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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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Hold the Phone! The Supreme Court Is in (Virtual) Session

Wilmer Hale partner David Bowker, whose case was one of the first to proceed by telephone, gives a behind-the-scenes account of preparing for and delivering arguments in the new environment.

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Summer of Our Discontent: Big Law Associate Programs Get Major Overhaul

For those law firms still conducting summer programs amid the coronavirus pandemic, the challenge is to make the experience meaningful.

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Excerpts from Webcast: Recession and Crisis Preparation: How New Technologies Can Help Law Firms Streamline Operations

In this episode of the Expert Perspectives podcast, sponsored by Planet Depos and hosted on Law.com, we'll hear highlights from the March 26th presentation titled, Recession and Crisis Preparation: How New Technologies Can Help Law Firms Streamline Operations.

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Banner Year to Total Bummer: What's Ahead for the Am Law 100

Are law firms financially prepared to weather the fallout from COVID-19? Hear from the experts on this week's Legal Speak podcast.

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'Painfully, Sadly, Far Too Many Bankruptcies': Gibson Dunn Top Litigator on What's Coming Post-COVID-19

Randy Mastro, co-chair of the firm's litigation practice group, describes the growing wave of lawsuits.

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'Take Heart. Be Strong': David Lat On How COVID-19 Has Changed His Life and the Legal Profession

The Above the Law founder-turned-legal recruiter talks about his brush with death and what he's learned from the ordeal.

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Zoom GC Aparna Bawa Opens Up About Big Gains and Some Growing Pains

Bawa, who joined the video conferencing company in 2018, shares what it's been like as Zoom has gone from business tool to virtual lifeline and come under scrutiny for security vulnerabilities.

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For Big Law, Is COVID-19 The Great Recession All Over Again?

Keith Wetmore, former chairman at Morrison & Foerster, and Bill Brandt, who has helped handle workouts and restructurings for nearly 40 law firms, had big roles during the 2008 recession. Here's their perspective on the major challenges law firms are facing now.

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How We're Surviving as a Shut-In Workforce: 'Know Where Your Mute Button Is' and Be Patient

As the country combats the COVID-19 crisis, lawyers are settling into a new work reality. We checked in to see how they're coping.

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Pressure's On: Big Law Targeted by Student Activists

In this episode, we explore law student activism, and how future attorneys attending law schools at Harvard, Yale, New York University and elsewhere are using their leverage to protest policies and practices.

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Excerpts from Navigating Data Protection & Risk in the Cloud Era Using Intelligent Technology Solutions

In this episode of the Perspectives podcast, sponsored by Microsoft and hosted on Law.com, we'll explore strategies in dealing with challenges faced by legal and compliance professionals.

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Cancellations, Crisis Planning and Clorox: COVID-19 Strikes Legal Community

Law.com journalists—Dylan Jackson, Heather Nevitt, Jack Newsham and Karen Sloan—report on how this rapidly changing situation is upending operations at law firms, law schools and legal departments.

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Once Optimistic, Addicted in the End: What We Can Learn from One Partner's Demise

Journalist Eilene Zimmerman, the ex-wife of a Wilson Sonsini partner who died of a drug overdose about five years ago, shares what she learned about Big Law culture in researching her new book "Smacked: A Story of White-Collar Ambition, Addiction and Tragedy."

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Explain It to Me Like I'm an 8-Year-Old, Counselor!

Is being a lawyer hard? What happens if a bad client wants to hire you? Why do lawyers keep secrets? On this episode of Legal Speak, we let kids ask the questions.

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'I Knew What Life Was Like': How This Managing Partner Thrived Amid the Whiteness of Big Law

In this episode, The Careerist Vivia Chen talks with Squire Patton Boggs global managing partner Frederick Nance about the progress—and lack of it—in opportunities for African American attorneys in Big Law.

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Tips, Tools and Biggest Bummers: What Lawyers Really Think About the State of Legal Tech

In-house and law firm leaders tell us what tools make their lives easier, what technologies are over-hyped, and what they're doing to transform the organizations they work for.

