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The iconic television jurist discusses her 15 years as Judge Sheindlin on the New York family court bench. Not surprisingly, her guiding principle was that people must take personal responsibility for their actions.
The master legal storyteller is also deeply passionate about the injustice of wrongful convictions. He discusses the use of fiction to address a very real subject.
The best-selling author in the world discusses the career of Barry Slotnick, who achieved renown for securing acquittal after acquittal in some of New York's highest-profile cases.
The United Nations Ambassador set out to be a sports journalist. She discusses her road to becoming a diplomat. It started the day she asked herself if she “should be doing something more useful than thinking about sports all the time.”
The former SCOTUS Justice discusses the competing methods used by Supreme Court Justices to interpret statutes and the Constitution and why he favors one over another.
The NBA legend discusses his lifetime as an athlete promoting social justice and how today's athletes can build on what he and others started.
The man who played “The Fonz,” a character who defined cool, discusses his own struggle with self-confidence.
The former congressman discusses the art of persusasuon. A skill he developed in Washington and during this younger days as a prosecutor in South Carolina.
The former senator and vice-presidential candidate discusses the importance of lawyers representing unpopular clients.
The lawyer turned wildly-successful novelist discusses his escape from the legal profession and offers advice to escapee-hopefuls.
The man called "the nicest judge in America" discusses his social media fame and background that made him who he is.
The long-time television legal analyst discusses his career reporting on trials and book on Abraham Lincoln as a lawyer.
The long-time United States Senator discusses being influenced by his father’s role as the second-ranking prosecutor at the Nuremberg trial.
The nation’s foremost First Amendment lawyer discusses winning Citizens United, what the Founding Fathers would have said about flag burning and his First Amendment crystal ball.
The man New York magazine named “Best Criminal Lawyer in New York” discusses his long career and why he has one of the hardest jobs in America.
The former New Mexico governor discusses negotiating with despots to win the release of individuals wrongly detained.
On its 50th anniversary, Peter Benchley's widow discusses what her husband said Jaws is really about. And it's not a shark.
The legendary power broker discusses his work as a civil rights leader.
The Montgomery, Alabama lawyer discusses his work for a couple of famous clients – Rosa Parks and Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
The former overall #1 NFL draft pick discusses the breaking of the NFL color barrier.
On what would have been his 100th birthday, Rodney Dangerfield’s widow reflects on the legendary comic’s life.
The former U.S. Senator from Alabama discusses his prosecution of the Birmingham church bombing case.
The world’s most famous computer hacker discusses his transition from federal prisoner to “white hat hacker.”
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s lawyer and speech writer discusses his role in drafting the “I have a dream” speech.
The former NBA player discusses his career as a lawyer and 20 years behind the microphone for CBS’s coverage of the NCAA Men’s Basketball Tournament.
The sports agent known as the “real Jerry Maguire” discusses the impact of “name, image and likeness” on lawyers.
The famed forensic pathologist discusses medical examiners who see themselves as part of the prosecution team and not independent scientists.
The 9-term Congressman from Kansas discusses his diverse career, which included Clinton's cabinet and Chairman/CEO of the Motion Picture Association of American.
President Biden’s Chief of Staff discusses counseling the president and Supreme Court nominees, as well as making a very difficult phone call with historic implications.
The former U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York, fired by President Trump, discusses his time on the job, the “Trump effect” and how not to get hired at the SDNY.
The former member of the House, Chief of Staff to a President, Director of the CIA and Secretary of Defense discusses how it all started -- with a law degree.
The short-lived White House director of communications for President Trump discusses his path from a hardscrabble background to Harvard Law School to founding a hedge fund company.
The Chicago public interest lawyer discusses winning The New Yorker “Caption Contest” more times than any other person.
The retired D.C. Circuit judge discusses how his blindness affected his career on the nation’s second highest court.
The author who created the modern legal thriller with “Presumed Innocent” discusses “Testimony,” the fictional account of a lawyer who investigates the disappearance of refugees in Bosnia, and “One L,” the book that made him the most famous law student in history.
The lawyer known for countless high-profile cases discusses some of her lesser-known, ground-breaking work.
The man who spent 35 years as Manhattan’s District Attorney discusses his career and tells me the greatest story I’ve ever heard.
The former O.J. Simpson prosecutor discusses being a criminal defense attorney, her fiction writing and what it was like being on the cover of MAD magazine.
The woman widely-known as the “Tiger Mom” discusses whether she is also the Tiger law professor at Yale – and her former student, Vice President J.D. Vance, gives me his thoughts on his mentor.
The legendary D.C. lawyer discusses his long career. He’s been no potted plant keeping the government honest.
The retired Florida judge says the entire law school curriculum can be taught using only cases about baseball. He’s exaggerating, but not by much.
The long-time environmental lawyer discusses his years of work helping ordinary people stop others from polluting of the nation’s waterways.
Vince Lombardi, Jr. and Vince Lombardi, II
Vince Lombardi dropped out of Fordham Law School after one semester and went to work coaching high school football. But his son and grandson became lawyers. They discuss their legal careers and connections to the legendary coach.
