We’re busting myths and breaking down the job search process with hiring insider Lauren McDonald, founder of Lauren McDonald Consulting. In this candid conversation, we strip away the fluff, expose outdated advice, and offer real strategies for landing your next role.

Lauren joins NYCLA Amicus Curiae host Daniel K. Wiig for a no-holds-barred discussion on ghost job posts, the LinkedIn job hunt, HR gatekeeping, resume writers—and the one attribute that trumps all others when trying to get hired.

If you’re navigating a job search, this episode is your shortcut to smarter strategies and honest insights you won’t hear anywhere else. Don’t miss it.

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Check out our latest episode of the NYCLA Amicus Curiae Podcast with host Daniel K. Wiig: Constitutional Dialogues: Critically Examining the Narratives, Debates, and the Structure of Power with Constitutional Expert Ilya Shapiro. Our guest, Ilya Shapiro, is a senior fellow and director of constitutional studies at the Manhattan Institute. Ilya's past roles include serving as executive director and senior lecturer at the Georgetown Center for the Constitution, and prior to that, vice president of the Cato Institute. Mr. Shapiro sat down with Dan to provide critical insights and break through the noise to provide facts on the state of the governmental landscape as it relates to the Constitution. We're talking about tariffs, immigration, executive orders, and lawsuits. This is an episode you do not want to miss!

More information on Ilya Shapiro.

The New York County Lawyers Association s proud to present its latest episode: Promoting Common Sense and the Freedom to Take Responsibility: A Discussion with Attorney Philip K. Howard.  Our host Daniel K. Wiig sat down with Mr. Howard to discuss the ideas of common good, human agency, common sense government, and personal responsibility in the age of big government.

Philip K. Howard is a New York Times bestselling author, lawyer, and advocate to simplify government and restore individual responsibility. Beginning with his book The Death of Common Sense in 1995, Philip has written about the central role of human responsibility in a functioning government—the freedom to make timely choices, and to be accountable for them. In 2002, he formed Common Good, a nonpartisan coalition to champion these ideas. Mr. Howard's 2010 TED Talk has been viewed by more than 750,000 people. His 2015 report, “Two Years, Not Ten Years: Redesigning Infrastructure Approvals” exposed the economic and environmental costs of delayed infrastructure approvals, and its proposals have since been incorporated into federal law. Philip has appeared often on television and radio. A graduate of Yale College and the University of Virginia Law School, he is presently Senior Counsel at the law firm Covington & Burling, LLP

More About Our Guest Philip K. Howard.

Happy Earth Day 2025! The New York County Lawyers Association is proud to present the latest episode of the NYCLA Amicus Curiae podcast with host Daniel K. Wiig. In our latest episode, we are sitting down to talk with Stephen Perkins, Chief Operating Officer and Acting Chief Executive Officer for the American Conservation Coalition. In celebration of the Earth Day 2025 theme "Our Power, Our Planet," we are discussing environmental policies that will support American energy dominance, conservation, nuclear energy, environmental regulation, and much more!

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The New York County Lawyers Association is proud to present our latest episode of the NYCLA Amicus Curiae podcast with host Daniel K. Wiig. Our guest is Prof. James G. Hodge, Jr., and the topic of our discussion is the United States healthcare system.

• Is healthcare a right or a privilege?

• Should our tax dollars underwrite the cost of those experiencing poverty?

• Do vaccine mandates impede on Americans' constitutional rights?

• What about religious exemptions? Where do we stand?

• What are the implications of the Supreme Court's decision in Loper Bright Enterprises v. Raimondo on public health policy?

Listen as Daniel sat down with Prof. Hodge to elucidate the U.S. healthcare system and its challenges. They discuss the legal implications of recent SCOTUS decisions and the Constitution; Medicare and Medicaid; vaccinations; and the obvious win in addressing consumable vices. This discussion explains the complicated and multifaceted subject of healthcare in the United States. This is an episode you do not want to miss. Listen now!

More About James G. Hodge, Jr. 

James G. Hodge, Jr., is the Peter Kiewit Foundation Professor of Law at the Sandra Day O'Connor College of Law and Director of the Center for Public Health Law and Policy at Arizona State University. Prof. Hodge has published more than 300 articles in journals of law, medicine, public health, and bioethics; 2 books in public health law; 25 book chapters; and guest-edited four symposium issues in the Journal of Law, Medicine, and Ethics, Jurimetrics, and the Annals of Health Law. He is ranked above the top 1% of downloaded authors in the Social Science Research Network.

Professor Hodge is a national expert on emergency legal preparedness, crisis standards of care, vaccination laws, public health information privacy, and other topics. Before joining the College of Law in 2009, he was a professor at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, an adjunct professor of law at Georgetown University Law Center, and a core faculty member at the Johns Hopkins Berman Institute of Bioethics.

