Lawyer2Lawyer: The Am Law 100

Our topic this week on the legal-affairs podcast Lawyer2Lawyer is the Am Law 100, which reports that total revenues for the nation's highest-grossing law firms reached $64.5 billion. We discuss the survey and what it reveals about the state of the legal profession with Aric Press, editor-in-chief of The American Lawyer magazine, and Bruce MacEwen, consultant to law firms on strategic and economic issues and author of the blog Adam Smith, Esq. Here are the show links:

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Lawyer2Lawyer: Case Law in the Public Domain

Legal publishing is a $5 billion industry. Now, the portion of that industry that focuses on publishing and selling court opinions is facing a threat from movements on several fronts to put all federal and state case law in the public domain (a topic I've written about here on several occasions). We look at what is being done to "free" case law in this week's episode of the legal-affairs podcast Lawyer2Lawyer. Joining my cohost J. Craig Williams and me as guests are:

• Thomas F. Bruce, director of the Legal Information Institute at Cornell University Law School.
• Carl Malamud, founder of Public.Resource.org.
• Andy Martens, senior VP of new product development at Thomson West.

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Lawyer2Lawyer: Polygamy and the Law

The raid of a polygamist compound in West Texas has raised difficult and troubling issues concerning the interplay between the state, religion and the rights of children, women and families. This week on the legal-affairs podcast Lawyer2Lawyer, I discuss the events in Texas with two guests: Betsy Branch, a family-law attorney with the Dallas firm of McCurley, Orsinger, McCurley, Nelson & Downing, who serves as attorney ad litem for several children in the West Texas case, and lawyer and social critic Wendy Kaminer, who has written about the civil liberties aspects of the case at the blogthefreeforall.net.

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Lawyer2Lawyer: The Case for the Shield Law

On our legal affairs podcast Lawyer2Lawyer this week, we discuss the federal shield bill pending in Congress. I have complete details about the show at my Media Law blog.

Lawyer2Lawyer: Law Firms Go Green

With global warming and environmental issues plaguing the world, the legal community is doing its part by going green. This week on the legal affairs podcast Lawyer2Lawyer, we discuss initiatives to promote greater environmental responsibility within the legal profession. taking charge and partaking in individual tasks within their firms to save the environment. Joining me to discuss this issue are:

• Attorney Carolyn S. Kaplan, chief sustainability officer at the law firm Nixon Peabody, the first person to hold such a position at a major law firm.
• Daniel Eisenberg, a lawyer at Beveridge & Diamond who was a principal architect of the ABA-EPA Law Office Climate Challenge.
  

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Lawyer2Lawyer: Spitzer and the Law

Lawyers considered Eliot Spitzer either a hero or a villain. But as the now-former governor of New York faces possible criminal charges, we explore the case against him on this week's edition of the legal-affairs podcast LegalTalkNetwork. Joining my cohost J. Craig Williams and me to discuss the legal case against Spitzer are: Harvey Silverglate, nationally known criminal defense and civil liberties lawyer, writer and blogger; Dan Slater, lead writer for The Wall Street Journal's Law Blog; and David Frank, former criminal prosecutor and now a reporter at Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly.

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Lawyer2Lawyer: Paralegals and Law Practice

The essential role of paralegals in law practice is our topic this week on the legal-affairs podcast Lawyer2Lawyer. Joining us as guests to discuss this topic are Tita A. Brewster, president of the National Association of Legal Assistants, and Chere Estrin, CEO of Estrin LegalEd and author of the blog, The Estrin Report.

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Lawyer2Lawyer: 'Me Too' Evidence in Bias Cases

This week on the legal-affairs podcast Lawyer2Lawyer, we discuss the recent Supreme Court decision Sprint/United Management Co. v. Mendelsohn, involving the admissibility of "me too" evidence in employment discrimination cases. Our guests are three employment lawyers: Michael Ketchmark, from Davis Ketchmark & McCreight in Kansas City, Mo.; Jeannie DeVeney from the Overland Park, Kan., office of Spencer Fane Britt & Browne LLP; and George Lenard, partner with Harris, Dowell, Fisher & Harris in St. Louis, Mo., and author of George's Employment Blawg.

