ALAB Series

By All Lawyers Are Bad

What's ALAB Series about?

An infrequent podcast series about the American legal system, brought to you by Andy, Michael, Tarik, Tim and Charles. ALAB aims to tell engaging stories about lawyers, legal cases, legal issues, or the legal profession more generally, with a focus on the outrageous, excessive, and/or absurd.

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ALAB Series episodes:

10.24.2022
The Alex Jones Miniseries 1: A Great, Dark Wickedness
In the first installment of the Alex Jones Miniseries, Andy, Charles, and Tarik explore how Alex became Alex, and how the nation became a little Alex too. All Music by David Shaw https://twitter.com/gloomfather https://orlandogloom.bandcamp.com/album/circular-season For more information, join our friends over at Knowledge...
09.22.2022
Episode 28: Something Given Has No Value
In perhaps the cruelest of his many attention-seeking stunts, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis defies the will of Florida's citizens, who voted overwhelmingly to restore voting rights to their neighbors with prior felony convictions. Andy, Charles, Tim, and Tarik explore the...
09.02.2022
Episode 27: COACH!
Finally released from their months-long imprisonment for contempt of court, Andy and Tarik face down their most dangerous foe yet: Edward "Coach" Weinhaus.
10.30.2021
Episode 26: That Colossal Wreck
Andy, Charles, Tarik, and Tim explore the hilarious meltdown of the Ozy Media empire, and discover a cautionary tale about corporate governance.
10.01.2021
Episode 25: Release the Crackpots
Michael, Tim, Tarik, and newest ALAB-er Charles discuss the expansive sanctions order issued by a Michigan court against the intellectual architects of the so-called "Kraken" lawsuits that sought to invalidate the official results of the 2020 US Presidential election.
08.05.2021
Episode 24: The Scapegoat (Part Two)
In the second and final part of their review of the U.S. government's unprecedented persecution of the Holy Land Foundation, Andy, Tarik and Tim -- again joined by podcast friend Rhiannon of fivefourpod.com -- analyze the two criminal trials that...
07.07.2021
Episode 23: The Scapegoat (Part One)
Just days after the 9/11 attacks, a scrambling Bush administration -- using tools gifted it by the Clinton administration's triangulated response to the Oklahoma City bombing -- needed to seem tough on terror. It set its sights on the Holy...
05.04.2021
Episode 22: ALAB at the Movies - Michael Clayton
Andy, Michael, Tarik, and Tim reflect on the 2007 Oscar-nominated film Michael Clayton. While the movie has been hailed as a masterwork of the legal thriller genre, how true to life is its portrait of the evil corporate lawyer?
03.08.2021
Episode 21: The Racism's Baked Right In
Andy, Michael, Tim, and Tarik discuss "race norming" and related statistical shenanigans being used in courts today -- most famously in the NFL's concussion class action settlement -- to disadvantage women and people of color, a facially indefensible practice that...
01.24.2021
Episode 20: Let's Lawyer Our Way Out
In a companion piece to their episode on the plot to assassinate the governor of Michigan, Andy, Tarik, and Tim arrive three weeks late with their ill-informed, and in places ill-considered, takes on the January 6, 2021 Capitol riot and...
11.28.2020
Episode 19: Gerontocracy
Andy, Tarik, and Tim are joined by guest Leo to discuss the crisis of aging, Alzheimer's, and dementia on the state and federal bench, an issue looming larger at all levels of government, and for which the judiciary is entirely...
11.09.2020
Episode 18: These Things I See and More
With the death of Ruth Bader Ginsburg and the ascension of Amy Coney Barrett, a 6-3 right-wing majority appears locked in at the Supreme Court potentially for decades. To comfort grieving progressives, Andy, Tarik, and Tim take you on a...
10.17.2020
Episode 17: Liberate Michigan!
In their jumbo 17th episode, Andy, Tarik, and Tim review the disturbing case of the Wolverine Watchmen and their arrest for the planned kidnapping and/or arrest of Michigan governor Gretchen Whitmer. They review the details of the case and...
08.28.2020
Episode 16: The Bully (Part Two)
In the second part of their study of the greatest lawyer to ever live, Alan Dershowitz, Andy, Tarik, and Tim delve deeper into the master's central art: the smear campaign. His scorched earth tactics and relentless smear jobs spare no...
08.21.2020
Episode 15: The Bully (Part One)
In what is worst in the human soul can be found the most powerful tools of a lawyer's toolkit. Thus do Andy, Tarik, and Tim begin their studies at the feet of the Greatest Lawyer of All Time: Harvard law...
07.13.2020
Episode 14: Epstein's Bank
Andy, Michael, Tarik, and Tim teach you how to run an effective Anti-Money Laundering operation, by exploring all the myriad ways that Deutsche Bank failed to do so, breaking the rules again and again in its stunning relationship with pedophile...
07.03.2020
Episode 13: There Will Be Knots
Michael, Tarik, and Tim explore the "Omegaverse" and find, among its other natural treasures, a nefarious tale of a plundering capitalist hell-bent on using the derricks of the law and courts to extract this magical land's value, to the exclusion...
05.10.2020
Episode 12: Lawyer Brain, Pt. 4 - A Different Kind of Epstein Brain
Andy, Tarik, and Tim discuss NYU law professor Richard Epstein's one-man crusade to defeat COVID-19 using the powers of logic and debate, and the frightening things the resulting debacle says about the American legal academy.
04.11.2020
Episode 11: Under Siege 2: Dark Territory
Back in the innocent days of Episode 7, Andy, Michael, and Tarik thought that US economic sanctions policy had reached its apex of stupidity. But COVID-19, as it has with so many things, shows them that no, things can always...
03.30.2020
Episode 10: Hard R
The struggling BDS movement under legislative assault. The First Amendment increasingly used as a cynical deregulatory tool for big business. What's a legal scholar obsessed with free speech to do? That's right: drop the Hard R. Join Andy, Tarik, and Tim...
03.03.2020
Episode 9: Mike's Charnel-House for Children
Sure, presidential candidate Mike Bloomberg's apologies for his "stop and frisk" policies ring hollow on their face. But they're even worse when placed in the context of the systemic brutality of New York's street-to-Rikers Island pipeline. Andy, Tarik, and Tim...
02.06.2020
Episode 8: Lawyer Brain, Pt. 3 - The Counterclerk
Andy, Michael, and Tarik marvel at the spectacular rise, dizzying fall, and curious redemption of Ian Samuel, a legal yarn humming with powerful energies.
01.20.2020
Episode 7: The Modern-Day Siege
Andy, Michael, and Tarik look at United States economic sanctions laws, and in particular the decades-long embargoes imposed on Cuba and Iran.
11.23.2019
Episode 6: Lawyer Brain, Pt. 2 - The Sandpit of the Soul
Andy, Michael, and Tarik look at the Office of Legal Counsel, the elite unit within the US Department of Justice where the most elite legal minds in the country go to exchange their very souls for the promise of a...
10.28.2019
Episode 5: Weeb Wars, Pt. 2
Weeb Wars concludes with a massive double episode - Tarik, forced to flee his home after being doxed by Law Twitter, joins Andy and Michael remote from an undisclosed location to finish their review of Vic Mignona's dismissed grudge lawsuit...
10.07.2019
Episode 4: Weeb Wars, Pt. 1
Andy, Michael, and Tarik play on the astroturf that is one of the more ill-considered lawsuits any ostensible lawyer has ever pushed a "client" to file: Vic Mignona's doomed lawsuit against the #metoo movement. (Part 1 of 2)
09.09.2019
Episode 3: Faketoshi - The Perfect Client
The perfect crime. The perfect criminal. The Perfect Client. Join us as Dr. Craig "Faketoshi" Wright's overweening self regard and cavalier disregard for truth careens headlong into a brick wall and he learns a costly lesson: that he is decidedly...
08.30.2019
Episode 2: Lawyer Brain, Pt. 1 - Be Like Brett
Do you want to go to law school? Do you have a terminal case of Lawyer Brain? Andy, Michael, and Tarik describe the most optimal route to catching this debilitating affliction.
08.16.2019
Episode 1: Old Dirty Bastards
Tarik, Andy and Michael discuss Giuffre vs. Maxwell, the defamation case at the eye of the Jeffrey Epstein media storm.

