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I Am The Law
I Am The Law takes a deep dive into the various practice areas and settings of law. We interview law school graduates with thought-provoking questions for an insider look into the realities of a career in law, recipes for success, and the biggest challenges lawyers face today.
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Understanding the Appeal: Supreme Litigation from First Draft to Oral Argument
Rachel Frank is a senior associate at Quinn Emanuel who focuses on appellate litigation. She discusses the journey from summer associate to working on...
Navigating Chaos: Triumphs and Trials of a Public Defender (replay)
Matt Skinner is a public defender with passion. Criminal defense is high-stakes, sometimes chaotic work that can be extremely difficult, but Matt navi...
Trading in Gray Areas: How Sanctions Shape International Business
For the government, sanctions and export controls are foreign policy tools. For businesses, they are legal minefields. Audi Syarief is a senior associ...
Sports & Entertainment Law: Making a Solo Firm Work Against the Odds (replay)
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 ow...
Administrative Hearings and Human Stories: Social Security Disability on the Frontlines
Through her social security disability practice, Asha Sharma represents clients who are often struggling with poverty, homelessness, and complex medic...
Trial by Algorithm: Helping Lawyers Navigate the AI Revolution
Joe Stephens operates at the intersection of cutting-edge technology and traditional legal practice. As both a trial consultant and public defender, h...
Law Firm to Law Professor: Tenure, Teaching, and Scholarship
Sudha Setty entered legal academia on a path less traveled—without a clerkship or teaching fellowship. While working as a litigation associate at an e...
Breaking Up the Business: Conflict, Mediation, and Resolution
Margeaux Thomas is the definition of lawyer meets entrepreneur. She specializes in business partnership disputes, landlord-tenant conflicts, and contr...
Leading with Vulnerability: From the Courtroom to the Community
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...
Second Chances: Rewriting Life Through Clemency
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 s...
From Clerkship to Private Practice: Research, Writing, and Challenging Assumptions
Alexis Taitel, a commercial litigator and fourth-year associate at a large firm, spent her first two years after law school clerking in federal distri...
Behind the Lease: Supporting Restaurant Expansion Through Real Estate Law
Eric Bernheim works at the intersection of real estate transactions and land use law—two areas that are often siloed but deeply interconnected in his...
Why They Chose Law: Family Ties, Media Influence, and Career Purpose
What really draws people to become lawyers? In this special bonus episode, we draw on previously unpublished clips with recent guests. You'll hear fro...
When the Feds Knock: Big Stakes in White-Collar Cases
Jaimie Nawaday is a former federal prosecutor and current white-collar defense and government investigations litigator. In this episode, she reflects...
Negotiating Stability: The Strategy and Strain of Eviction Defense
In this episode, Ezra Lintner (they/she), a legal aid lawyer in San Francisco, discusses defending evicted tenants in a city on the forefront of a civ...
Moonlighting into M&A: Tradeoffs in Practice
Mergers, acquisitions, hostile takeovers...if you've ever watched television lawyers arguing on the big screen, you’ll know these terms. For transacti...
Biglaw Class Action Litigation
Samm Tillotson is a commercial litigator at an elite law firm, where she spends a lot of time defending class action lawsuits for insurance clients. W...
From Prosecution to Campus Policy: Following the Investigative Thread
For Katie King, investigations have always been at the center of her work. As a federal prosecutor turned Title IX and institutional equity expert, sh...
Untangling Messy Records: The Defense Process in Securities Litigation
Tijana Brien, a partner at the elite law firm Cooley, specializes in high-stakes securities litigation. In this episode, she unpacks the complexities...
Dirt Law: Real Estate and Land Use Litigation
As a “dirt lawyer,” Don Pinto’s cases typically involve one party that wants to do something in real estate, and another party trying to stop it. Whet...
Inheritance Wars: A Battle of Wills
Lynette Paczkowski is a litigator at heart, and her career journey has taken her to the world of probate litigation. When a will is contested, the leg...
Medical Malpractice: From Error to Judgment
Adam Deutsch is a personal injury lawyer who litigates medical malpractice claims...and he loves what he does. Although he opted for lawyer rather tha...
Leaving Biglaw for a "Portfolio" Career
Former Biglaw attorney Cece Xie shares her unconventional journey from practicing law to building a portfolio career. After graduating law school, she...
Adapting to Biglaw: Getting Plugged into the Energy Sector
Juan Dawson is a junior associate at a newly merged megafirm. He’s one of the firm’s many energy industry lawyers – or, as he puts it, a "lawyer for e...
Passion Over Paychecks: Starting Strong in Public Defense
Victoria Nauman is a very recent law school graduate and state public defender. Like many law students, she entered law school intending to do some so...
Navigating Legal Career Crossroads: A Journey Through Law Firm Transitions
In this episode, Josh Offenhartz takes us through his career journey, marked by numerous transitions between law firms, sometimes sooner than he antic...
Employee Rights: One Client at a Time
Paige Sparks is an employee rights lawyer who specializes in discrimination claims. In this episode, Paige talks navigating the EEOC process for aggri...
Brick by Brick: Building an Idea into a Movement
Starting a nonprofit often sounds like a great idea, but execution requires vision, commitment, and grit. Laurie Robinson Hayden shares how she transi...
Happy Thanksgiving! What are lawyers thankful for?
Happy Thanksgiving! What are lawyers thankful for? The answers may surprise you. In this special episode, we share some previously-unreleased clips of...
Trust and Transparency: Immigration Advocacy Beyond and Within Borders
As an immigration lawyer, Jennifer Quezada builds trust within local communities that need legal help to bring families together. She works primarily...
Curiosity and the Cats: Developing Creative Legal Frameworks for Animal Protection
Big change requires massive action. That's true whether we're talking about Carney Anne Nasser's career path or her work as an animal protection lawye...
Episode #100: Legal Career Storytelling
In our 100th episode, hosts Kyle McEntee and Katya Valasek reflect on their legal backgrounds and how their journeys to, through, and after law school...
Partners by Law: Building a Life and Career in Law
Lana and Nick Kuchinski have done a lot together, from chemical engineering to law school to getting married. Though the episode features their unique...
Entertainment Deals and Strategy: Getting to Yes
Alexia Bedat is a U.K.-trained entertainment lawyer in New York City who predominately represents production companies in content deals, from podcasts...
Partners Against the Grain: Lawyers Suing Lawyers
Taking on high-profile cases is never easy, especially when you're suing fellow lawyers for legal malpractice. Ronnie Richter and Eric Bland have foun...
Courtroom Theater: Early-Career Complex Litigation at a Large Firm
Bola Adeniran is a theater kid turned mid-level associate at a large Dallas law firm. She practices complex litigation and it's a more natural progres...
Plusses and Minuses: Navigating HR with a Legal Mind
Seret Gonzalez is in human resources with a startup after years of practicing law and legal recruiting. Her legal background has proven helpful in HR,...
Corporate Restructuring: Dealmaking and Litigation to Avoid Financial Collapse
Kiran Vakamudi is a senior associate at an elite law firm who specializes in corporate restructuring for companies in financial trouble. When a compan...
Labor Relations: Before, During, and After Collective Bargaining Through Unions
Joe Richardson is a labor law lawyer with union clients, a seemingly significant pivot from his military service and defense contracting after college...
Legal Discipline: The Nicest Lawyer You Don't Want to Know
As Chief Disciplinary Counsel at the U.S. Virgin Islands Supreme Court, Tanisha Bailey-Roka protects legal consumers and the rule of law. She details...