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Lawyer2Lawyer: Competence and the Immigration Bar

A recent decision of the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals opened with these words: "With disturbing frequency, this Court encounters evidence of ineffective representation by attorneys retained by immigrants seeking legal status in this country." This week on the legal-affairs podcast Lawyer2Lawyer, my cohost J. Craig Williams and I explore the competence of legal representation provided to immigrants. Joining us as guests to discuss this issue are three experts in immigration law:

• Lisa D. Ramirez, an immigration lawyer in Santa Ana, Calif.
• Nora Privitera, special projects attorney for The Immigrant Legal Resource Center in San Francisco.
• Eleanor Newhoff, immigration lawyer in Cambridge, Mass., and part-time attorney for Greater Boston Legal Services.
  

We discuss the quality of legal representation provided to immigrants, why so many immigrants receive inadequate legal assistance and what lawyers are doing to educate clients and the bar.

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Lawyer2Lawyer: The Lawyer Candidates

With the Democratic race for president down to two lawyers, how well did the legal careers of Senators Barack Obama and Hillary Rodham Clinton prepare them to become our nation's chief executive. That is the topic this week on the legal-affairs podcast Lawyer2Lawyer, as my cohost J. Craig Williams and I are joined by:

• Professor Paul Finkelman, the President William McKinley distinguished professor of law and public policy at Albany Law School and author -- among his many publications -- of the chapter, "Abraham Lincoln: Prairie Lawyer," in the book, America's Lawyer Presidents: From Law Office to the Oval Office.
• Robert J. Spitzer, distinguished service professor of political science at SUNY Cortland and author of several books about the presidency, as well as the forthcoming book, Saving the Constitution from Lawyers.
  

We discuss how well legal experience prepares a candidate to become president and look at the specific careers of Obama and Clinton.

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Lawyer2Lawyer: Fun, Sun and CLE

CLE providers are linking continuing education with exotic locales, from Paris to Florence to Machu Picchu. This week on the legal-affairs podcast Lawyer2Lawyer, we discuss the pros and cons of CLE travel programs. Joining us are Costa Mesa, Calif., lawyer Jamie Duarte, who has been organizing CLE programs in exotic locations such as Machu Picchu for more than 20 years, and Maryann McCool, lawyer and director of CLE Abroad, which has study courses in France, Italy, Spain and other European locations.

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Lawyer2Lawyer: Virtual Law Firms

Almost since the earliest days of the Internet, lawyers have been experimenting with virtual firms to increase efficiency and lower costs. More recently, virtual firms have taken on greater levels of sophistication and complexity. This week on the legal-affairs podcast Lawyer2Lawyer, we discuss this phenomenon with the principals of two virtual firms and a business-development consultant. Joining my cohost J. Craig Williams and me are: Larry Bodine, business development consultant and author of the Law Marketing Blog; Wyatt Durrette, founding member of the virtual IP firm XDL Group; and Mark Harris, CEO of Axiom Legal.

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Lawyer2Lawyer: Social Networking and the Law

This week on our legal-affairs podcast Lawyer2Lawyer, my co-host J. Craig Williams and I look at the topic, Social Networking and the Law. We have an insightful conversation with three guests who have very different perspectives on the topic: Chris Carfi, co-founder of business-networking company Cerado; Eric Goldman, director of the High Tech Law Institute at Santa Clara University School of Law; and Kara Swisher, co-executive editor of All Things Digital. Listen to or download the program at this page.

L2L: New Books from Elefant, Dershowitz

This week on the legal-affairs podcast Lawyer2Lawyer, we feature interviews with two lawyers who each have new books out: Washington, D.C., lawyer Carolyn Elefant and Harvard Law School Professor Alan Dershowitz.

