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The Jabot — 228 episodes

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1

Building A Legal Practice That Fits Your Life

2

The Battle To Protect Ethical Prosecutors

3

Biglaw Partner Dishes On Her Unique Path To Partnership

4

What Nobody Tells You About Law School

5

The Link Between Financial Literacy and Social Justice

6

What It Takes for Women to Break Through in Litigation

7

What Lawyers Really Need To Know About Marketing

8

Medicine's Monopoly Problem

9

Building A Judicial Legacy

10

This Harvard Law School Grad Has The Progressive Answer To FedSoc

11

This Is Why Criminal Justice Needs Number Nerds

12

The Human Cost Of Our Broken Justice System

13

An Inside Look At The Law Firm's Law Firm

14

Lawyering With Empathy with Farid Yaghoubtil - Episode 214

15

Everyone's Law School Journey Is Unique with Victoria Inoyo - Episode 213

16

Democracy Has A Mass Incarceration Problem with Judith Resnik - Episode 212

17

You Can Walk Away From Biglaw And Have The Career Of Your Dreams with Marc Brown - Episode 211

18

Can AI Really Predict If You're Going To Win Your Case? with Sarah Johansson - Episode 210

19

Debrief: What It's REALLY Like To Open Your Own Firm with Margot Hoppin

20

Lawyer Turned Novelist Pens The Perfect Summer Read with Audrey Ingram - Episode 208

21

Law Professor On Why It's More Important Than Ever To Confront Racism with Susan Sturm - Episode 207

22

Building A Firm That's Better Than Biglaw with Laurice Rutledge Lambert and Jennifer Whitton - Episode 206

23

A Look At How The Law Fails Patients with Anna Kirkland - Episode 205

24

Work/Life Balance Doesn't Have To Be A Myth For Lawyers with Laura Cowan - Episode 204

25

3 Powerhouse Women At The Heart Of Evolving Florida Condo Law with Marnie Dale Ragan, Ariella Gutman, and Kara Olesky - Episode 203

26

Frustrated With Your Legal Career? You Can Do Something About That with Cecilia Poullain - Episode 202

27

Biglaw Partner Shares What It's Really Like To Work In Intellectual Property Law with Olga Berson - Episode 201

28

Getting Real About Being A Divorce Lawyer with Padideh Jafari - Episode 200

29

Climbing Through The Law Firm Ranks To Become Managing Partner with Cayce Lynch - Episode 199

30

What It Really Takes To Be On The Path To Biglaw Partnership with Jesse-Justin Cuevas - Episode 198

31

The Sidley Associate Arguing At The Supreme Court with Peter Bruland - Episode 197

32

The Reality Of The Death Penalty Is Even Worse Than You Think with Corinna Lain - Episode 196

33

Charting The Path To Mediator with Joann Rezzo - Episode 195

34

The Battle For The Heart Of The First Amendment Is Heating Up with David Enrich - Episode 194

35

Finding Your Perfect Spot In The Legal Profession with Lisa Landy - Episode 193

36

Judicial Philosophies Are Way Overrated with Mark Tushnet - Episode 192

37

You Can Actually Balance A Legal Career And Family Life with Edward Ortega - Episode 191

38

A Lawyer's Quest To Help Victims Of Abuse with Alreen Haeggquist - Episode 190

39

Playing Games With The Supreme Court with Talia Rosen - Episode 189

40

Who Gets To Call Themselves A 'Professional'? Law Professor Breaks Down The Licensing Scheme with Rebecca Haw Allensworth - Episode 188

41

The Fight For Rights Continues: The View From Legal Academia with Jackie Gardina - Episode 187

42

Criminal Defense Attorney Fights For Clients With Mental Disabilities with Elizabeth Kelley - Episode 186

43

You Have To Change How You Think About Free Speech with Mary Anne Franks - Episode 185

44

Using Your Law Degree For Good with Dale Margolin Cecka - Episode 184

45

Former Biglaw Partner Writes Biting Novel Dishing On What's Wrong With The Profession with Luba Shur - Episode 183

46

How To Create A Fulfilling Law Practice with Calyssa Zellars and Kya Henley - Episode 182

47

Harvard Law Grad Shares What You Really Need To Know Before Applying To Law School with Calandra Almond - Episode 181

