Jake sits down with returning guest Fernanda Herrera Spieler, who previously joined us for S2E4. Fernanda traveled to DC and heard oral arguments in the Supreme Court for Department of Homeland Security v. Regents of the University of California, a case which will decide the future of the DACA program and further define the power of the executive branch. She and Jake talk about the oral argument, the questions and responses of the justices, and what this case means for the future of the immigrant community.

Fernanda Herrera Spieler is a 2nd year law student at Loyola University Chicago School of Law. She is working to become an immigration lawyer and defend members of the immigrant community in their quests to live a full life in the United States. Fernanda was born in Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico in 1994 and moved to the United States with her family when she was 2 and a half years old.

Haley and Matt sit down with two antitrust associates at McGuireWoods, Amy Gilbert and Jason Chrestionson, to discuss the 13th Annual ABA International Cartel Workshop that took place in San Francisco, California February 19th – 21st. Amy and Jason discuss the workshop generally, define “international cartel”, describe leniency programs and no-poach agreements, and more.

Amy Gilbert is a senior antitrust associate at McGuireWoods’ Chicago office. Amy's practice focuses on antitrust litigation and compliance counseling, class action litigation, as well as complex commercial litigation. Amy's substantive experience also includes work in conjunction with consumer protection statutes, particularly the Telephone Consumer Protection Act.

Jason Chrestionson is an antitrust associate at McGuireWoods’ Chicago office. Jason advises clients on antitrust litigation and compliance counseling, as well as complex commercial litigation. He has successfully represented clients before the Antitrust Division of the Department of Justice. Jason is also experienced with large, multi-jurisdictional merger control matters.

This week, Jim is speaking with Brian Faughnan, an attorney specializing in professional responsibility and legal ethics. Their conversation has two parts: first, how proposed changes to the Rules of Professional Conduct could increase affordable access to justice, and second, the implications of the RPC on recent goings-on in the U.S. Department of Justice.

Brian Faughnan serves as Associate General Counsel for Lewis Thomason, working with the firm’s president on all ethics and professional responsibility matters within the firm, and is a shareholder in the firm’s Memphis office. He has served as the Chair of the Tennessee Bar Association’s Standing Committee on Ethics and Professional Responsibility since 2009, is the Secretary of the Association of Professional Responsibility Lawyers, and is a co-author of the book “Professional Responsibility in Litigation”, published by the ABA. Some of his writings on legal ethics may be found at faughnanonethics.com.

Jake sits down with Professor Spencer Waller to talk about the history of antitrust law in the United States, how U.S. antitrust law differs from competition law in other countries, and resurgence of antitrust law and breaking up monopolies as a major political issue in the 2020 election.

Spencer Waller is the Faculty Director of the Institute for Consumer Antitrust Studies and the Justice John Paul Stevens Chair in Competition Law at Loyola University Chicago. He began his career as a staff law clerk for the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals, worked for the U.S. Department of Justice in the Foreign Commerce Section of the Antitrust Division and the Chicago Strike Force of the Criminal Division, and practiced at Freeborn & Peters. He has authored and co-authored numerous papers and books on antitrust, including Antitrust and American Business Abroad and The Fall and Rise of the Antitrust Class Action. Professor Waller taught at Brooklyn Law School for ten years, and has been teaching at Loyola since 2000 (including teaching Civil Procedure to most of the current Podvocate team).

We're taking a week off for Valentine's Day, but we've got Jim's full interviews with members of the LUC law school community from S2E8 to get you through the week.

Once again, our thanks to Carly Helman, Teddy Gelderman, Kyrsten D'Amico, Matt Chapman, and Jackie Ross for sitting down with Jim for this episode.

This week, Radhika is sitting down with Richard Rothstein to discuss his book, The Color of Law, which is part of the curriculum for Loyola's Professional Identity Formation course. They also talk about generational movements in creating structural change and the ongoing discussion of reparations for the African-American community.

