Today, my guest is Dr. Richard Susskind, an author, speaker and thought leader in the legal profession.  He has written 4 books about the practice of law, including The Future of Law, Transforming the Law, The End of Lawyers? and most recently Tomorrow's Lawyers.  He is as good a speaker as he is a profound thinker and it was a privilege to have him join me for this interview from his home in Radlett, England.

Here is a recorded interview about my career, conducted by the exceptionally affable Richard Hsu (@hsutubeesq) http://t.co/cmz4q4ToYv

— Richard Susskind (@richardsusskind) September 26, 2014

@richardsusskind is funnier than expected. "Will we see these changes in your lifetime?" "Depends how long I live." http://t.co/G6LEk7dtpC — Susan Kostal (@skostal) September 26, 2014

Today, my guest is Dr. Philippa "Pippa" Malmgren, a politics and policy advisor, who is the author of Signals: the breakdown of the social contract and the rise of geopolitics. Raised by a father who served in four presidential administrations (Kennedy, Johnson, Nixon and Ford), Pippa learned early in her career that the only way to influence public policy is to be able to explain things in plain, everyday language. Partially inspired by Peter Lynch's famous book on choosing stocks One up on Wall Street, Pippa simplifies complicated economics, fiscal policy and crowdsourcing in a way that even someone like me can understand!

Today, with the help of my 12 year old daughter Emma, we interview Drew Shoals*, the drummer for the Grammy Award winning band, Train.  Drew had previously played with the lead singer of Train, Pat Monahan, prior to going to law school.  Despite having a successful legal career at Shearman & Sterling, when he got the call to join the band, he couldn't say no!

*with special thanks to Michael Dorf

Listen to an interview I did with @HsuUntied where I talk about my journey from music to law and back. http://t.co/jU6M8cSrQ0 #lawyerdrummer

— Drew Shoals (@drew_shoals) January 4, 2015

Today, my guest is Roberg J. Lang, an origami master who is widely recognized as one of the world’s leading masters of the art, with over 500 designs catalogued and diagrammed.  A distinguished Caltech alumi, he started his career as a laser physicist before pursuing a lifelong hobby of origami as a full time profession.  A TED speaker, he is noted for designs of great detail and realism, and has folded some of the most complex origami designs ever created.  The barrel cactus pictured here took over 8 years to fold and contains over 380 cactus spines. He is the author of over 14 books and his work has been exhibited in New York (Museum of Modern Art), Paris (Carrousel du Louvre), Salem (Peabody Essex Museum), San Diego (Mingei Museum of World Folk Art), and Kaga, Japan (Nippon Museum Of Origami), among many others.

Today, my guest is David Lat, a Yale Law School alum, former Ninth Circuit clerk, Wachtell Associate and Founder and Managing Editor of “Above the Law,” a widely read and award-winning website covering the legal profession. When I spoke with David late last year, he had just published his first novel, Supreme Ambitions, which allowed him to combine his creative writing skills with his circuit court clerking experience. Although he hasn’t committed to writing a second book, the first one ends with the perfect set up for a sequel and I am already looking forward to him returning as a guest if he finishes it!

Enjoyed chatting with Richard Hsu of @HsuUntied about legal blogging, @ATLblog, #SupremeAmbitions, & much more! http://t.co/bVgvXL7Lmq

— David Lat (@DavidLat) May 26, 2015

Today, my guest is Nathan Sawaya who is a Lego Brick Artist.  What started as a side hobby after working as a lawyer has now blossomed into a full time profession with millions of bricks.  Even though Nathan has played with lego bricks as a child - like many of us - what he finds most fascinating is to transform simple plain square lego pieces into curved life size humans and other objects. Nathan's most recent book is entitled The Art of the Brick: A Life in Lego and he is featured prominently in the upcoming feature film A Lego Brickumentary (see trailer below).

A Lego Brickumentary (2015) Official Trailer:

Today, my guest is Stanford Law School Professor Mark Lemley  (who is also a Partner at Durie Tangri and Founder of Lex Machina (aquired by Lexis Nexis)) who talks about playing video games.  As a full-time professor, law firm partner and a founder of a startup, one would think Mark wouldn't have time for something like video games.  But his hobby is a throwback to his childhood days of playing Dungeons & Dragons and an activity that allows him to completely forget about work -- something we all need!

.@HsuUntied talks w/law prof, law firm partner & @LexMachina founder @Marklemley on his hobby outside the classroom http://t.co/KJ8UeowFg8

— StanfordLaw (@StanfordLaw) June 9, 2015

Today, my guest is Yul Kwon*, Head of Privacy Program at Facebook.  Yul is most well known for being the winner of the CBS TV show Survivor but he has a number of incredible achievements: degrees from Stanford, Yale Law School, legislative assistant to Senator Lieberman, Second Circuit Law Clerk, McKinsey, Google, FCC, FBI, CNN -- and all before the age of 40.  What's even more incredible is that Yul self-classifies himself as an introvert -- perhaps even a bit of a geek -- and yet he was able to exploit that trait to help him win a competitive TV reality game show!

* with special thanks to David Hornik

Today, my guest is Rodney Gilmore, a college football analyst for ESPN and practicing lawyer at the law firm of Doty Barlow Britt & Thieman LLP.  He is a graduate of Stanford University, where he played football for three years under legendary Coach Bill Walsh, and received his JD from the University of California, Berkeley. While at Stanford, he was involved in The Play (see video below), a legendary last-second kickoff return by the University of California ("Cal") Golden Bears to defeat Stanford in The Big Game on November 20, 1982.

Today, my guest is Steve Susman, a former Supreme Court Clerk (to Hugo Black) and Founding Partner of Susman Godfrey.  At the age of 68, Steve challenged himself to make his first long distance bike ride by entering into MS150, the largest bike ride supporting multiple sclerosis in the country.  Hiring a personal trainer and training in Central Park in the dead of winter, Steve not only successfully completed the race, he later became the largest fundraiser and got to wear "#1" on his bike and jersey.  I made a date with Steve that if he was still riding at the age of 80, he would come back and tell me about it!