firm Rate Hikes

If you're a client, you don't want to miss this conversation with Nathan Cemenska, director of legal operations and industry insights for Wolters Kluwer ELM Solutions.

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Crypto's Down, but It's Far From Dead

This week's episode of Law.com's Legal Speak was recorded live on location in New York City following Law.com's recent webinar, "The Crypto Landscape: Post-FTX." It features a chat with Blockchain Legal LLP partner Aaron Krowne and counsel Ali Derie, along with veteran entertainment industry lawyer Eric S. Goldman, about cryptocurrency's rocky recent past (and present) as well as its still-promising, if uncertain, future.

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How Edelson Plans to Pave 'a Way Forward' for Holding Gun Makers Accountable

In this week's episode of Legal Speak, Law.com legal technology reporter Isha Marathe speaks with Edelson attorney Ari Scharg about the lawsuit his firm has filed on behalf of one of the Highland Park, Illinois mass shooting victims against Smith & Wesson, the maker of the assault rifle used that day.

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Why This Attorney Wants Litigators To Look Harder at Cases Against Corporations

In this week's episode, John Uustal of Kelley | Uustal wants litigators to look harder at cases that might not look like they have merit at first.

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'Culture' Is Not Just a Buzzword—It's Your Key to Attracting and Keeping Talent

In this episode, Tamara Buie, chief people officer at Level Legal, a Dallas-based consulting, eDiscovery, and managed services company, explains how to cultivate and foster a professional environment that attracts and retains top-notch talent.

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Why Lawyers Should Dig Deep With Their Mentees

In this week's episode, Natasha Cortes of Grossman Roth Yaffa Cohen shares how to prioritize mentorship, even with mounting workloads and pressures from economic uncertainty.

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Is Artificial Intelligence Copyright Authorship a 'Red Herring?'

In this week's episode, Amir Ghavi of Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson discusses the copyright concerns involved in AI-generated art.

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Don't Be Fooled by the Crypto Crash: Blockchain Still Matters For Lawyers

Cryptocurrency's recent woes have given blockchain a bit of a black eye, but in this episode, Michael Kasdan, partner in the IP Group and co-chair of the Blockchain & Digital Assets Group at Wiggin and Dana in New York City, cuts through the hype to explain exactly why the technology still matters for lawyers.

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How the Meaning of Law Firm 'Culture' Evolved in 2022

The past year saw a number of law firm leaders and industry observers begin to make peace with the fact that the old way of working—five 12-hour days a week in a traditional office—is likely gone forever. In this year-end episode of Legal Speak, we look back at some of our most popular conversations throughout the year with law firm leaders and industry observers as they set out to navigate this new normal.

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Polarization and Post-COVID Dynamics: How a Republican-Controlled House of Representatives Will Affect Legal Services

In 2023, WilmerHale's Alyssa DaCunha said her firm is preparing general counsel to advise on broader risk management issues in an uncertain political climate.

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Why It's Time for Lawyers to Get Curious About Blockchain

In this week's episode, Law.com legal technology reporter Cassandre Coyer speaks with Wiggin and Dana partner Michael Kasdan about how blockchain technology is already being utilized in the legal industry and why lawyers should start learning more about it now.

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Legal Speak at WIPL 2022: How Legal Departments Can Support Women Attorneys

At this year's Women, Influence & Power in Law conference, Iris Lichtman and Timothea Letson, deputy general counsel at real estate technology company Compass, shared their plan dubbed "The Switcheroo" and the importance of parental leave in leveling the playing field for women attorneys.

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Judge Uses Kennedy Assassination to Show How Good Lawyers Try Cases

In U.S. District Judge William Alsup's latest book, the judge aims to construct the best line of defense in an alternate universe where Lee Harvey Oswald had to stand trial for the assassination of President John F. Kennedy.

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Why Cozen O'Connor's Associate Turnover Has Fallen

In this week's episode, Mindy Herczfeld, Cozen O'Connor's chief legal talent officer, shares learnings from the firm's effort to conduct stay interviews with 100 associates across 19 offices.

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Law Firm Recruiter: I Was Wrong About Remote Work

In this episode, Major Lindsey & Africa law firm recruiter Richard Hsu explains that he initially overestimated the importance of office work, failing to consider that large law firms have been working "remotely" for years—even before the pandemic.

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Why Law Firms Are Getting 'Ghosted' by Their Clients—And How to Prevent It

This week's episode features a conversation with Nathan Cemenska, director of legal operations and industry insights at Wolters Kluwer ELM Solutions, who explains why ghosting happens and how law firms can keep it from happening to them.

