May 24, 2022
Meet Susan Francis, the Executive
Director of the Maryland Volunteer Lawyers Service (MVLS), a
non-profit organization that provides legal help for low-income
residents of Maryland in various types of civil matters, including
family law, housing issues, tax disputes, estate planning, and
criminal record...
May 10, 2022
In this episode, our guest is
Bridget Bailey Lipscomb, Assistant Director of the Environmental
Torts Section at the U.S. Department of Justice, and President of
the Women’s Bar Association of the District of Columbia. Listen in
as Bridget describes her path, from growing up on the South Side of
Chicago to working in...
Mar 29, 2022
Listen in as Jon chats with
Christopher Deubert about life as a sports lawyer. Chris worked for
the Football Players Health Study at Harvard University, before
becoming the General Counsel for the D.C. United professional
soccer team. Now in private practice, Chris represents players,
clubs, and other participants in...
Mar 8, 2022
This go-round, we chat with Corinne
Blalock, who is the Executive Director of the Law and Political
Economy Project. Law and political economy (LPE) is an
intellectual movement within legal academia, and the LPE Project is
an organization, housed at Yale Law School, that brings together
the scholars working in the...
Feb 22, 2022
In this episode, Anne Champion
walks us through legal protections for the press and publishers,
including Anti-SLAPP statutes, and the “actual malice” standard
adopted by the Supreme Court in the famous First Amendment case
of New York Times v.
Sullivan. Along
the way, we hear about Anne’s representation of Mary...