In today's episode, you'll hear from Bill Brandt, founder of DSI Civic, a financial restructuring firm. Brandt, who for 35 years has helped handle workouts, turnarounds and restructurings for nearly 40 law firms, talks about the comparisons and contrasts between the Great Recession and the current situation for law firms. You'll also hear from Keith Wetmore, who was chairman at Morrison & Foerster from 2000 to 2012 and guided his firm through some rocky years. Wetmore is now managing director at Major, Lindsey & Africa, a legal recruiting firm. 

In this episode, we explore law student activism and how future attorneys attending law schools at Harvard, Yale, New York University and elsewhere are using their leverage to protest some of Big Law's policies and practices. We also dive into the major takeaways from the 2020 Go-To Law Schools report, Law.com's annual ranking of the law schools that major firms hire from the most to fill their first-year associate positions. 

The coronavirus has upended legal operations at law firms, in-house departments and law schools in the U.S. and abroad. In this episode, you’ll hear from Law.com journaiists who are closely covering how the legal industry is coping with the spread of COVID-19.

Eilene Zimmerman, a journalist and the ex-wife of a Wilson Sonsini partner who died of a drug overdose about five years ago, talks to Gina Passarella, editor-in-chief of Law.com affiliate The American Lawyer, about what Zimmerman uncovered regarding the culture inside Big Law and law schools in researching her new book "Smacked: A Story of White-Collar Ambition, Addiction and Tragedy."

Is being a lawyer hard? What happens if a bad client wants to hire you? Why do lawyers keep secrets? On this week's podcast, we put law firm partners to the test of answering questions from the toughest examiners we could find—kids! On the hot seat are Cody Harris of Keker, Van Nest & Peters; Elisa D’Amico of K&L Gates; and Eli Richlin of Wilson, Sonsini, Goodrich & Rosati.

This week's episode is the first in a series from The Careerist Vivia Chen focused on the shortage of African American lawyers, especially in Big Law, where only about 2 percent of partners are black. She talks with Frederick Nance, global managing partner of Squire Patton Boggs. With 42 years of experience practicing law, Nance provides a historical perspective about what’s changed and what hasn’t for black attorneys, particularly at major law firms. 

The Legal Speak team pulled aside several speakers at Legalweek 2020 to ask what tech tools make their lives easier, what technologies are over-hyped, and what they’re doing to transform the organizations they work for. You’ll hear from Daryl Shetterly, director of Orrick Analytics; Kirupa Pushparaj, head of IP and Legal Operations at Square; Karen Hourigan, a San Francisco partner at Morgan, Lewis & Bockius; and Sam Castor, executive vice president of policy for Switch.

This week, we’re globe-trotting, as we look at the key international issues affecting the business of law. In conjunction with the launch of our new website, Law.com International, Lisa Shuchman, senior editor of the site, takes us around the world to explain what the implications of political unrest in Hong Kong, the Coronavirus, Brexit, the growth of class actions in Australia, and much more mean for Big Law and beyond.

Kevin Rosenberg, a 2004 graduate of the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law, who recently convinced the New York's chief bankruptcy judge in the Southern District to discharge more than $200,000 he was carrying in student loan debt, talks with Law.com reporter Karen Sloan about the decision that's making waves in the bankruptcy world. Sloan also talks with Jason Iuliano, a professor at Villanova University Charles Widger School of Law who has spent 10 years studying student loan debt. He explains what Rosenberg’s case could mean for other student loan debtors.