48

Writing The Kind Of Legal Story You Want To Read with Lori Duff - Episode 180

49

Figuring Out If Family Law Is For You with Holly J. Moore - Episode 179

50

The Power Of Quitting Biglaw To Pursue A Childhood Dream with Jiadai Lin - Episode 178

51

Biglaw Firm Steps Up Big In Pro Bono with Rachel Elkin - Episode 177

52

Law As The First Step In Nuclear Weapon Abolition with Charles Moxley - Episode 176

53

From Child Star To Lawyer with Kelly Hyman - Episode 175

54

Exposing The Originalism Lie with Madiba Dennie - Episode 174

55

Helping Businesses Help Themselves with Peter Bronstein - Episode 173

56

Biglaw Partner Gets Real About Mentorship with Jane Arnold - Episode 172

57

The Journey From Incarceration To Law Student And Beyond with Jonas Caballero - Episode 171

58

Making The Journey From Biglaw To In-House with Catherine Dawson - Episode 170

59

Sexism And Harassment In Biglaw Are Nothing New with Erin Gordon - Episode 169

60

The Path To In-House with Dina Segal - Episode 168

61

A Work Partnership Makes All The Difference with Cara Bain and Allison Rosner - Episode 167

62

How To Go From Just A Lawyer To A Rainmaker with Sejal Patel - Episode 166

63

Law Firm Managing Partner Shares Her Journey To The Top with Frieda Garcia - Episode 165

64

Lawyers Need To Invest In Professional Development with Elise Holtzman - Episode 164

65

Decision Fatigue Might Be Hurting The Quality Of Your Work with Susan Myres - Episode 163

66

The Fight For Sane Gun Regulation Continues At The Supreme Court with Doug Letter and Shira Feldman - Episode 162

67

Civil Rights Are About More Than Liberation with Dylan Penningroth - Episode 161

68

Happy Lawyers Do Exist with Amanda Wolfman - Episode 160

69

Law Firm Mergers Are Opportunities For Women with Melinda Wallman - Episode 159

70

The Future of DEI with Natalie E. Norfus and Shanté S. Gordon - Episode 158

71

The Fight For Justice For The Last Colony with Philippe Sands - Episode 157

72

Kids Books And The Future Of The Legal Profession with Tiffany Obeng - Episode 156

73

Communication, Empathy, And Understanding In The Practice Of Law with Kelly Olivier and Allyson West - Episode 155

74

The Future Of The Legal Profession Must Be Diverse with Catherine Kemnitz - Episode 154

75

The Case Against Family Court with Jane Spinak - Episode 153

76

A Legend In The Making with Nichad Davis - Episode 152

77

How Lawyers Can Prevent Burnout with Adrienne Prentice - Episode 151

78

How Legal Ops Can Get You To Your Work Joy with Sumi Trombley - Episode 150

79

In The Trenches With A Family Law Attorney with Margaret Klaw - Episode 149

80

How Diversity On The Supreme Court Got So Partisan with Nancy Scherer - Episode 148

81

Working To Close The Gavel Gap with Sadiqa Reynolds - Episode 147

82

Instilling DEI into a Law Firm's Identity with Marlon Lutfiyya - Episode 146

83

Starting Your Own Law Firm To Make The World A Better Place with Margot Hoppin and Alanna Kaufman - Episode 145

84

Getting Yourself In The Right Mindset For Negotiation with Emily Poler - Episode 144

85

'Stalkerish' Behavior is not the Way to Sell your Legal Tech Product: Real Talk From a CLO with Jenny Hamilton - Episode 143

86

Biglaw Partner Ends The Gatekeeping And Shares What You Need To Know To Be Successful In An Appellate Practice with Michelle Kallen - Episode 142

87

What You Need To Know About The Biglaw Job Market with Jennifer Henderson - Episode 141

88

No One Else But You Is Going To Advocate For Your Career with Laura Bianchi - Episode 140

89

How Personal Experience Impacts This Immigration Lawyer's Work with Karine Sokpoh - Episode 139

90

Plaintiffs' Attorney Shares What It's Like To Hold Companies Responsible For The Opioid Epidemic with Jayne Conroy - Episode 138

91

Career Appellate Prosecutor Dishes On What It's Really Like To Argue Before The Supreme Court with Lisa Sarnoff Gochman - Episode 137

92

Biglaw Partner Shares Behind The Scenes Look At The Affirmative Action Case Before The Supreme Court with Ishan Bhabha - Episode 136

93

Legal Industry Harassment Is Not Rare, But Rarely Shared with Aliza Shatzman - Episode 135