A Discussion on the Trust in Justice Project: A NYCLA Amicus Curiae – Candidly Speaking LIVE/Streaming Podcast Event which occured on January 22, 2025.

Richard Gabriel, an architect of trial science and president of Decision Analysis, will presented the findings of a comprehensive national survey which measures the public’s trust and confidence in our justice system at an in-person/streaming episode of NYCLA’s Amicus Curiae – Candidly Speaking with Host Dan Wiig podcast on January 22, 2025.

The esteemed panel included:

 Linda Kenney Baden, High Profile Criminal Defense Attorney and Host, Justice Served TV

Twyla Carter, Attorney-in-Chief & CEO, The Legal Aid Society

Hon. Michael McMahon, Richmond County District Attorney

Hon. Elizabeth Stong, U.S. Bankruptcy Judge, Eastern District of New York

Dennis Vacco, Former New York State Attorney General

Hon. Rowan D. Wilson, Chief Judge of the State of New York & the New York Court of Appeals

This groundbreaking research reveals public trust and confidence in our main levers of justice: law enforcement, the court systems (including the Supreme Court), Congress, and our corrections system.  The panel discussed the findings and presented the challenges, means and methods available to improve the public’s trust in the justice system.

We're proud to kickoff the fifth season of NYCLA's Amicus Curiae podcast with Host Daniel K. Wiig; our guest is Dr. Paul Lisnek, a multi-Emmy, Beacon, Cablefax, Telly and Communicator award-winning television host and anchor. Paul is the political analyst for WGN-TV in Chicago appearing on all of its # 1 rated news programs. He also anchors “WGN-TV Political Report” and hosts “Paul Lisnek Behind the Curtain.” Dan and Dr. Lisnek sit down to discuss incoming President Trump, his administration, mass deportation of illegal immigrants, the DOJ, The Department of Government Efficiency (“DOGE”), and the power of the Presidency.  We cut through the noise and have a common sense discussion on plans of Trump 2.0. 

Listen now and tell us what you think by leaving a review of the show!

About Dr. Paul M. Lisnek

The New York County Lawyers Association is proud to present the latest episode of the Amicus Curiae podcast with host Daniel K. Wiig. In this episode we are exploring Artificial Intelligence and the judiciary in our conversation with Justice Timothy S. Driscoll, Justice, Commercial Division, Nassau County, New York State Unified Court System. The far reaching implications of AI, an emerging technology, has impacted our everyday lives, the way we do business, and the practice of law. Listen now to: The AI Explosion: Revolution or Evolution? A Conversation with Hon. Timothy S. Driscoll.  

Justice Timothy S. Driscoll is a Justice of the Supreme Court of the State of New York, and has been assigned to the Nassau County Commercial Division since May 2009. Judge Driscoll is also an adjunct professor at Brooklyn Law School and has served as a teaching team member at the Harvard Law School’s Trial Advocacy Workshop. Prior to beginning his judicial service, Judge Driscoll served as Deputy Nassau County Executive for Law Enforcement and Public Safety from July 2004 to December 2007. Judge Driscoll was an Assistant United States Attorney in the Eastern District of New York from November 2000 to July 2004.  He holds degrees from Hofstra University and Harvard Law School.

In this episode, NYCLA's Amicus Curiae Podcast Host Daniel K. Wiig sits down with former New York State Attorney General Dennis C. Vacco to discuss Weinstein's upcoming retrial for sex crimes in New York. The new trial date is scheduled for January 29, 2025. Harvey Weinstein was convicted in 2020 sexual assault and rape, however New York State's highest court overturned his conviction, ruling that the judge should not have allowed testimony from other accusers for prior bad acts for which Mr. Weinstein was not charged. We discuss the Molineux Rule, which is named for the 1901 case People v. Molineux. The questions of evidence and more will be discussed in this informative episode.

Dennis C. Vacco is a Partner with Lippes Mathias and serves on the firm's Executive Committee and as the Government & Corporate Investigations Practice Team Co-Leader.  Mr. Vacco was elected New York State Attorney General in 1994 and served until 1999. Read here for more information about our guest. 

The New York Country Lawyers Association is proud to share its recent episode of the Amicus Curiae Podcast. In this episode host Daniel K. Wiig speaks with Brooklyn Law Stanley A. August Professor of Law William (Bill) Araiza about the Supreme Court's decision which overturned the Chevron Doctrine. The Chevron doctrine was a 40 year Supreme Court precedent that established a framework for how courts should review administrative agencies' interpretations of statutes. The doctrine was overturned by the Supreme Court in Loper Bright Enterprises v. Raimondo and Relentless, Inc. v. Department of Commerce.  What are the implications for administrative law, the Courts, Congress, and federal regulatory agencies? Will there be more reulatory challenges, will planes fall from the sky? These questuions and more are answered in this timely and informative episode. 

Read more about Professor Araiza