Articles Tagged with Lawyer2Lawyer

When Hurricane Ike hit the Texas coast, lawyers were not spared. Many lawyers were hard hit in both their profesisonal and personal lives. On this week’s episode of the legal-affairs podcast Lawyer2Lawyer, my cohost J. Craig Williams and I interview Bill Livesay, executive director of Andrews Kurth LLP in Houston, and…

Our Lawyer2Lawyer podcast this week looks at the fall of Lehman Brothers and the largest bankruptcy case in U.S. history. Read further details about this episode and listen to or download it from this LegalTalkNetwork page.…

Last week, the FBI arrested blogger Kevin Cogill (a/k/a Skwerl) of Culver City, Calif., on suspicion of violating a federal copyright law for posting nine tracks to his blog from the unreleased and much anticipated Guns N’ Roses album Chinese Democracy. On this week’s legal-affairs podcast Lawyer2Lawyer, we discuss…

It all started when three MIT students put together a presentation for their network security class at MIT about their findings regarding the security vulnerabilities of the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority’s CharlieCard fare-pass system. Just as the students were about to present their findings at DEFCON, the MBTA went to federal court and won a…

Are you a listener to our legal-affairs podcast Lawyer2Lawyer? If so, we’d like to have you as a guest on a special program to mark our third anniversary later this month. We know you’re out there — our podcast last month had more than 40,000 downloads. For our anniversary show, we’d like to learn…

Legendary trial lawyer Gerry Spence is our special guest this week on the legal-affairs podcast Lawyer2Lawyer. Spence came to national prominence for handling the Karen Silkwood case and was most recently in the news for winning an acquittal for Michigan lawyer Geoffrey Fieger. He has…

A $1 billion lawsuit by Viacom accuses Google’s video-sharing Web site, YouTube, of violating its copyrights. Last week, Google and Viacom reached an agreement to allow Google to mask user information from records before handing them over to Viacom. On this week’s legal-affairs podcast Lawyer2Lawyer, my co-host J. Craig…

Unless something is done to change its course, the future of the Internet, as Jonathan Zittrain sees it, is one of far less innovation and far more — and far more ominous — control. Zittrain, who just became a tenured professor at Harvard Law School, discusses his…

U.S. District Judge Nancy Gertner, who attracted the attention of bloggers and the news media earlier this year when she joined the roster of contributors to the new Slate legal blog, Convictions, shares her thoughts on judicial blogging and judicial speech in this week’s episode of our legal-affairs podcast

Another term has ended for our nation’s highest court, so we’ve recruited two Supreme Court experts to wrap-up the term’s most significant opinions and most influential justices, as well as to shaire their thoughts on the future of the court in a presidential election year. Joining us this week on the legal-affairs podcast Lawyer2Lawyer…

One of the best law-related podcasts will record its last program June 30. After nine years on the air, Justice Talking, the NPR radio program about law and American life, which is also available as a weekly podcast, has run out of funding. In a post on the program’s companion site, Talking…

Does the U.S. need any more law schools? That is the topic we discuss this week on our legal-affairs podcast Lawyer2Lawyer. The National Law Journal recently reported that as many as 10 new law schools are in the works, most of them on the East…