94

The Rewarding Truth Behind A Legal Aid Career with Laurette Mulry - Episode 134

95

A Lifetime Of Fighting Against Injustice with Richard Zitrin - Episode 133

96

Biglaw Partner Leads Effort To Help Afghan Refugees with Grant Sovern - Episode 132

97

Biglaw Firm Gives Back To The Boys & Girls Club with Linda Benfield - Episode 131

98

The Heart And Soul Of Vermont Law School with Shirley Jefferson - Episode 130

99

Building A Practice Around Trauma-Informed Lawyering with Rena Paul and Margaret Gandy - Episode 129

100

Use Your Superpower In Your Legal Career with Shana Simmons - Episode 128

101

Balancing A Lawyer And A Novelist with Jessica Martin - Episode 127

102

Biglaw Associate Starts Scholarship To Pay It Forward with Imani Maatuka- Episode 126

103

Why Women Are Leaving The Law - And What To Do About It with Laura Leopard - Episode 125

104

The Work To End Sexual Harassment Is Always Going On with Alexandra Brodsky - Episode 124

105

This Lawyer Found The Silver Lining Of The Pandemic In A Kitchen with Danielle Caminiti - Episode 123

106

Mediator Shares Why She Loves What She Does with Joann Selleck - Episode 122

107

The Shoes Behind A Noteworthy Legal Career with Kellie Johnson - Episode 121

108

Working To Make Sure We Don't Live In A Theocracy with Elizabeth Platt - Episode 120

109

How To Change The Law On Periods According To Two Law Professors with Bridget Crawford and Emily Waldman - Episode 119

110

Fascinating Legal Career Spanning Public Interest, Government and Private Practice with Linda Priebe - Episode 118

111

The Tough Truth About Growing Your Own Firm with Carmen Rosas - Episode 117

112

How Sidley Creates A Positive Culture At The Firm with Yvette Ostolaza and Mike Schmidtberger - Episode 116

113

The Best Lessons On Being A Judge Come From Being A Parent with Katharine von Ter Stegge - Episode 115

114

Biglaw Partner On The Red Flags Of Toxic Workplaces with Anne Cortina Perry - Episode 114

115

Law Professor On The Future Of The First Amendment with Samantha Barbas - Episode 113

116

Work/Life Balance May Not Be Where It's At with Donna Edbril - Episode 112

117

Law Professors Reveal A History Of The Supreme Court You Never Knew with Hannah Brenner Johnson and Renee Knake Jefferson - Episode 111

118

This Biglaw Partner Has Never Seen A Lateral Market Like This One with Jodi Schwimmer - Episode 110

119

Biglaw Partner Gets Honest About How Hard Work/Life Balance Really Is with Tamra Moore - Episode 109

120

Inside Look At Biglaw Diversity Efforts with Renauld Clarke - Episode 108

121

Partner Dishes On Finding Your Ideal Practice with Jodi Warren - Episode 107

122

What You Need To Know: How The Courts Define Emojis with Leslie Garfield Tenzer - Episode 106

123

Lawyers Are The Heroes And The Villains In Alex Jones Defamation Case with Elizabeth Williamson - Episode 105

124

What Lawyers Really Need To Know To Grow Their Practice with Stephanie Wachman - Episode 104

125

Former Law Clerk Speaks Out About Her Experience With Harassment with Aliza Shatzman - Episode 103

126

From Jim Crow to Today, Voter Suppression Hasn't Changed That Much with Gilda Daniels - Episode 102

127

Law Professor On The Dichotomy Between The First Amendment And The Reality Of How Muslims Are Treated with Sahar Aziz - Episode 101

128

Making Biglaw Partner In The Time Of COVID with Jennifer Schramm - Episode 100

129

Veteran Real Estate Attorney Dishes on the Havoc COVID Has Brought to the Industry with Michelle Quinn - Episode 99

130

From Biglaw Partner To In House To Author with Mansi Shah - Episode 98

131

The Equal Rights Amendment Isn't Just Your Grandmother's Civil Rights Movement with Ting Ting Cheng and Kati Hornung - Episode 97

132

Being the Kind of Lawyer That Actually Makes The World a Better Place with Heather Weigler - Episode 96

133

The Corrosive Effects of Ignoring Diversity with Peter Lynch - Episode 95

134

Being a Law Firm Partner Is About More Than Just the Hours You Bill with Emer Simic - Episode 94

