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Unprecedented
by Ben Hancock
“Unprecedented” is a biweekly podcast hosted by Law.com reporter Ben Hancock about technology, the law, and the future of litigation. Based in San Francisco, Ben writes about third-party litigation finance, legal data analytics, artificial intelligence, privacy, and related issues. Listen to more Law.com podcasts here.
Episodes
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Verbal Threat Received by a Federal Judge - Explicit Content!
Warning: This clip is for a Law.com story. It is a threat made against a Federal Judge. It contains extreme harsh explicit language. Listener discretion is advised.
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Trump Sentencing
Trump Sentencing Audio
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We Have Moved!
Hello Unprecedented listeners. We've been in the process of transitioning this podcast to a new home and a new format. From here on out, you can find future episodes of Unprecedented over on the Legalspeak podcast, hosted by Law.com's Vanessa Blum and Leigh Jones. Every three or four weeks, I'll…
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The CFAA, Blockchain, and Why the 'Best Lawyers Would Qualify as Hackers
Alexander Urbelis of New York's Blackstone Law Group describes his unusual career path from getting involved with 2600: The Hacker Quarterly, to becoming a lawyer for the U.S. Army JAG Corps and the CIA, and later joining Big Law. He also discusses the evolution of the Computer Fraud and Abuse…
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David Howard, Microsoft's Head of Litigation: Why Tech Is Fighting the U.S. Government
Microsoft is going head-to-head with the Department of Justice at the U.S. Supreme Court later this month over law enforcement access to data stored overseas. In this episode, David Howard, a former federal prosecutor who's now the head of litigation at Microsoft Corp., explains what's at stake…
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The Smart Contracts Are Coming: An Interview With Cardozo Law's Aaron Wright
In this special episode of Law.com's Unprecedented podcast, we talk with Aaron Wright, an associate clinical professor at Cardozo Law School in New York City and director of the school's Blockchain Project. Cardozo has been significantly expanding its initiatives with the technology since 2014,...
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Scott Reents: AI, Analytics, and How Cravath Is Embracing Technology
At ALM's upcoming Legalweek conference, one of the major overarching themes is how artificial intelligence will change the practice of law. In this episode of Law.com's "Unprecedented" podcast, we talk with one of the speakers at the event—Scott Reents, the lead attorney for data analytics and...
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Heather Meeker: Big Trends in Open Source Software and the Law
Recent months have seen important legal developments in the open source software world. Large organizations including Facebook, Google and the Linux kernel community have adopted new enforcement policies around copyright licenses. And Facebook saw major blowback over patent rules in its open…
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Episode 20 - End of Year
In the final episode of Unprecedented for 2017, host Ben Hancock talks with Ross Todd, bureau chief of Law.com's California news site The Recorder, about the big legal battles in tech for the coming year. There's the looming trial in Waymo v. Uber, litigation over the Tezos initial coin offering,...
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Joshua Ashley Klayman: Bitcoin, ICOs, and Token Presales -- From a Regulatory Perspective
The chair of the Wall Street Blockchain Alliance Legal Working Group helps interpret the debate over how digital tokens fit into a regulatory framework created in a much different era.
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Nathan Wessler: The Fourth Amendment and the 'GPS' in our Pockets
This week on Law.com's Unprecedented podcast we talk with Nathan Wessler, a staff attorney with the ACLU's Speech, Privacy, and Technology Project. Wessler will be arguing against the Department of Justice on Wednesday at the U.S. Supreme Court in Carpenter v. U.S.
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Riana Pfefferkorn: The Looming Battle in the Crypto Wars
This week on Law.com's Unprecedented podcast we talk with Riana Pfefferkorn, a fellow at the Center for Internet and Society at Stanford Law School focusing on cryptography.
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Brynly Llyr: Ripple and the Legal Challenges Facing Cryptocurrencies
This week on Law.com's Unprecedented podcast we talk to Brynly Llyr, general counsel at Ripple Labs, a blockchain company focused on facilitating cross-border money transfers. Llyr talks about the legal challenges facing cryptocurrencies and the emerging fintech sector, and how the landscape is…
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Gillian Hadfield: How the Field of Law Needs to Change
This week on the Law.com Unprecedented podcast, we hear from Gillian Hadfield, a professor at the University of Southern California's Gould School of Law and author of Rules for a Flat World: Why Humans Invented Law and How to Reinvent It for a Complex Global Economy.