Richard Rothstein is a Distinguished Fellow of the Economic Policy Institute and a Senior Fellow, emeritus, at the Thurgood Marshall Institute of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund and of the Haas Institute at the University of California (Berkeley). He is the author of The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How our Government Segregated America. The book recovers a forgotten history of how federal, state, and local policy explicitly segregated metropolitan areas nationwide, creating racially homogenous neighborhoods in patterns that violate the Constitution and require remediation. He is also the author of Grading Education: Getting Accountability Right (2008); Class and Schools: Using Social, Economic and Educational Reform to Close the Black–White Achievement Gap (2004); and The Way We Were? Myths and Realities of America’s Student Achievement (1998).

We're back from our winter hiatus! In acknowledgement of Human Trafficking Awareness Month, Jim and Jake are sitting down with Ellie Milan and Kimberly Fay from the Legal Aid Society of Metropolitan Family Services to continue our discussion of the impact of trafficking, this time focused on the Chicagoland area.

Eligia “Ellie” Milan is the Program Coordinator for the Victim Legal Assistance Network (VLAN) at the Legal Aid Society (LAS) of Metropolitan Family Services. Ellie provides case management and counseling services to victims of crime, including psychological evaluations for immigration petitions. She also supervises interns from various levels of education, from high school to Masters-level programs. Prior to joining MFS in 2015, Ellie was a clinical mental health counselor for South Suburban Family Shelter in their residential domestic violence program. She also spent some time in private practice primarily helping clients who were experiencing depression, anxiety, and trauma.

Kimberly Fay, Esq., is an Equal Justice Works fellow with the Legal Aid Society of Metropolitan Family Services, working at their DuPage location. Her work focuses on serving immigrant victims of crime, helping them to achieve stability and security by remedying their immigration status. She also conducts “Know Your Rights” training and other education work on issues affecting immigrants, for other legal and social service providers and for the community directly. She has nearly six years of experience practicing humanitarian and family-based immigration law, five of those years in the public service/non-profit fields. Kimberly is bilingual in Spanish. She has a deep compassion for the immigrant community and a heart for the unique struggles they face.

For the final episode of the fall semester, Matt, Radhika, Haley, Jake, and Jim are sitting down together to talk about the downfall of public figures. How has the development and codification of cancel culture changed our perception of past and future transgressions by public figures in different fields?

After this episode, we'll be on a brief hiatus for winter break, but we'll be back with new episodes starting January 29th.

Matt and Haley sit down with a panel of experts to discuss public shaming in the Internet era, and whether foolish mistakes and missteps should live on forever as "scarlet letters". Our guests today are Leigh Bonsall, a litigator who focused on commercial, professional liability and labor and employment at Hinshaw & Culbertson; Professor Atanu Das, an attorney at Guntin and Gust who teaches cyberlaw and intellectual property at Loyola; and Professor Alex Tsesis, the Raymond & Mary Simon Chair in Constitutional Law.

In the second half of this two-part episode, Haley and Matt sit down again with the Honorable Virginia M. Kendall to discuss her career prior and after her appointment to the bench. Specifically, Judge Kendall discusses when and why human trafficking happens, the different forms of human trafficking, and how she has been able to help trafficking victims throughout the world.

The Honorable Virginia M. Kendall is a United States District Judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois. She was appointed to the bench in January 2006 by President George W. Bush. Prior to her appointment, she served as Deputy Chief in the Criminal Division of the United States Attorney’s Office in Chicago where she worked for over ten years. During her tenure as an Assistant United States Attorney, she was appointed to the U.S. Attorney General’s Advisory Committee which reviewed all multi-jurisdictional child exploitation cases, served as the Child Exploitation Coordinator in the Northern District of Illinois, and as Coordinator of Project Safe Neighborhoods. Judge Kendall is the co-author of Child Exploitation and Trafficking: Examining the Global Challenges and the U.S. Responses, with T. Markus Funk (foreword by The Hon. Richard A. Posner). Judge Kendall received her Bachelor of Arts and Master of Arts degrees from Northwestern University and her Juris Doctor from Loyola University Chicago School of Law.