Name: Episode 1: Old Dirty Bastards by ALAB Series
Duration: 1 h 6 min 21 s
Description: Tarik, Andy and Michael discuss Giuffre vs. Maxwell, the defamation case at the eye of the Jeffrey Epstein media storm.

"I've done a lot of deals, believe me folks, tremendous deals." -Tarik

Helped me fall asleep for a nap the other day when my back was hurting a little too much to sleep without something to distract me.

Andy, Michael, Tarik, and Tim reflect on the 2007 Oscar-nominated film Michael Clayton.  While the movie has been hailed as a masterwork of the legal thriller genre, how true to life is its portrait of the evil corporate lawyer?

Episode 22: ALAB at the Movies - Michael Clayton

Tarik, Andy and Michael discuss Giuffre vs. Maxwell, the defamation case at the eye of the Jeffrey Epstein media storm.

Episode 1: Old Dirty Bastards

Do you want to go to law school? Do you have a terminal case of Lawyer Brain? Andy, Michael, and Tarik describe the most optimal route to catching this debilitating affliction.

Be Like Brett

Episode 2: Lawyer Brain, Pt. 1 - Be Like Brett

Andy, Michael, and Tarik play on the astroturf that is one of the more ill-considered lawsuits any ostensible lawyer has ever pushed a "client" to file: Vic Mignona's doomed lawsuit against the #metoo movement. (Part 1 of 2)

Weeb Wars Pt. 1

Episode 4: Weeb Wars, Pt. 1

Weeb Wars concludes with a massive double episode - Tarik, forced to flee his home after being doxed by Law Twitter, joins Andy and Michael remote from an undisclosed location to finish their review of Vic Mignona's dismissed grudge lawsuit and where it goes from here.

Audio engineering courtesy Aaron Oppenheim, find him on Twitter at https://twitter.com/gib_gab

Weeb Wars Pt 2

Episode 5: Weeb Wars, Pt. 2

Andy, Michael, and Tarik look at the Office of Legal Counsel, the elite unit within the US Department of Justice where the most elite legal minds in the country go to exchange their very souls for the promise of a life of ease and riches.

Lawyer Brain Part 2

Episode 6: Lawyer Brain, Pt. 2 - The Sandpit of the Soul

Michael, Tarik, and Tim explore the "Omegaverse" and find, among its other natural treasures, a nefarious tale of a plundering capitalist hell-bent on using the derricks of the law and courts to extract this magical land's value, to the exclusion of the communities that have tilled its soil for years.

Episode 13: There Will Be Knots

Andy, Michael, Tarik, and Tim teach you how to run an effective Anti-Money Laundering operation, by exploring all the myriad ways that Deutsche Bank failed to do so, breaking the rules again and again in its stunning relationship with pedophile financier Jeffrey Epstein.

Epstein's Bank

Episode 14: Epstein's Bank

In their jumbo 17th episode, Andy, Tarik, and Tim review the disturbing case of the Wolverine Watchmen and their arrest for the planned kidnapping and/or arrest of Michigan governor Gretchen Whitmer.  They review the details of the case and then ponder the larger issues, including whether the plotters’ stated goals of founding a new society based on the Bill of Rights passes Constitutional muster, and whether under OLC precedent it’s okay to drone strike the persons responsible for radicalizing these men.

Liberate Michigan!

Episode 17: Liberate Michigan!

With the death of Ruth Bader Ginsburg and the ascension of Amy Coney Barrett, a 6-3 right-wing majority appears locked in at the Supreme Court potentially for decades. To comfort grieving progressives, Andy, Tarik, and Tim take you on a mind journey to an alternate Earth where Hillary won and a plucky Dartmouth lad named Neal Katyal achieved his greatest dream: Supreme Court Justice Neal Katyal.

Episode 18: These Things I See and More

In a companion piece to their episode on the plot to assassinate the governor of Michigan, Andy, Tarik, and Tim arrive three weeks late with their ill-informed, and in places ill-considered, takes on the January 6, 2021 Capitol riot and its fallout.

Episode 20: Let's Lawyer Our Way Out

An infrequent podcast series about the American legal system, brought to you by Andy, Michael, Tarik, Tim and Charles.  ALAB aims to tell engaging stories about lawyers, legal cases, legal issues, or the legal profession more generally, with a focus on the outrageous, excessive, and/or absurd.

Episode 1: Old Dirty Bastards

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