How a Chinese-American family challenged school segregation in 1920s Mississippi (podcast)

Almost 30 years before Linda Brown and her parents took on the Topeka Board of Education in Brown v. Board of Education, Martha Lum’s parents Jeu Gong and Katherine sued to try to stop Rosedale, Mississippi, from barring their Chinese-American children from the local “white” school. Their case, Gong Lum…

May 17, 2017 8:41 AM CDT

Lisa Solomon found the time was right for her career in online legal research (podcast)

Plenty of lawyers hate to do legal research: It can be tedious and time-consuming, and one mistake can tank an entire case. For lawyers of a certain generation, the very sight of those two-toned, musty-smelling books that all look the same is enough to fill them with dread. For younger…

May 10, 2017 8:16 AM CDT

Should bystanders have a legal duty to intervene? Holocaust scholar weighs in (podcast)

If you are a bystander and witness a crime, should intervention be a legal obligation? Or is moral responsibility enough?

May 3, 2017 8:30 AM CDT

Are schools that fail to teach children to read violating their rights? (podcast w/transcript)

The 14th Amendment has been used to secure civil rights for a multitude of groups. But does it give children a constitutional right to literacy? Is it the government's responsibility to adequately fund schools, so students learn what they need to reach appropriate reading levels?

Apr 24, 2017 8:30 AM CDT

Is it time to rethink solitary confinement? (podcast)

In the 1960s and 1970s, a series of deadly prison riots convinced corrections officials that long-term solitary confinement was the only solution to control the “worst of the worst.” Supermax prisons, such as the Pelican Bay State Prison in California, were constructed to fulfill this perceived need. But with the…

Apr 19, 2017 8:30 AM CDT

Justia’s Stacy Stern finds real profit in making things free (podcast)

Stacy Stern is in charge of revenues, among her other roles, at a successful for-profit company. But she tends to talk more about giving away products and services. It becomes obvious that she thinks giving is more important than receiving—not that Justia, the legal portal that she and her husband,…

Apr 12, 2017 8:30 AM CDT

What have previous Legal Rebels been up to? We talked to 8 of them to find out

We love featuring innovators in our annual Legal Rebels issues, but these creative legal minds don’t stop churning after they earn their titles. ABA Journal editor and publisher Molly McDonough sat down with eight of our Legal Rebels and Legal Rebels Trailblazer alums at the ABA Techshow in March to…

Apr 6, 2017 2:45 PM CDT

In novel ‘Al-Tounsi,’ author looks at US Supreme Court through a human lens (podcast)

In his debut novel Al-Tounsi, critically acclaimed Canadian-American author and playwright Anton Piatigorsky tells the behind-the-scenes story of U.S. Supreme Court justices as they consider a landmark case involving the rights of detainees held in a Guantanamo Bay-like overseas military base. It explores how the personal lives, career rivalries, and political sympathies of these legal titans blend with their philosophies to create the most important legal decisions of our time.

Apr 5, 2017 8:30 AM CDT

Getting ahead while working from home (podcast with transcript)

A handful of large law firms recently announced limited telecommuting plans for associates, which is a somewhat radical change for the profession. Does this mean that for lawyers, office face-time may no longer be central to demonstrating you’re a valuable team member?

In this month's episode of Asked and Answered, Stephanie Francis Ward speaks with Sara Sutton Fell about lawyers working remotely. Sutton Fell is the CEO and founder of Remote.co, which helps companies hire, train and manage employees who work offsite, and FlexJobs, a career website focused on telecommuting, freelance work and part-time jobs.

Mar 27, 2017 8:45 AM CDT

What can neuroscience tell us about crime? (podcast)

Mar 15, 2017 8:30 AM CDT

CodeX co-founder caught the entrepreneurial bug at Stanford (podcast)

Born and raised in Austria, Roland Vogl fell in love with California almost from the moment he arrived in 1999 as a student at Stanford Law School. In particular, he was drawn to the entrepreneurial ethos of Stanford's home base of Silicon Valley.

"The idea of being in Silicon Valley and being immersed in the gung-ho spirit where people solve problems—not so much by policy and lawmaking but by building new systems—really appealed to me," says Vogl, a 2017 Legal Rebels Trailblazer.

Mar 8, 2017 8:30 AM CST

How to host a networking event that actually brings in business (podcast with transcript)

You want to expand your book of business with networking events, and think that planning one yourself might be the most rewarding. How can you develop one that lawyers will actually attend; doesn’t go way over budget; and brings you great new connections?

Feb 27, 2017 8:00 AM CST

Lawyerist founder Sam Glover reports anecdata from the legal community (podcast)

The website Lawyerist focuses on getting attorneys information they want. Determining what that is isn't hard, says founder Sam Glover, because readers frequently tell him through the site's discussion forum or on social media.

Feb 8, 2017 8:30 AM CST

Paul Goldstein skewers law school politics in new satirical novel ‘Legal Asylum’ (podcast)

Feb 1, 2017 8:55 AM CST

How can lawyers fight implicit bias? (podcast with transcript)

Many of us don’t think of ourselves as biased, and we don’t want to be prejudiced towards others. But we’re also reluctant to acknowledge the ways bias can creep in, according to academics who study implicit bias.

Jan 23, 2017 8:30 AM CST