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The Jabot — 219 episodes

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1

This Harvard Law School Grad Has The Progressive Answer To FedSoc

2

This Is Why Criminal Justice Needs Number Nerds

3

The Human Cost Of Our Broken Justice System

4

An Inside Look At The Law Firm's Law Firm

5

Lawyering With Empathy with Farid Yaghoubtil - Episode 214

6

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

7

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

8

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

9

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

10

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

11

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

12

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

13

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

14

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

15

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

16

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

17

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

18

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

19

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

20

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

21

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

22

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

23

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

24

Charting The Path To Mediator with Joann Rezzo - Episode 195

25

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

26

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

27

Judicial Philosophies Are Way Overrated with Mark Tushnet - Episode 192

28

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

29

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

30

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

31

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

32

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

33

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

34

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

35

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

36

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

37

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

38

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

39

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

40

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

41

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

42

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

43

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

44

From Child Star To Lawyer with Kelly Hyman - Episode 175

45

Exposing The Originalism Lie with Madiba Dennie - Episode 174

46

Helping Businesses Help Themselves with Peter Bronstein - Episode 173

47

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

48

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

49

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

50

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

51

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

52

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

53

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

54

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

55

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

56

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

57

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

58

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

59

Happy Lawyers Do Exist with Amanda Wolfman - Episode 160

60

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

61

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

62

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

63

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

64

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

65

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

66

The Case Against Family Court with Jane Spinak - Episode 153

67

A Legend In The Making with Nichad Davis - Episode 152

68

How Lawyers Can Prevent Burnout with Adrienne Prentice - Episode 151

69

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

70

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

71

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

72

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

73

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

74

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

75

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

76

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

77

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

78

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

79

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

80

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

81

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

82

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

83

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

84

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

85

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

86

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

87

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

88

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

89

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

90

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

91

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

92

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

93

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

94

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

95

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

96

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

97

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

98

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

99

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

100

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

101

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

102

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

103

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

104

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

105

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

106

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

107

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

108

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

109

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

110

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

111

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

112

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

113

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

114

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

115

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

116

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

117

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

118

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

119

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

120

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

121

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

122

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

123

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

124

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

125

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

126

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

127

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

128

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

129

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

130

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

131

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

132

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

133

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

134

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

135

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

136

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

137

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

138

Timing Really Is Everything with Anna Brook - Episode 81

139

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

140

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

141

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

142

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

143

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

144

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

145

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

146

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

147

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

148

The Problem With Identity Capitalists with Nancy Leong - Episode 71

149

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

150

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

151

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

152

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

153

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

154

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

155

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

156

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

157

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

158

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

159

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

160

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

161

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

162

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

163

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

164

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

165

The Color of Creatorship with Anjali Vats - Episode 54

166

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

167

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

168

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

169

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

170

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

171

Championing Latinx Causes with Anabel Rosa - Episode 48

172

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

173

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

174

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

175

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

176

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

177

ERA with Linda Coberly - Episode 42

178

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

179

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

180

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

181

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

182

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

183

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

184

Law School Diversity and Debt with Kyle McEntee - Episode 35

185

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

186

Leaving Biglaw with Stephanie Wilkins - Episode 33

187

The Stereotypes of Appalachia with Cassie Chambers - Episode 32

188

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

189

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

190

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

191

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

192

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

193

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

194

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

195

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

196

Boosting Diversity Through Innovation with Lisa Kirby - Episode 23

197

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

198

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

199

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

200

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

201

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

202

Diversity In Law Firms with Merle Vaughn - Episode 17

203

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

204

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

205

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

206

Diversity Policies On Law Reviews with Jonathan Masur - Episode 13

207

Career Changes And Transitions with Elena Deutsch - Episode 12

208

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

209

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

210

The Urban Meyer Investigation with Joe Patrice - Episode 9

211

Lawyers and Libraries with Meaghan McDermott - Episode 8

212

Poverty Privacy Rights with Khiara Bridges - Episode 7

213

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

214

Donna Wilson of Manatt - Episode 5

215

WMN Legal with Sienna Babb - Episode 4

216

Special Live Event with KIND

217

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

218

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

219

Corporette - Kat Griffin - Episode 1