Elefant, author of the blog MyShingle.com, is releasing her new book this month, Solo by Choice: How to Be the Lawyer You Always Wanted to Be. It is, she says, a book "dedicated to every lawyer who ever wanted to run the show but worried that going solo was career suicide."

In the second half of the program, we talk to Professor Dershowitz about his new book, Finding Jefferson: A Lost Letter, a Remarkable Discovery, and the First Amendment in an Age of Terrorism, in which his chance discovery in an antiquarian bookstore leads him to a meditation on Jefferson's views and his own on free speech in a time of terrorism.

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Lawyer2Lawyer Named Best Legal Podcast

I am honored to report that Lawyer2Lawyer, the weekly legal-affairs podcast I cohost with J. Craig Williams, is the winner for the second year in a row of Dennis Kennedy's Best of Law-related Blogging Award for Best Legal Podcast. Dennis writes:

"This regular weekly podcast of interviews and panel discussions has a new name for 2007, but is once again the clear choice as best legal podcast. The ability to produce a consistent weekly show with great topics and guests helps this podcast move to the top of the list. I'm consistently impressed by the way Bob Ambrogi and Craig Williams put together shows on the leading stories of the day. If you want to learn about how to do a good legal podcast, you can go to school on this one. And it's fun to be a guest on this podcast."

Kennedy's honorable mention in this category goes to Denise Howell's always superb This Week in Law.

The award is all the more special in that it comes from someone who hosts his own well-done podcast, The Kennedy-Mighell Report, together with Tom Mighell. Congratulations to Craig Williams and our producers and show hosts at the Legal Talk Network. Congratulations, as well, to the other Blawggies winners.

Lawyer2Lawyer: The Tavares Case

A Massachusetts' judge's release of Daniel Tavares become part of the national political debate after Tavares allegedly shot and killed a newlywed couple in Washington state and Republican presidential hopeful and former Bay State Gov. Mitt Romney called on the judge -- his own appointee -- to resign. On the legal-affairs podcast Lawyer2Lawyer this week, we dissect the debate with two guests: lawyer and radio host Dan Rea, host of WBZ Radio's NightSide with Dan Rea, and David Frank, attorney and reporter with Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly. Listen to or download the show from this page.

Lawyer2Lawyer: Vioxx Lawyers Discuss Settlement

On Nov. 9, Merck & Co., after long insisting it would never settle the 27,000 Vioxx cases filed against it, turned an about face and agreed to a global settlement in which it will pay $4.85 billion to resolve the bulk of these cases. Two of the lawyers who were instrumental in bringing this about join us to discuss the settlement on the latest episode of the legal-affairs podcast Lawyer2Lawyer. My cohost J. Craig Williams and I discuss the terms of the settlement and its implications with:

• Thomas V. Girardi of Girardi & Keese, one of the six attorneys who made up the plaintiffs' negotiating committee.
• Leigh O'Dell, a member of the Vioxx litigation team at the law firm Beasley Allen, whose partner Andy D. Birchfield Jr. was also a member of the plaintiffs' negotiating team.
  

We invited representatives of Merck and also of the Defense Research Institute to appear on the program, but they declined.

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Lawyer2Lawyer: The RIAA vs. File Sharers

This week on the legal affairs podcast Lawyer2Lawyer, we discuss the ongoing litigation by the Recording Industry Association of America against college students, soccer moms and others accused of illegally sharing and downloading music. Our guests for this program are two experts on the issue:

• Richard L. Gabriel, national lead counsel for the RIAA and a partner with the Colorado law firm Holme Roberts & Owen LLP.
• Fred von Lohmann, senior staff attorney specializing in intellectual property issues with the Electronic Frontier Foundation.
  

We discuss the state of these cases in the wake of the $222,000 verdict in the RIAA's case against Jammie Thomas and also consider alternatives to litigation, including the EFF's proposal for a different system of music licensing.