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The Rise of Threats and Attacks on the Judiciary

In this week's episode, Federal Bar Council leaders discuss the dangers judges face, how those dangers threaten the fair administration of justice and, most importantly, what can be done about the problem.

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ICYMI: M&A Leaders on Why Making A Deal With a Fellow Black Woman Was a Watershed Moment

For the first time in 15 years, Amy Wollensack of Akin Gump and Renée Delphin-Rodriguez of Crowell & Moring worked on a deal that was led by Black women on both sides. The M&A attorneys shared what the experience meant to them, and why it could be a sign the practice area is diversifying.

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Ready or Not, We're All Heading Into the Metaverse

This week's episode features a conversation with Jordan Rose, founder and president of the Rose Law Group, which has been at the forefront of law firms adopting Web3 technology.

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Law Firms Don't Need to Spend A Lot of Money to Prevent Burnout, Says Perkins Coie's Jennifer Bluestein

In this week's episode, Jennifer Bluestein shared that law firms don't need to spend a bunch of money on amenities such as an in-house therapist to prevent attorney burnout. "It's about allowing people time and space to actually turn off work and focus on other things in their lives," Bluestein said.

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'It's Gotten Overcomplicated': Covington's Rani Gupta Says Courts Might Be Jumping to Incorrect Scientific Conclusions in COVID-19 Business Interruption Cases

Covington & Burling partner Rani Gupta Gupta discusses how insurance recovery litigators are pushing back against courts' assertions that COVID-19 does not result in property damage losses.

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Don't Get Bench-Slapped. Take This Former Judge's Advice.

In this week's episode, we're revisiting a conversation from last fall between Law.com litigation reporter Cedra Mayfield and former Georgia state court Judge Dax Lopez, who discusses what litigators should and, perhaps more importantly, shouldn't do inside and outside the courtroom.

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Worried Is An Understatement: The Privacy Issues Employers and Businesses Might Face Post-Dobbs

In this week's episode, Jennifer Beckage of The Beckage Firm and Carrie-Sophia of plaintiffs firm C.A. Goldberg discuss some ways that personal data might be collected and used after the overturning of Roe v. Wade.

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'This Has Never Happened': M&A Leaders on Why Making A Deal With a Fellow Black Woman Was a Watershed Moment

For the first time in 15 years, Amy Wollensack of Akin Gump and Renée Delphin-Rodriguez of Crowell & Moring worked on a deal that was led by Black women on both sides. The M&A attorneys shared what the experience meant to them, and why it could be a sign the practice area is diversifying.

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'The Old Guard Better Buckle Up': Why the Legal Industry Can No Longer Afford to Ignore Divisive Issues

In this week's episode, author, political commentator and former Big Law attorney Sophia Nelson discusses the implications of the U.S. Supreme Court's recent rulings regarding abortion and gun control, the legal industry's increasing inability to remain silent on political and social issues and shifting attitudes toward mental health and diversity in the profession.

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LGBTQ Rights After Roe: ACLU, Lambda Legal Attorneys on the Future of LGBTQ Legal Battles

In this week's episode, the ACLU's Li Nowlin-Sohl and Lambda Legal's Sasha Buchert discuss the future of the legal fight for LGBTQ rights in America.

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How the Elon Musk-Twitter Deal Could Affect Future Transactions

In this week's episode, UCLA School of Law professor Jim Park discusses the precedent Twitter would set if it were to renegotiate the deal.

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ICYMI: Will DOJ Really Bring Criminal Monopolization Charges?

The Department of Justice has signaled that criminal monopolization cases could be on the horizon. Axinn's Tiffany Rider illustrated what such a case could entail.

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The 200th Episode: How Podcasting Preserved Mayer Brown's Culture During the Pandemic

For Legal Speak's 200th episode, Mayer Brown Chair Jon Van Gorp shares how podcasting has helped keep his firm connected and its culture intact during the pandemic. Plus, some familiar voices join to celebrate the milestone.

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There's No Time Like the Present to Become Well-Versed in the Metaverse

This week's episode features conversations with Diana Stern, GC of Palm NFT Studio, about how she became an expert in the metaverse, non-fungible tokens and blockchain technology, and Samantha Joseph, co-head of Law.com's Litigation Desk, about a new project aimed at helping others to begin developing their own expertise in those areas.

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How To Leave the Legal Industry (Or at Least Find a Job That Makes You Happier)

This week's episode of Law.com's Legal Speak podcast features an interview with Adam Pascarella, a Penn Law grad and former Baker McKenzie associate who charted his own path outside of the legal industry eventually becoming founder and CEO of Second Order Capital Management.
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