The one-time chief counsel for the U.S. Food and Drug Administration discusses his famous invention -- the nutrition label on foods.
The former U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Georgia discusses the letter he wrote to Richard Jewell’s lawyer, informing him that his client was cleared of involvement in the bombing at the 1996 Atlanta Olympics.
The well-known judge of the Southern District of New York discusses how to fix a broken legal system.
The “Golden State Killer” case went unsolved for four decades. The former patent lawyer discusses how she and a team of six, using genetic genealogy, needed only 63 days and $217 to solve it.
The man with a 9th grade education discusses teaching himself the law behind bars and winning his freedom from a life sentence for murder. Then the jailhouse lawyer went to law school and became a “real” lawyer.
The Jesuit priest and professor at Gonzaga Law School discusses his other job on campus -- team chaplain for Gonzaga’s elite basketball program.
The twice member of the U.S. Olympic cycling team discusses going to law school and becoming the nation’s first “Bicycle Attorney.”
The renowned civil rights lawyer, who argued Obergefell v. Hodges before the U.S. Supreme Court, making same-sex marriage legal throughout the country, discusses how the case has impacted the landscape of LGBTQ law.
John Lennon’s former lawyer discusses his two-year ticket to ride as the former Beatle’s lawyer in a case over rights to an album, which included a lengthy trial in the Southern District of New York.
The former member of the U.S. Olympic curling team discusses the sport and her post-Olympic transition to law student and corporate lawyer.
Mark Cuban gave his brother Brian tickets for the NBA finals. He traded them to his drug dealer for cocaine. Brian, an alcoholic in law school and coke addicted lawyer, discusses his road to overcoming addiction.
Jacob Pomrenke and David Fletcher
Baseball historians discuss the discovery of a long-lost trial transcript concerning the 1919 Black Sox Scandal that sheds light on “Shoeless” Joe Jackson’s involvement.
Author of “The Witch of New York” discusses a mid-1800s salacious murder trial that was the birth of tabloid justice.
Author of “The Snatch Racket” discusses the 1930s kidnapping epidemic that terrorized America and the role of the FBI to solve the crimes.
Retired Michigan judge discusses his studies that he says prove that the “CSI effect” is a myth.
Renowned professors of legal ethics discuss their podcast that grew out of breakfast discussions on the subject.
NFL’s top executive responsible for the draft and Super Bowl discusses what makes the draft so unique.
The Olympic gold medalist in the marathon at the 1972 Munich games recounts being awakened by pre-dawn gun fire in the Olympic village as members of the Israeli Olympic team were taken hostage by a faction of the PLO and killed.
Harvard Law School's only deaf and blind graduate discusses her incredible achievement and how she’s using her Harvard Law sheepskin. And she gave me the secret to how she knew that answer.
The 97-year-old judge, serving on the Eastern District of New York for nearly 52 years, discusses what makes him tick.
White House counsel to Presidents Ronald Reagan and George W. Bush, and deputy counsel to John Dean, Nixon's White House counsel during Watergate, discusses his career as the man called the quintessential Washington insider-lawyer.
The former Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security, mob prosecutor and Third Circuit judge discuss his new book, which looks at data, privacy and cyber issues from a very unique perspective.
The lawyer who successfully defended Michael Jackson against sexual molestation charges discusses his remarkable career, which he attributes to being an unconventional lawyer and what he doesn't see when he looks at the man in the mirror.
The Toronto lawyer discusses talking his outlandish idea for a musical surrounding the September 11th terrorist attacks and turning it into the smash hit Broadway musical “Come From Away.”
The former three-term Republican governor of New York discusses his long career in politics and as a lawyer – but he is defined by neither.
The former anchor of ABC’s World News Tonight, nearly killed by an explosion while covering the war in Iraq, discusses his legal career before walking away to pursue a journalism career.
The former Secretary of Homeland Security discusses his diverse career in private practice and public service.
The guitarist for Blind Melon, whose first album went quadruple-platinum and was nominated for two Grammys, discusses his long, strange trip from the cover of Rolling Stone magazine to Penn Law School.
Major League Baseball’s official historian shares his views on changes to the game and the 150th anniversary of MLB’s first game.
The Duke basketball player turned lawyer turned ESPN college basketball analyst discusses his book “Toughness” and going one-on-one with the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals.
The once richest practicing lawyer in America shows that there’s more than one definition of the word “rich.” It can also mean deep in color. And there may be no lawyer – ever – that has more color than Joe Jamail.
Sitting across from the most famous divorce lawyer in America – as memorable for what you see as well as hear.
The legendary civil procedure professor and Good Morning America legal analyst discusses his long career and astounding prescience in the area of privacy law.
The former U.S. Attorney General shows that diversity also means variety in one's career.
The former mob-lawyer turned mayor of Las Vegas discusses a life well-lived and martinis with the mayor.
The best-selling novelist discusses his new take on an old life insurance story.
The daughter of civil rights icon Fred Korematsu discusses her father’s famous case and legacy.
For the lawyer for the Lovings in Loving v. Virgina, the case is just a spoonful of his remarkable career.