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Lawyer2Lawyer: Pam Smart Case Back in the News

The 1991 first-degree murder trial of New Hampshire teacher Pam Smart drew international media attention and spawned the Joyce Maynard novel and Nicole Kidman movie, To Die For. Smart was accusing of luring her 16-year-old lover, William Flynn, and two of his friends into murdering her husband Gregory. Smart was convicted and sentenced to life in prison without parole. Flynn plead guilty to second-degree murder and received a 40-year prison sentence. Now, the 33-year-old Flynn, who will be eligible for parole in 2018, is asking a New Hampshire judge to reduce his sentence and open the door to his earlier release.

On this week's legal-affairs podcast Lawyer2Lawyer, my cohost J. Craig Williams and I discuss the legal and social implications of Flynn's request. Joining us as guests to discuss the case are Marsha V. Kazarosian, the Massachusetts lawyer who defended Vance Lattime Jr., the teen who drove the getaway car on the night of the murder, and Allan H. Stokke, noted California criminal defense attorney. Download or listen to the program at this page.

SoCal Lawyers' First-Hand Accounts of Fires

In the wildfires that spread across Southern California last week, law firms and law schools were among those forced to evacuate, as the National Law Journal reported this week. Some of the lawyers who were directly affected by the fires tell their stories on the latest edition of the legal-affairs podcast Lawyer2Lawyer. My co-host J. Craig Williams and I interview Mark C. Zebrowski, managing partner of Morrison & Foerster's San Diego office, MoFo associate Katherine L. Parker, and lawyer and blogger Dan Hull of the San Diego firm Hull McGuire. In addition to hearing how the fire affected them, we discuss MoFo's Helping Handbook for the 2007 Southern California Wildfires, a 72-page legal guide for individuals and small businesses, which the firm published even as the fires were still burning.

As you listen to the podcast (which you can do here) you may want to visit William's blog and view this set of dramatic photographs of the fire shot by his Web designer.

Chemerinsky, Drake Discuss New Irvine Law School

Break out the bubbly! It is the second anniversary (give or take a month) of our weekly legal-affairs podcast Lawyer2Lawyer. We posted our first program on Aug. 31, 2005, with two special guests, then newly installed ABA President Michael S. Greco and Duke Law Professor Erwin Chemerinsky.

Chemerinsky, of course, has been in the news of late as the dean-designate of the new Donald Bren School of Law at UC Irvine, which will welcome its first class of students in fall 2009. UC Irvine Chancellor Michael V. Drake caused a controversy for his on-again, off-again hiring of Chemerinsky, but with that behind them, both are now focused on building and launching the school.

Chemerinsky and Drake join us as our guests this week for our special second-anniversary Lawyer2Lawyer. Both talk about their plans for the school and the preparations already underway. I also ask Chemerinsky for his views on Justice Clarence Thomas.

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Let me take this opportunity to thank the many people worldwide who listen to our program every week. Let me also thanks my cohost J. Craig Williams for collaborating with me on this and a huge thanks to everyone at the Legal Talk Network for the technical and professional support and guidance they've put into this.

Lawyer2Lawyer: Toy Safety, the View from China

The label "Made in China" is under a lot of scrutiny as of late. On the legal-affairs podcast Lawyer2Lawyer this week, we talk to two experts resident in China for their perspective on how governments and manufacturers can help ensure toy and product safety. Joining us as guests for this program are:

• Peter Dean, a professor of product and toy design in the School of Design at Hong Kong Polytechnic University and a former U.S. toy industry executive.
• Arthur Kroeber, managing director and head of research at Dragonomics in Beijing, who is also a regular contributor to the opinion page of the Financial Times.
  

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Lawyers2Lawyer: Human Rights Lawyers

Lawyers who devote substantial time to promoting international human rights are our focus this week on the legal-affairs podcast Lawyer2Lawyer. Joining my cohost J. Craig Williams and me to discuss their work in this field are:

• Christina M. Storm, founder and director of Lawyers Without Borders, the world's largest organization of volunteer human rights lawyers. Storm is also a partner with the Hartford, Conn., firm Byrne & Storm.

