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Navigating Chaos: Triumphs and Trials of a Public Defender (replay)
Episode 130
Matt Skinner is a public defender with passion. Criminal defense is high-stakes, sometimes chaotic work that can be extremely difficult, but Matt nav…
10 months ago
Trading in Gray Areas: How Sanctions Shape International Business
Episode 129
For the government, sanctions and export controls are foreign policy tools. For businesses, they are legal minefields. Audi Syarief is a senior assoc…
10 months, 1 week ago
Sports & Entertainment Law: Making a Solo Firm Work Against the Odds (replay)
Episode 128
Jeremy Evans managed to outlast hundreds who started law school hoping to do sports and entertainment law. He talks about the struggle to start his o…
10 months, 2 weeks ago
Administrative Hearings and Human Stories: Social Security Disability on the Frontlines
Episode 127
Through her social security disability practice, Asha Sharma represents clients who are often struggling with poverty, homelessness, and complex medi…
10 months, 3 weeks ago
Trial by Algorithm: Helping Lawyers Navigate the AI Revolution
Episode 126
Joe Stephens operates at the intersection of cutting-edge technology and traditional legal practice. As both a trial consultant and public defender, …
11 months ago
Law Firm to Law Professor: Tenure, Teaching, and Scholarship
Episode 125
Sudha Setty entered legal academia on a path less traveled—without a clerkship or teaching fellowship. While working as a litigation associate at an …
11 months, 2 weeks ago
Breaking Up the Business: Conflict, Mediation, and Resolution
Episode 124
Margeaux Thomas is the definition of lawyer meets entrepreneur. She specializes in business partnership disputes, landlord-tenant conflicts, and cont…
11 months, 3 weeks ago
Leading with Vulnerability: From the Courtroom to the Community
Episode 123
Before becoming a judge, Alex Manning served in the military, worked undercover as a cop, and defended people in complex criminal cases. She was also…
11 months, 4 weeks ago
Second Chances: Rewriting Life Through Clemency
Episode 122
Today, Venetia Mayhew is one of Oregon’s most well-known clemency and post-conviction lawyers, but her path to the law was anything but typical. She …
1 year ago
From Clerkship to Private Practice: Research, Writing, and Challenging Assumptions
Episode 121
Alexis Taitel, a commercial litigator and fourth-year associate at a large firm, spent her first two years after law school clerking in federal distr…
1 year ago