Miranda Warnings

Toobin discusses some of the decisions made by key players involved with the Russia investigation including; James Comey, Robert Mueller, Bill Barr, and Rudy Giuliani, one of whom, in Toobin's view, committed one of the greatest failures of lawyering in American history.

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Miranda Warnings is hosted by NYSBA' 118th President David Miranda.

Loretta Lynch served as the 83rd Attorney General of the United States from 2015-2017 under President Barack Obama and she joins David for a wide-ranging conversation. 

She discusses her history prosecuting police brutality cases in New York, the Trump administration's decision to stop Obama era policies regarding community policing, and how it was a missed opportunity to continue the reform process.

Lynch, who is now a litigation partner at Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison in New York City, also discusses what it was like to work for President Obama, his leadership style and the support he provided to members of the cabinet. 

She also shares her views on the problems partisanship can cause for career prosecutors in the Department of Justice and recalls her role in the email scandal of former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.

Miranda Warnings is hosted by NYSBA's 118th President David Miranda.

Dr. Don Levy is the director of the Siena College Research Institute and he joins the show to talk about some of the recent Presidential polls and what the data is saying about Joe Biden's chances to win the election. 

Plus he shares some tips that people can use to identify the differences between a 'good poll' and a 'bad poll,' and he discusses some of the recent polls he's conducted on Governor Andrew Cuomo's COVID-19 pandemic response, the opioid epidemic, race relations.

Miranda Warnings is hosted by NYSBA's 118th President David Miranda.

Mimi Rocah spent 17 years as an Assistant US Attorney in the Southern District of New York. 

She joins the show to talk about her experience working under Republican and Democratic administrations. She also discusses her view of Attorney General Bill Barr's continued overreach in cases against associates of President Donald Trump and his continued lies about how former US Attorney Geoffrey Berman was fired this past June.

Rocah, who is also the Democratic candidate for District Attorney in Westchester County, talks about her experience having to wait nearly three weeks for her primary victory to become official due to the large number of mail-in ballots and scaled back in-person voting due to COVID-19 and what that could mean for Election Day in November.

Miranda Warnings is hosted by NYSBA's 118th President David Miranda.

Ben Meiselas, partner at the Los Angeles law firm Geragos & Geragos, joins the show to talk about the Houston Astros cheating scandal and the lawsuit his client, Mike Bolsinger, has filed against the team for allegedly ruining his career. 

Meiselas who heads the civil litigation department at Geragos & Geragos details what the alleged wrongdoing by the team, how the team deployed technology so their players knew what pitches were going to be thrown, and how Bolsinger's career trajectory was derailed because of an outing in August 2017.

Scott Malouf, a social media lawyer and co-chair of the NYSBA Social Media committee joins the show to talk about censorship on social media, the recent executive order signed by President Trump that seeks to prevent online censorship and the recent changes to the ethics laws surrounding attorney advertising and its impact on the legal community.

Leonard Zeskind, author of Blood and Politics: The History of the White Nationalist Movement from the Margins to the Mainstream and founder and president of the Institute for Research & Education of Human Rights is today’s guest.

He talks to David about the growth of the White Nationalist movement and why its seen enormous growth since 2016. He also talks about the differences between white nationalism and white supremacists and how these groups are using the internet to mobilize and coordinate to hold rallies.

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Miranda Warnings is hosted by NYSBA’s 118th President, David Miranda.

Marian C. Rice (L’Abbate Balkan) & David Schraver (Nixon Peabody) join the show to talk about the NYSBA Working Group to Reopen Law Firms and the model reopening plan the working group released last week to help law firms get back to work as quickly as possible, while protecting employees and clients. 

They discuss the 9 key guidelines in the plan, what steps firms should take to ensure they’re ready to resume operations and how important a healthy employee/employer relationship will be during this time.

Miranda Warnings is hosted by NYSBA’s 118th President David Miranda.

This week’s guest is New York’s Secretary of State Rossana Rosado, who joins the show to talk about the 2020 Census; why its so important it is for New Yorkers to fill it out and how plans for door-to-door census takers have changed due to the COVID-19. Secretary Rosado also dispels some common misnomers about the Census and gives tips on how New Yorkers can identify scam attempts.

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