Articles Tagged with Lawyer2Lawyer

This week on the legal-affairs podcast Lawyer2Lawyer, we discuss the ABA Journal’s Legal Rebels project. Joining us for a rare in-studio conversation are the Journal’s editor and publisher Edward A. Adams and legal affairs writer Rachael M. Zahorsky, who were in the Boston…

This week on the legal-affairs podcast Lawyer2Lawyer, we look at the controversy over mandatory arbitration of consumer credit-card disputes. Here is the description of this week’s show from the Legal Talk Network, where you can listen to or download the complete program:

Mandatory arbitration in credit card agreements are in the legal spotlight

Why retire? So says attorney Jack Borden, who is in his law office at 6:30 every morning, doing what he loves — practicing law. This month, Borden celebrated two milestones — he had his 101st birthday and he was named America’s Outstanding Oldest Worker for 2009 by

The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office is understaffed and overwhelmed. Could the answer to its problems lie in crowdsourcing the patent-review process? Could crowdsourcing result in better patents?

This week on the legal-affairs podcast Lawyer2Lawyer, we look at the Peer-to-Patent system, an innovative pilot project run jointly by the USPTO and the…

We are honored to have Jack Greenberg as our guest this week on the legal-affairs podcast Lawyer2Lawyer to share his thoughts on the lessons to be learned from last week’s arrest of Harvard Professor Henry Louis Gates Jr. Greenberg was one of the lawyers, along with Thurgood Marshall, who argued Brown v. Board…

As President Obama pushes Congress to reform our nation’s health care system, this week’s edition of the legal-affairs podcast Lawyer2Lawyer considers the legal issues raised by the reform proposals. Helping us consider these issues are two experts in health law:…

Here is a behind-the-scenes look at the Legal Talk Network, the folks who produce the legal-affairs podcast I cohost, Lawyer2Lawyer.

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This week on the legal-affairs podcast Lawyer2Lawyer, we delve into the legal issues surrounding Michael Jackson’s will and family trust. Joining us are two experts in the field, Lawrence H. Heller, an international tax and estate planning attorney at the firm Bryan Cave,…

On May 31, Air France flight 447, out of Rio de Janeiro bound for Paris, seemed to vanish into thin air. A frantic search for passengers and the black boxes turned up some of the bodies and scattered parts, but no black boxes.

This week on the legal-affairs podcast Lawyer2Lawyer, we examine the lega…

This week on the legal-affairs podcast Lawyer2Lawyer, we consider the class-action lawsuit filed by college football and basketball players against EA Sports and the NCAA. The lawsuit claims that electronic games unlawfully appropriate the likenesses of these student athletes.

Our guests to discuss this issue are Peter Goplerud, dean and…

A former law clerk to Sonia Sotomayor, Jenny Rivera, now law professor at CUNY School of Law, and Supreme Court expert Stephen Wermiel, a former Wall Street Journal reporter and now adjunct professor at American University Washington College of Law, discuss the Sotomayor nomination on this week’s…

This week on the legal affairs podcast Lawyer2Lawyer, we look at the impact of the recession on lawyers and the legal profession.

In the first segment of the program, we discuss the recent rash of lawyer suicides and the problem of depression among lawyers. Joining us to discuss this is