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Above the Law - Thinking Like a Lawyer

Legal Talk Network

Thinking Like A Lawyer is a podcast featuring Above the Law"s Joe Patrice, Kathryn Rubino, and Chris Williams. Each episode, the hosts will take a topic experienced and enjoyed by regular people, and shine it through the prism of a legal framework. This will either reveal an awesome rainbow of thought, or a disorienting kaleidoscope of issues. Either way, it should be fun.

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25:04

For Clients, It's Important To Pay Bills On Time Too

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2020/04/14

Long pay cycles aren't just a problem for outside counsel.

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23:17

In Extraordinary Times, Lawyers Need Creative Solutions

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2020/04/07

The power of flexibility.

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27:25

Law Schools Struggle With COVID Response

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2020/03/31

Joe and Kathryn check in from the Above the Law bunker to discuss law schools and the virus. While many schools quickly adopted pass/fail grading options others have held out, hoping to maintain some sense of normalcy. Are there really employers who will look back at Spring 2020 grades and think they're informative?

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33:19

Building A Video Game Practice

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2020/03/24

Since we last spoke, this guest has leveled up.

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32:13

Crushing It On Test Prep

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2020/03/19

Joe chats with Adam Balinski, founder of Crushendo, a test prep program focused on maximizing human memory. Auditory courses with a strong emphasis on tried and true memory hacks like location association and mnemonic devices, all worked into short, repeatable episodes you can listen to while going about your day.

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28:08

Mixed Martial Law

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2020/03/10

Joe welcomes back Jason Cruz from our earlier "Step Inside The Octagon" episode to discuss his new book "Mixed Martial Arts and the Law". From antitrust to labor law to performance enhancing drugs, there's a lot more law going into this sport than you might expect for a cage match where people kick each other in the face.

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32:14

The Psychology of Document Review

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2020/02/25

Dealing with thousands of documents presents a lot of challenges.

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31:32

Election Law Special With Rick Hasen

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2020/02/18

Discussing Iowa and the challenges to American democracy.

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33:50

What's Up With Alan Dershowitz These Days

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2020/02/04

After taking the spotlight in the impeachment trial... should we have all seen this coming?

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38:43

Speaking Of Legal Farce

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2020/01/28

Checking in on Elie after a solid week of watching wall to wall impeachment coverage and the wear of the marathon coverage is starting to show. There's not much "legal" about this trial, but we're going to parse through what we can. We also talk a little about Tulsi Gabbard's high stakes defamation suit against Hillary Clinton for calling the Hawaii representative a Russian asset. As a lawsuit it may not come together, but does Gabbard have a moral point?

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36:49

Life On The Other Side Of The V

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2020/01/21

Joe and Elie chat with Edelson PC about the tech-oriented plaintiff and class action firm's work from protecting biometric privacy rights to addressing sexual misconduct in youth sports with partner Chris Dore and associates Aaron Lawson and Sydney Janzen.

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30:02

Non-Equity Means Non-Partner

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2020/01/14

More and more firms are adopting a non-equity partner tier, delaying equity consideration while extracting maximum value from high billing but relatively lowly paid senior attorneys tied to the job by the dangling hope of a future promotion that may never arrive.

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31:06

In Memoriam... To All The Law Firms We Lost Last Decade

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2020/01/08

With the 2010s wrapping up, Joe and Kathryn focus on all the law firms we've lost over the last decade. Industry pressures, bad strategies, and fraud allegations managed to put several former mainstays to rest over the last 10 years. What lessons can we take from the demise of these once-proud firms? Where is this whole profession heading? Will this next recession finish off what 2009 started?

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15:44

The Top Stories of 2019

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2019/12/30

To close out the year, Joe runs down the top 10 stories of the year at Above the Law. Are there key insights or interesting trends to be gained from reviewing the site’s traffic figures? Probably not, but here we are.

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30:29

Impeachapalooza

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2019/12/23

The president of the United States was impeached for only the third time in history. Let the obscure legal theorizing begin! Joe and Elie break down the curious argument that the House doesn’t even need to hand over the articles.

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32:55

The Happiest Time Of The Year: Bonus Time!

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2019/12/17

It's bonus season in Biglaw, and the major firms are slowly but surely rolling out their bonus announcements and telling associates what they'll be getting in their stockings this year. But Elie sees a bit of a Scrooge in the early first move and slow matching cycle. What's going on with the legal market and are we really looking at a recession in the making?

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26:09

The One Thing That Might Force Law Schools To Be More...

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2019/12/10

The "practice-ready" law school model is oft-discussed and rarely implemented, but maybe technology will finally force law schools to focus on teaching practical skills. Joe and Kathryn chat with Jessica Robinson, Vice President of Client Services at Casepoint about the maturation of the eDiscovery process, the project management lessons that fuel effective discovery, and the importance of learning the theory of discovery before entering an increasingly automating practice.

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30:14

Fighting For The Innocent (Rebroadcast)

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2019/12/03

Mark Godsey discusses his conversion to an advocate for the wrongfully convicted and his grasp of the psychology that consistently lands the wrong people in prison.

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35:28

The Roberts Court Is Here

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2019/11/26

With Kavanaugh's arrival, the last Term provided a glimpse of the fully armed and operational Roberts Court.

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35:08

Preparing For The Bar Exam -- The Last Test You'll...

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2019/11/19

Joe and Elie chat with Rich Douglas, COO of Themis, about the bar exam and how to conquer it. Rich also tells us about the Themis Law School Essentials program of free review materials for law school courses and we discuss the impact the GRE is going to have on law school admissions.

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