135

Insults Are Undermining Your Civil Rights with Ruth Colker - Episode 93

136

Harnessing the Power of Women Entrepreneurs with Gabriela Isturiz - Episode 92

137

The Quest For Justice Shapes A Legal Career with Elizabeth Todd - Episode 91

138

Helping New Parents Return to the Office -- The Legal Profession Can Do Better with Lori Mihalich-Levin - Episode 90

139

Small Law Can Be Just the Right Size For You with Yvonne Cort - Episode 89

140

Judge Sounds Off On How to Fix a Broken Judicial System with Judge LaDoris Hazzard Cordell - Episode 88

141

Supreme Court Justices Are People Too with Joshua Prager - Episode 87

142

How Lawyers Can Find Their North Star with Terrie Campbell - Episode 86

143

Biglaw Partner Dishes On the Pandemic's Impact On the Cannabis Industry, Diversity and Fulfilling Your Family's Legacy with Meghana Shah - Episode 85

144

Sometimes Dealing With Jerks Just Isn't Worth It with Fran Perdomo - Episode 84

145

The Legal World's Cassandra Has A Lot To Tell Us with Linda Hirshman - Episode 83

146

Behind Biglaw's Dismal Diversity Numbers with Kerry Benn - Episode 82

147

Timing Really Is Everything with Anna Brook - Episode 81

148

Yes, You Can Balance Kids, Horses and Biglaw Partnership with Christi Campbell - Episode 80

149

Creating an 'All Girls Network' with Michelle Browning - Episode 79

150

It's All About the Money with Betiayn Tursi - Episode 78

151

It's Been Quite The Year For Business Interruption Insurance -- Just Ask This Biglaw Partner with Linda Kornfeld - Episode 77

152

Biglaw Document Review Is The Perfect Backdrop For A Legal Thriller with Lindsay Cameron - Episode 76

153

An Outsider's Perspective on the Legal industry with Ritu Khanna - Episode 75

154

The History of Female Law Professors with Patricia Cain - Episode 74

155

How a Partner's Fear of Flying Turned Into a Legacy for His Children with Mark Hsu - Episode 73

156

The Supreme Court's Legacy On Race with Vernon Burton and Armand Derfner - Episode 72

157

The Problem With Identity Capitalists with Nancy Leong - Episode 71

158

Who in Biglaw is Most Excited to Go Back to the Office? with Stacey Breen - Episode 70

159

Best Friends and Firm Co-Founders On the Best Way to Run a Virtual Practice with Kelly Culhane and Heather Clauson Haughian - Episode 69

160

How Women Can Use Networking to Leverage the Hot Lateral Market with Lauren Drake - Episode 68

161

What Students Absolutely Need to Do to Ace Law School with Shailini George - Episode 67

162

Why Saying "No" to Business Can Actually Pay Off with Thomas Douglas - Episode 66

163

What Law Firms Need to Do to Support New Parents with Elle McCulty - Episode 65

164

Inside the World Of Biglaw Diversity Efforts with Maria Melendez - Episode 64

165

From Biglaw to Criminal Justice Reform with MiAngel Cody - Episode 63

166

Access to Justice in More Than Just the Criminal Context with Jennifer McGlone - Episode 62

167

Making the Most of Your Working From Home Legal Practice with Becky Greenfield and Cristina Rodriguez - Episode 61

168

A Biglaw Firm That Really Cares with Katya Jestin and Randy Mehrberg - Episode 60

169

Making Lasting Changes in the Legal Industry with Sona Pancholy - Episode 59

170

Bridging the Diversity Gap in the Legal Profession with Brandi Russell - Episode 58

171

The Life and Legacy of Ruth Bader Ginsburg with Amanda Tyler - Episode 57

172

Making Diversity Part of the Fabric of Your Law Firm with Kerry Shad and Sharita Whitaker - Episode 56

173

Creating Space In Male Dominated Fields with Jacqueline Duval - Episode 55

174

The Color of Creatorship with Anjali Vats - Episode 54

175

Chat with Attorney, Author, Speaker, and Activist: Robyn Gigl - Episode 53

176

Finding Your Niche in the Legal Profession with Ifeoma "Iffy" Ibekwe - Episode 52