• Jerome J. Shestack, the former ABA president (1997-98)who is now of counsel to Wolf, Block, Schorr & Solis-Cohen in Philadelphia. Shestack's distinguished career includes having been U.S. ambassador to the U.N. Commission on Human Rights under President Jimmy Carter, president of the International League for Human Rights, founder of the Lawyers Committee for Human Rights (now Human Rights First) and general counsel to Amnesty International in the United States.
  

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Lawyer2Lawyer: Baseball and the Law

Steroid scandals, home-run balls, libel lawsuits -- baseball is becoming a hotbed of legal activity. This week on the legal-affairs podcast Lawyer 2 Lawyer, my cohost J. Craig Williams and I discuss the legal issues emerging in the wake of Barry Bonds' new home-run record, from what Major League Baseball should do about steroids to who rightly owns the home-run ball. Joining us are two of the world's leading experts on baseball and the law, Professor Paul Finkelman from Albany Law School in Albany, N.Y., and Professor Howard Wasserman, visiting asssociate professor at St. Louis University School of Law and associate professor at the Florida International University School of Law, who is also a contributor to Sports Law Blog.

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Lawyer2Lawyer: YouTube and Legal Marketing

This week on the legal-affairs podcast Lawyer2Lawyer, we look at YouTube as a legal marketing tool. Joining my cohost J. Craig Williams and me to discuss this are our guests:

• Neil Squillante, publisher of TechnoLawyer.
• Kevin O’Keefe, president and founder of LexBlog.
• Kelly Y. Chang, founder of the Law Offices of Kelly Chang in Hollywood, Calif., who promotes her practice in part through a YouTube video.
  

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Lawyer2Lawyer: Avvo's Founders Respond

In today's edition of the legal-affairs podcast Lawyer2Lawyer, we interview the founders of the controversial lawyer rating site Avvo, President and CEO Mark Britton and VP of Products & Marketing Paul Bloom. The two discuss their reasons for founding the site, their responses to criticisms and their future plans. They also respond to points made during our first program on Avvo, posted June 18, on which they declined to appear.

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Podcast Double Header: Supreme Court Review and Pet Food Litigation

I've been so busy lately, I've neglected to plug the most recent episodes of my own podcast. So here is two weeks' worth of Lawyer2Lawyer:

• First up: Supreme Court end of term. We look at last week's key rulings and take the end-of-term pulse of the court with help from two guests: Tony Mauro, Supreme Court correspondent for Legal Times, American Lawyer Media and Law.com, and Amy Howe, partner with Howe & Russell in Washington, D.C., and regulator contributor to and editor of SCOTUSblog.

• Next in line: Pet food litigation. We discuss the class action litigation following recent pet-food recalls. Joining us are Jay Edelson, partner at the Chicago firm Blim & Edelson LLC, the lawyer who filed one of the first class actions over contaminated pet food, and Bruce A. Wagman, partner with the firm Schiff Hardin LLP in San Francisco and chief outside litigation counsel of the Animal Legal Defense Fund.

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Lawyer2Lawyer: Browne Discusses Avvo Suit

This week on the legal affairs podcast Lawyer2Lawyer, we speak with attorney John Henry Browne, a lead plaintiff in the lawsuit against the new lawyer rating service Avvo. Also joining us to discuss the legal and professional issues surrounding Avvo are bloggers Denise Howell and Carolyn Elefant.

We invited Avvo CEO Mark Britton or any other company representative to be on the show, but they declined.

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Lawyer2Lawyer: Lawyering in China

This week on the legal-affairs podcast Lawyer2Lawyer, we discuss opportunities for U.S. lawyers in China. Our show features three U.S.-based lawyers who recently traveled to Hong Kong and mainland China on behalf of the Los Angeles County Bar Association as well as a lawyer who is a Hong Kong native and has practiced there his entire career.

