Name: Episode 6: Lawyer Brain, Pt. 2 - The Sandpit of the Soul by ALAB Series
Duration: 1 h 30 min 30 s
Description: 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.

You can't count on Law to define morality, or even morality to define Law.  The best you can do is hope that a Ven Diagram of the matches as much as possible for as much of the populace as possible.

A very good episode - dark stuff, with appropriate dark laughs to accompany the material.

guys, another tragically hilariously informative episode

Andy, Michael, Tim, and Tarik discuss "race norming" and related statistical shenanigans being used in courts today -- most famously in the NFL's concussion class action settlement -- to disadvantage women and people of color, a facially indefensible practice that somehow goes virtually unchallenged.

Episode 21: The Racism's Baked Right In

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

Michael, Tim, Tarik, and newest ALAB-er Charles discuss the expansive sanctions order issued by a Michigan court against the intellectual architects of the so-called "Kraken" lawsuits that sought to invalidate the official results of the 2020 US Presidential election.

Episode 25: Release the Crackpots

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

The perfect crime. The perfect criminal. The Perfect Client. 

Join us as Dr. Craig "Faketoshi" Wright's overweening self regard and cavalier disregard for truth careens headlong into a brick wall and he learns a costly lesson: that he is decidedly NOT the smartest man in the courtroom.

Original intro theme courtesy Calming Chamber. Follow him on Twitter at https://twitter.com/gloomfather and on Bandcamp at https://orlandogloom.bandcamp.com

Faketoshi: The Perfect Client

Episode 3: Faketoshi - The Perfect Client

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

Back in the innocent days of Episode 7, Andy, Michael, and Tarik thought that US economic sanctions policy had reached its apex of stupidity. But COVID-19, as it has with so many things, shows them that no, things can always get stupider. A lot stupider. Join them as they explore the "might makes right" underpinnings of international law from the American perspective.

Under Siege 2: Dark Territory

Episode 11: Under Siege 2: Dark Territory

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

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

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