177

The Unconventional Path to Biglaw Partnership with David Moreno - Episode 51

178

Helping Biglaw Get Better About Diversity with Laura Leopard - Episode 50

179

Making the Legal Industry More Human with Leigh Vickery - Episode 49

180

Championing Latinx Causes with Anabel Rosa - Episode 48

181

Sexual Harassment Settlement That Could Change an Entire Industry with Molly J. Bowen and Julie Goldsmith Reiser - Episode 47

182

Biglaw Firm's Latest Racial Equality Work with Eva J. Pulliam - Episode 46

183

The Lawyer Behind the Hollywood Inclusion Rider and Other Strategies for Workplace Diversity with Kalpana Kotagal - Episode 45

184

The Injustice of Criminal Convictions Without Any Crimes with Jessica S. Henry - Episode 44

185

Erasure of Native Voices in Law School Experience Study - Episode 43

186

ERA with Linda Coberly - Episode 42

187

Diversity and Federal Clerkships with Danielle Barondess and Steven Arango - Episode 41

188

Biglaw Pro Bono in the Wake of the George Floyd Protests with Tai-Heng Cheng - Episode 40

189

How the Recent Black Lives Matter Protests are Changing Biglaw -- Hopefully for the Better with Lia Dorsey - Episode 39

190

Interview with Christina Moore, partner at Taylor English Duma LLP - Episode 38

191

Diversity Initiative Aims to Proactively Combat Effects of COVID-19 with Kori Carew - Episode 37

192

The In-House Counsel Gender Pay Gap with Eliza Stoker - Episode 36

193

Law School Diversity and Debt with Kyle McEntee - Episode 35

194

Expanding Your Firm During COVID-19 with Kelly Rittenberry Culhane and James Meadows - Episode 34

195

Leaving Biglaw with Stephanie Wilkins - Episode 33

196

The Stereotypes of Appalachia with Cassie Chambers - Episode 32

197

Mental Health + Working Parents in the Legal Industry with Summer Eberhard - Episode 31

198

Technology and the Legal Industry Diversity Gap with Sara Eng - Episode 30

199

Our Deadly Devotion to Guns and Free Speech with Mary Anne Franks - Episode 29

200

Breastfeeding, Race, and Injustice with Andrea Freeman - Episode 28

201

The Future of Experienced Female Lawyers in Private Practice with Roberta D. Liebenberg and Stephanie A. Scharf - Episode 27

202

Dana Rosenfeld was recently announced as Kelley Drye's Managing Partner, beginning in January 2020

203

Adding Value as a Project Manager with Jessica Robinson - Episode 25

204

A Legal Recruiter That Traveled Around The World with Kate Reder- Episode 24

205

Boosting Diversity Through Innovation with Lisa Kirby - Episode 23

206

LAWCLERK: Where Attorneys Go to Hire Freelance Lawyers with Kristin Tyler - Episode 22

207

Women's Relationships with Other Women at Work Can Be Difficult with Andrea S. Kramer and Al Harris - Episode 21

208

What Do Breadwinner Women Lawyers Want? with Jen Dawson - Episode 20

209

Diversity On Big Firms with Lynnette D. Espy-Williams - Episode 19

210

You Can Only Do What You Want To Do With Kate Baxter-Kauf - Episode 18

211

Diversity In Law Firms with Merle Vaughn - Episode 17

212

Reformed Litigator, Award-Winning Author with Amy Impellizzeri - Episode 16

213

Getting Dressed For Work with Victoria S. Nugent - Episode 15

214

Mom, Lawyer, And Author with Jill Diamond - Episode 14

215

Diversity Policies On Law Reviews with Jonathan Masur - Episode 13

216

Career Changes And Transitions with Elena Deutsch - Episode 12

217

Diapers, Date Nights and Deadlines with Julie-Anne Lutfi - Episode 11

218

Starting Up Your Own Law Firm with Cori Robinson - Episode 10

219

The Urban Meyer Investigation with Joe Patrice - Episode 9

220

Lawyers and Libraries with Meaghan McDermott - Episode 8

221

Poverty Privacy Rights with Khiara Bridges - Episode 7

222

Maria Vathis: Federal Bar Associate President-Elect - Episode 6

223

Donna Wilson of Manatt - Episode 5

224

WMN Legal with Sienna Babb - Episode 4

225

Special Live Event with KIND

226

Dealing With Terrible Situations At Work with Jennifer Koza - Episode 3

227

How To Be Sort Of Happy In Law School - Kathryne M. Young - Episode 2

228

Corporette - Kat Griffin - Episode 1