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Beyond Borders: What Lawyers Need to Know About the Global Legal Market

In conjunction with the launch of our new website, Law.com International, Lisa Shuchman, senior editor of the site, takes us around the world to explain what the implications of political unrest in Hong Kong, the Coronavirus, Brexit, the growth of class actions in Australia, and much more mean for Big Law and beyond.

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'It Was a Constant, Daily Stressor': This Law Grad Got $221K in Student Loans Wiped Out. Who's Next?

This week, we look at the albatross hanging around the necks of so many lawyers: student loan debt.

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'Big Law Loves Litigation Financing': Legalist's GC Breaks It Down

Third-party funding is a recipe for Big Law attorneys to increase their book of business and make clients happy, says Legalist GC Curtis Smolar, a former Fox Rothschild partner.

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Excerpts from Webcast: "How to Leverage Predictive and Artificial Coding Intelligence for Defensible and Effective Review"

In this episode of the Perspectives podcast, sponsored by Everlaw and hosted on Law.com, we'll look at highlights from the December 11th presentation titled "How to Leverage Predictive Coding and Artificial Intelligence for Defensible and Effective Review."

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Tear Down the Window-Dressing: Big Law Policies That Actually Support Women

A "piling on" of slights and inequities over time drives women from law firms, a study by ALM and the ABA shows. At the same time, men and women vastly differ in how they view the success of firms' policies to address the problem.

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Excerpts from Webcast: Trends in Discovery and Depositions

In this episode of the Perspectives podcast, sponsored by Planet Depos and hosted on Law.com, we'll look at highlights from the December 5th presentation titled "Trends in Discovery and Depositions."

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All Things Re-Considered: Hot Legal Topics in 2019

We've selected some of our standout episodes from the last year, which covered mental health, Big Law defections, in-house frustrations and cannabis. Take a listen.

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OK, Boomer. Here's What You Need To Know About Legal Tech Trends

Time waits for no one. So in this episode we're exploring the changes in legal tech that developed this year and what we can expect in 2020.

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All the President's Judges: The Impact of Trump's Record-Setting Appointments

The administration has filled judicial slots with "bulldozer efficiency." Here's what it all means.

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Legal Speak Special Edition: 'The Butterfly Effect' of Building Lawyer Resilience

Adam Markel, a lawyer who now writes and speaks about mental health fitness, talks with Gina Passarella, editor-in-chief of Law.com affiliate The American Lawyer, about making small life changes to achieve self-care in the demanding profession of practicing law.

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Failures and Flameouts: Why Law Firms Collapse

What are the common threads in Big Law demises and how can other firms avoid making the same fatal moves?

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This Big-Law Veteran Hit Rock Bottom. Here's How She Got Sober.

Lisa Smith, who started her path to recovery 15 years ago, says there's a "myth" about the so-called high-functioning alcoholic.

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Should I Stay or Should I Go Now? Life After Law Firm Leadership

As their leadership terms come to a close, partners find that it can be a time of newly found freedom. But it's also a point when they may feel disconnected from previous clients, behind on the developments in their practice areas and at sea as their responsibilities start to shift.

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Mega Firm's #MeToo Mess: How DLA Piper Is Handling a Sexual Assault Scandal

DLA Piper has a case to make against allegations of sexual misconduct from a partner in the firm's Silicon Valley office. But the strategy has its risks.

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Boots to Suits: The Path from JAG Corps to Big Law and Beyond

The challenge for military lawyers who shift gears into civilian practice is that legal employers don't necessarily understand how their prior experience translates to civilian law.

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5 Tips for Working With Men and More Career Insight from Women Lawyers

We asked five panelists at ALM's Women, Influence and Power in Law conference an array of questions including how they promote themselves and what concerns them about the opportunities for women in the profession.

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What (and Who) to Watch at SCOTUS: Unpacking the New Term With Mayer Brown's Nicole Saharsky

With a simmering impeachment investigation and a looming presidential election, the court will be taking on issues related to guns, abortion, immigration and LGBT rights.