Our guests are Nicholas Connon, partner with the Los Angeles firm Connon Wood Scheidemantle LLP; Malcolm S. McNeil, partner in the Los Angeles office of the Hawaii law firm Carlsmith Ball; Neville Asherson, senior partner in the Los Angeles law firm Asherson, Klein & Darbinian; and Roderick Miller, lead partner in the Hong Kong law firm Miller Peart.

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Lawyer2Lawyer: Defending Celebrities

This week on the legal-affairs podcast Lawyer2Lawyer, we talk to the lawyers who defend high-profile celebrities in criminal cases. Why is the public so fascinated with stars in legal trouble? What challenges do lawyers face in representing a high-profile client? Can celebrities ever get a fair trial?

Joining cohost J. Craig Williams and me to share their insights and experiences are Tom Mesereau, partner with the Los Angeles firm Mesereau & Yu, who has defended Michael Jackson and Robert Blake, among others, and Jennifer Keller, a Southern California criminal defense attorney who also represented Robert Blake, among other celebrities.

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Lawyer2Lawyer: Colleges and Legal Liability

In the wake of the Virginia Tech shootings, our legal-affairs podcast Lawyer2Lawyer examines the legal liability of higher-education institutions for students who are homicidal or suicidal. Joining my cohost J. Craig Williams and me for this discussion are Anthony J. Sebok, professor at Brooklyn Law School and author of a recent article exploring Virginia Tech's liability, and Robert B. Smith, partner with the Boston firm Nelson, Kinder, Mosseau & Saturley and author of a recent opinion piece in The Chronicle of Higher Education about student suicide and colleges' liability.

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Lawyer2Lawyer: Imus and the Law

It's all Imus all the time this week in the media and in the blogosphere. But what does the law have to say about all this? Did Imus commit libel? What about the First Amendment? Where's the FCC in all this? Did he have an employment contract? We get the answers to those questions and more this week on our legal-affairs podcast Lawyer2Lawyer, with two top media lawyers and a civil rights lawyer to help us out. Our guests for this program are:

• Eileen O'Connor, counsel at Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe in Washington, D.C., and a 24-year veteran broadcast journalist.
• Norman A. Pattis, criminal defense and civil rights lawyer and co-author of the blog Crime & Federalism.
• Sandra S. Baron, lawyer and executive director of the Media Law Resource Center in New York City.
  

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Lawyer2Lawyer: The Internet Bar

The world is shrinking, thanks to the Internet, and that includes the legal world. More and more, the practice of law is global. One legal organization that seeks to harness this global network of lawyers in furtherance of promoting online justice is InternetBar.org and its educational arm, the InternetBar.org Institute. This week on the legal-affairs podcast Lawyer2Lawyer, we discuss the work of InternetBar.org with three of its key members:

• Jeffrey M. Aresty, president of InternetBar.org and a Boston lawyer whose various achievements include the co-founding of ABA TechShow in 1987.
• Amelia Rea Maguire, former Florida secretary of commerce, partner in the Coral Gables, Fla., law firm of Amelia Rea Maguire P.A.
• Kenneth J. Vacovec, founding partner of the firm Vacovec, Mayotte & Singer in Newton, Mass., and former president of the Massachusetts Bar Association.
  

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Lawyer2Lawyer: Misconceptions about E-Discovery

When we spend as much time on a topic as we do these days on e-discovery, we're bound to start mixing fact and fiction. This week on the legal-affairs podcast Lawyer2Lawyer, we consider some of the more striking misconceptions lawyers have come to believe about e-discovery. To help us sort fact from fiction are two experts in the field, Stephen D. Whetstone, a former litigation attorney and now VP of client development & strategy for the e-discovery company Stratify, and Craig Ball, an attorney and internationally known e-discovery and computer forensics consultant. My cohost J. Craig Williams is away this week but will be back for next week's show.

