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TendingBar

by Tending Bar Media, LLC

Tending Bar talks with lawyers and other professionals about big ideas in the law. We celebrate the higher, better spirit of the legal profession that values service to others, and that works to build a good and just society. Hosted by Todd Harris.

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Episodes

  1. Peter Vincent (Part 2): On DACA, Values in Government, and Public Service

    As Season 1 of TendingBar draws near to its close, it’s only fitting to bookend the season with the second part of our interview with Peter Vincent, whose interview was initially introduced earlier this summer as our very first episode. Once the former top lawyer at Immigration and Customs...

  2. Jere Simpson - On Success as a Platform for Giving Back

    Once a struggling teenager who found himself “without home,” as he describes it, Jere Simpson is a luminary entrepreneur whose successful software company, Kitewire, is trusted by the FBI and U.S. intelligence agencies to provide security for agents’ mobile phones. In this refreshing…

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  3. Alison Bost: Legal Ethics, Fighting Implicit Bias & Being a Lawyer to Lawyers

    As the Deputy General Counsel of Womble Bond Dickinson (US) LLP, Alison Bost advises hundreds of attorneys across the country regarding legal ethics, professional responsibility and risk management. During her TendingBar interview, Alison describes a legal career built on counseling other…

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  4. Rob Falk: Lawyering in the Service of Equality and Public Health

    With a wide-ranging career in both private practice and leadership roles within in-house legal departments, Rob Falk’s career has been about service from the start. As a young law firm associate, Rob began pro bono work for causes he cared about, including work that eventually led to his hiring…

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  5. Ted Claypoole: COVID-19, Contact Tracing & Real-Life Privacy Risks For Vulnerable Communities

    Ted Claypoole has been a leading expert regarding information security and privacy law since before most people ever heard the term “Internet.” Formerly the chief data lawyer for Compuserve, and later as the top privacy and infosecurity lawyer for Bank of America, Ted has a long history of…

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  6. Chris & Betsey Mercado - Fighting Veteran Suicides and Objective Zero

    When Army Ranger Maj. Chris Mercado spoke with his former combat buddy in 2014, he discovered that his friend, a veteran with a distinguished service record, was suffering from the post-service trauma and mental anguish that plagues so many of our nation’s veterans and active-duty military...

  7. Kevin Hall & the Case of South Carolina’s “No Promo Homo” Law

    As a political heavy-hitter in South Carolina’s Republican Party, Kevin Hall is well-known as the go-to attorney for the state’s leading political figures. Kevin’s client list reads like a who’s who of South Carolina’s luminary politicians, including Senator Lyndsey Graham, Senator Tim Scott,...

  8. Jen DeTrani On CyberSecurity, Workplace Diversity, and Lawyering Like a Human Being

    At just 16, Jennifer “Jen” DeTrani started her professional career as an intern at the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). Later becoming an attorney at the Department of Justice (DOJ), Jen loved the issues and challenges that the “IC” (the national intelligence community) presented, but…

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  9. Mark Schamel & Defense of the Wrongfully Convicted

    “It is more important that innocence be protected than it is that guilt be punished, for guilt and crimes are so frequent in this world that they cannot all be punished. But if innocence itself is brought to the bar and condemned, perhaps to die, then the citizen will say, ‘whether I do good or...

  10. Peter Vincent - ICE, El Chapo & Public Service (Part 1) [S1:E1]

    Join TendingBar for Part 1 of an eye-opening and energizing conversation with Peter Vincent, General Counsel to ICE during the Obama administration, one of America's chief experts on criminal enterprise and terrorist organizations operating in Mexico and Central America! In Part 1 of Peter...

  11. Welcome to TendingBar! [S1:E0]

    TendingBar is a podcast that was designed, first and foremost, to encourage and inspire law students to think big about their futures. But it is also a podcast that shares conversations everyone should hear, because our guests have one thing in common: their careers are about something more than...

  12. Preview 3 – “So Many People”

    When Siaw Ching Lee was a little girl in a small town in Malaysia, she could only imagine a bigger world. Through hard work, perseverance, and the kindness of a host of people who believed in her, she became the first person from her hometown ever to become a lawyer. And eventually she found her...

  13. Preview 2: “What Really Matters”

    Keith Mendelson has been an anchor of the Northern Virginia corporate legal world since the region first became central to the Internet. After adventures in college and the Peace Corps, and after a brief tenure in Manhattan, Keith settled in to Northern Virginia when Tysons Corner was barely more...

  14. Preview 1: “Why the Law, Laura?”

    As we launch the TendingBar podcasting project, our aim is to explore the higher, better spirit within the legal profession. What motivates lawyers to pursue legal careers? What is their sense of service to the broader community? In this short audio-only preview, we asked one simple question…

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ABOUT THIS SHOW

Tending Bar talks with lawyers and other professionals about big ideas in the law. We celebrate the higher, better spirit of the legal profession that values service to others, and that works to build a good and just society. Hosted by Todd Harris.

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Tending Bar Media, LLC

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Tending Bar talks with lawyers and other professionals about big ideas in the law. We celebrate the higher, better spirit of the legal profession that values service to others, and that works to build a good and just society. Hosted by Todd Harris.

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TendingBar has 14 episodes. Check the episode list to see recent publication dates and frequency.

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