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James Lee: Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Litigation
Duration: 00:25:36 This week on Law.com's Unprecedented podcast, we hear from James Lee, CEO and co-founder of legal AI startup LegalMation. Lee, also a litigator and managing partner at LTL Attorneys in Los Angeles, talks about the potential and limitations of applying artificial intelligence to...
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The Perils of Being a Judge on Social Media
Duration: 44:45 For an institution that is supposed to appear at all times above the fray, it can get tricky when members of the judiciary decide to accept a Facebook friend request or even just retweet a news article. A set of federal and state appellate court decisions over the summer offered...
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Online Sex Trafficking, Emojis, and How the Internet Has Changed Law
Duration: 39:31 When Eric Goldman started practicing law, the Internet was a different place from the one we know today: a world of dial-up bulletin boards and web precursors like "Usenet" and "Gopher." The legal aspects of cyberspace were murky at best. "I joined the Cooley Godward firm in Palo...
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What's Next in Legal Tech? A Podcast From Stanford's FutureLaw
Duration: 22:08 The legal profession is hardly immune to the changes being wrought by technology. And Stanford University's CodeX Center—a partnership between its law school and computer science department—has been a significant contributor to those changes in recent years as an incubator for…
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What You Need to Know About the Future US-EU Data Regime
Duration: 28:36 Attorneys trying to keep up with the legal landscape surrounding transfers of data between the United States and the European Union have had their work cut out for them the last few years. First, the U.S.-EU "Safe Harbor" framework was scrapped by the EU high court. Just as that…
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Suing For Security and The Internet of Things
Duration: 22:50 The Internet of Things has a certain allure. You can set your home at just the right temperature, or ask Alexa about the First Amendment. But if there was one takeaway from the Mirai botnet debacle that weaponized over a million internet cameras, it was this: a lot of these…
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Big Tech's Fight Over Foreign-Stored Data: A Podcast With Morgan Lewis Partner Mark Krotoski
Duration: 20:01 How far should the arm of the law reach when it comes to data stored overseas? That's a question that courts continue to struggle with, even after U.S. tech companies scored a landmark win last year in favor of limiting what authorities can obtain when it comes to foreign-stored...
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Will the DNC Hack Lawsuit Expose Trump-Russia Ties?
Duration: 32:18 In this episode of Unprecedented, we talk with Cogan Schneier, a reporter for The National Law Journal who wrote about the groundbreaking privacy and civil rights lawsuit when it was filed last week. "While the lawsuit doesn't have any smoking gun … if it were to make it past the...
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Driverless Cars and Liability: A Podcast on Legal questions Around Autonomous Vehicles
Duration: 19:38 Autonomous vehicles have been in the news a lot lately. Tesla Motors was just hit with a class action lawsuit alleging that its autopilot technology puts drivers in danger when engaged. And in March, the California Department of Motor Vehicles released proposed regulations for…
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Google's Courtoom Collision With Uber
Duration: 21:16 The lawsuit by Waymo, Google's autonomous car division, against Silicon Valley rival Uber is not your normal trade secrets case. The litigation has moved at a breakneck clip since being launched at the end of February. Waymo has alleged an elaborate plot by Uber to steal highly...
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Former Top NSA Lawyer Talks Spying, Leaks and Cybersecurity in the Age of Trump
Duration: 34:11 When Rajesh De was first approached about joining the National Security Agency as its general counsel, advisers warned him he might be the last person standing between a free democracy and an Orwellian surveillance program. The reality wasn't quite so dramatic, says De, who also...
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A Half-Billion Dollar Bet: Burford Director Dishes on Lit Funding Industry's Future
Duration: 28:49 The litigation finance industry is heating up in the U.S. as new funders enter the market and hire away Big Law attorneys to fill their ranks. Another sign of this trend: Burford Capital, one of the largest litigation funders, recently announced it had poured almost half a billion...
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“Unprecedented” is a biweekly podcast hosted by Law.com reporter Ben Hancock about technology, the law, and the future of litigation. Based in San Francisco, Ben writes about third-party litigation finance, legal data analytics, artificial intelligence, privacy, and related issues. Listen to more Law.com podcasts here.
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