What's ALAB Series about?

Download our free app to listen on your phone

ALAB Series episodes:

The Alex Jones Miniseries 1: A Great, Dark Wickedness

Episode 28: Something Given Has No Value

Episode 27: COACH!

Episode 26: That Colossal Wreck

Episode 25: Release the Crackpots

Episode 24: The Scapegoat (Part Two)

Episode 23: The Scapegoat (Part One)

Episode 22: ALAB at the Movies - Michael Clayton

Episode 21: The Racism's Baked Right In

Episode 20: Let's Lawyer Our Way Out

Episode 19: Gerontocracy

Episode 18: These Things I See and More

Episode 17: Liberate Michigan!

Episode 16: The Bully (Part Two)

Episode 15: The Bully (Part One)

Episode 14: Epstein's Bank

Episode 13: There Will Be Knots

Episode 12: Lawyer Brain, Pt. 4 - A Different Kind of Epstein Brain

Episode 11: Under Siege 2: Dark Territory

Episode 10: Hard R

Episode 9: Mike's Charnel-House for Children

Episode 8: Lawyer Brain, Pt. 3 - The Counterclerk

Episode 7: The Modern-Day Siege

Episode 6: Lawyer Brain, Pt. 2 - The Sandpit of the Soul

Episode 5: Weeb Wars, Pt. 2

Episode 4: Weeb Wars, Pt. 1

Episode 3: Faketoshi - The Perfect Client

Episode 2: Lawyer Brain, Pt. 1 - Be Like Brett

Episode 1: Old Dirty Bastards