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Lawyer2Lawyer: ABA TechShow Preview

ABA TechShow kicked off today, and on our weekly legal-affairs podcast Lawyer2Lawyer, we have a preview of the show and of what's hot in legal technology. We recorded the program yesterday with guests Dan Pinnington, director of practicePRO and chair of the 2007 TechShow planning board, and Adriana Linares, founder of LawTech Partners, author of the blog I ? Tech and a member of the TechShow planning board. Another planning board member, Tom Mighell, was scheduled to participate, but his airline decided otherwise.

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Lawyer2Lawyer: Constitutions and Counter-terrorism

On our legal-affairs podcast Lawyer2Lawyer this week, we have a fascinating show looking at international constitutional law and its relation to global counter-terrorism efforts. Joining us to discuss this are Amos N. Guiora, professor of law at Case Western Reserve University School of Law and director of the Institute for Global Security Law and Policy, and Tom Zwart, dean of international studies at Utrecht School of Law in the Netherlands.

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Lawyer2Lawyer: Here Come the Judges

Judges were once practicing lawyers, so what, if anything, changes for them once they go on the bench? And how do they view the lawyers who now appear before them? We discuss these and other questions with a panel of three judges on this week's legal-affairs podcast Lawyer2Lawyer. Our guests for this episode:

• Justice William W. Bedsworth, associate justice for the California Fourth District Court of Appeal.
• William F. Dressel, president of the National Judicial College in Reno, Nev., and former judge in Colorado's 8th Judicial District.
• Judge Steven Leben, president of the American Judges Association and a District Court judge in Johnson County, Kan.
  

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Lawyer2Lawyer: Family Law Update

With gay marriage comes gay divorce. With emerging technologies comes virtual visitation. With fractured families comes grandparent visitation. These are just some of the current issues in family law that we discuss this week on the legal-affairs podcast Lawyer2Lawyer. Joining my cohost J. Craig Williams and me to discuss the latest developments in divorce, alimony and child custody are Sherri Donovan, principal of the law firm Sherri Donovan & Associates and author of the recently published book, Hit Him Where It Hurts: The Take-No-Prisoners Guide to Divorce -- Alimony, Custody, Child Support, and More, and Daniel E. Clement, principal in the Law Offices of Daniel E. Clement and author of the blog New York Divorce Report.

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Lawyer2Lawyer: Punitives and the Supreme Court

This week on our legal-affairs podcast Lawyer2Lawyer, we discuss the implications of the Supreme Court's punitive damages decision, Philip Morris USA v. Williams for big business and big tobacco. Joining my cohost J. Craig Williams and I are Michael Gerhardt, professor of law at UNC School of Law; J. David Prince, professor of law at the William Mitchell College of Law and co-author of Products Liability Prof Blog; and Mark Gottlieb, executive director of the Public Health Advocacy Institute at Northeastern University School of Law in Boston.

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Lawyer2Lawyer: Libby Trial and Freedom of the Press

The First Amendment and freedom of the press are front and center in the trial of Scooter Libby. This week on the legal affairs podcast Lawyer2Lawyer (formerly Coast to Coast), we discuss the trial, shield laws and judicial attitutes towards free speech and a free press. My cohost J. Craig Williams and I welcome guests Ed Carter, a lawyer and assistant professor of communications at Brigham Young University who recently completed a study of Supreme Court free speech rulings, and Mark Obbie, director of the Carnegie Legal Reporting Program at the Newhouse School.

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'Coast to Coast' is now 'Lawyer2Lawyer'

Our weekly legal-affairs podcast has a new name. The podcast formerly known as Coast to Coast is now called Lawyer2Lawyer. As our producers at the Legal Talk Network explain in a programming note this week, we wanted to acknowledge our expanding and global audience of listeners beyond the coasts. Nothing else has changed. If you subscribe to the RSS feed or receive the show via iTunes, no changes are required. And my cohost J. Craig Williams and I will continue to interview lawyers from all over the world about timely topics in law.