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Stressed Out, Left Out: Law Firm Staff Suffering in Silence

As part of our Minds Over Matters project, Law.com reporter Dylan Jackson focuses on how legal professionals, including marketing directors, business developers and law firm administrators, often feel under-appreciated and misunderstood at work.

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Excerpts from webcast: Legal Analytics for Consumer Protection Case Strategies

In this episode of the Expert Perspectives podcast, sponsored by Lex Machina and hosted on Law.com, we'll hear highlights from the August 28th presentation titled, Legal Analytics for Consumer Protection Case Strategies.

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What Bugs In-House Lawyers About Outside Counsel? Here's What They Said—And More

Podcasting from the General Counsel Conference in New York, we pulled aside a few in-house lawyers and asked them three basic questions focused on outside counsel relationships, their use of technology and career development.

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Excerpts from The Ultimate Guide to the Legal Consumer's Needs, Expectations and Actions

As more potential clients perform their entire attorney search online, law firms are recalibrating how they manage prospects' expectations and clients' needs.

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More Grit, Less 'Polish.' What It Means to Be a First Generation Lawyer

Being the first in one's family to hold a professional job—or perhaps even go to college—creates a unique set of challenges for new attorneys.

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Inside Quinn Emanuel's Plan to Dominate Cannabis Litigation

As players in the fledging industry grow, their business disputes are going to land in court. Quinn wants to be the first law firm that comes to mind.

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Steven Brill on 'Disdain, Horror' and Other Adventures in 40 Years of The American Lawyer

Brill, the founder of The American Lawyer, talks with Passarella, the current editor-in-chief, about how the publication put a spotlight on the most powerful firms in the country.

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Forget Reefer Madness, Pot Law Goes Mainstream

Demands from existing clients and the lure of new business opportunities have overtaken the taboo around marijuana for many major law firms.

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Hey Listen! Check Out These Popular Podcasts From Legal Speak

Legal Speak is on a short break but let's keep up the conversation with a look back at some favorite episodes.

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Lawyer Resilience in a Pressure-Cooker Profession. It's (Probably) Not What You Think.

"Resilience" doesn't mean "endurance." It involves taking care of ourselves so that we're in the best position to survive—and thrive—amid the intense demands of practicing law.

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Good-Bye Big Law, Hello Boutiques. Why These Young Lawyers Are Sold on Smaller Firms

For some attorneys, there is no substitute for practicing in a boutique, where they say the quality of the work, training and personal attention to their career development is unparalleled.

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'Partners in Life': How Manatt CEO Donna Wilson and Blank Rome’s Linda Kornfeld Make It Work

This Big Law power couple juggles busy careers and parenting responsibilities. They’re also breaking barriers for LGBT attorneys.

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Ready to Ride the Litigation Finance Wave? More Lawyers and Clients Say 'Yes' to Funding

Third-party litigation funding is having a moment. Vannin Capital's Scott Mozarsky explains its biggest selling points.

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Excerpts from webcast: How to Gain a Competitive Edge in Environmental Law with Legal Analytics

In this episode of the Expert Perspectives podcast, sponsored by Lex Machina and hosted on Law.com, we’ll hear highlights from the June 11th presentation titled, How to Gain a Competitive Edge in Environmental Law with Legal Analytics.

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Jerk Partners Beget Jerk Partners: Ending Big Law's Cycle of Dysfunction

It goes something like this: Because it was difficult for you, you're going to make it difficult for those below you.

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What David Lat Learned about Big Law—and Himself—at Above the Law

The blog's former editor-in-chief says that conditions have improved for associates since 2006, when Above the Law made its debut.

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What the NLJ 500 Tells Us About Law Firm Hiring, Diversity and Competition

What's the fastest growing segment of lawyers? How are mergers changing the map? And who's at the top of the 2019 Women in Law Scorecard? Editors and reporters break down the major trends and takeaways on this Legal Speak podcast.
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