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Episode Directory
May 2012
- 5/22/2012: Special Encore Presentation: Talking Law & Media With Lionel and Forbes’ Dan Fisher Listen Now
- 5/8/2012: Brooke Gladstone of NPRs “On The Media”; BigLaw/Big problems Listen Now
- 5/1/2012: Special Encore Presentation: Zimmerman/Trayvon Martin; Lawyer business development Listen Now
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Richard Aborn
Richard Aborn is President of the Citizens Crime Commission of New York, an independent nonprofit organization working to make criminal justice and public safety more effective through innovation, research, and education. He is also a Managing Partner of the law firm Constantine Cannon and President of Constantine Aborn Advisory Services, which advises police departments, criminal justice agencies and other organizations on high-level strategy and management issues. Among his other accomplishments, in the 1990s Richard was President of Handgun Control Inc. In that role was instrumental in the passage of the Brady Bill and the legislation banning assault weapons and large capacity clips. And in 2009, he was a well-received candidate for New York’s District Attorney, ultimately losing the race to Cyrus Vance Jr. View Guest page
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Mike Agnello
Mike Agnello is an attorney at Donohue & Partners in Freehold, NJ, and the chair of the Legal Studies department at TCI College of Technology. He is also an owner of SportsShouting.com, a social network for sports fans. View Guest page
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Neil M. Barofsky
Neil M. Barofsky is a Senior Research Scholar/Senior Fellow and Adjunct Professor of Law at New York University School of Law. Mr. Barofsky was the Special United States Treasury Department Inspector General overseeing the Troubled Assets Relief Program – or TARP -- from December 2008 until March, 2011. He was nominated for this job by President George W. Bush. He is a former Assistant U.S. Attorney in New York who headed the office's Mortgage Fraud unit. He is also a contributing editor to Bloomberg News. View Guest page
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Robert H. Bork
Robert H. Bork, Jr., specializes in the development and implementation of communication strategies that support litigation and legal policy. In his many years of experience managing the public environment surrounding high-risk, high-profile litigation, he has worked on behalf of lawyers, CEOs and general counsel of major U.S. and international corporate clients. He has been engaged to counsel clients at every stage of litigation, from pre-litigation through appeals up to and including the Supreme Court of the United States. According to the magazine PR Week, Mr. Bork is "considered a pioneer in the area of litigation PR." He has designed strategies in some of the most important cases and policy battles in recent years. He has also been a journalist, a special assistant to United States Trade Representative Carla A. Hills and a visiting fellow at The Heritage Foundation. Mr. Bork was graduated from Carleton College, and was a Herbert J. Davenport Fellow in Business and Economic Journalism at the University of Missouri School of Journalism. View Guest page
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John Carns
John Carns is the Senior Associate Athletic Director for Compliance at the University of Louisville. He is in his 14th year with the Cardinals and is responsible for the development and implementation of the University's policies and procedures in accordance with NCAA, BIG EAST and University regulations. Carns joined the University of Louisville staff in August of `98 after two years assisting in the compliance office at the University of Miami (Fla.). Prior to his roles in athletics, Carns worked in government for the City of Binghamton (N.Y.). He was a Community Relations Assistant for the Mayor's office, an Economic Development Assistant, and the Highway Safety Program Director. Carns earned a B.A. in Communications at State University College at Oswego (N.Y.) in 1985. He received his Law degree from the Thomas Cooley Law School in Lansing, Michigan, and earned a Master's Degree in Sports Administration form St. Thomas University in Miami, Fla. in 1997. View Guest page
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Dean Erwin Chemerinsky
Dean Erwin Chemerinsky is the founding dean and distinguished professor of law at the University of California, Irvine. His areas of expertise include constitutional law, civil rights, civil liberties, and appellate litigation. Prior to joining UC-Irvine in 2007, Dean Chemerinsky taught at Duke Unversity Law School for four years, during which he won the Duke University Scholar-Teacher of the Year Award in 2006. Before that he taught for 21 years at the University of Southern California School of Law, and served for four years as director of the Center for Communications Law and Policy. He has also taught at UCLA School of Law and DePaul University College of Law. He is the author of seven books, most recently, The Conservative Assault on the Constitution, which recently came out in paperback. He is also the author of nearly 200 articles in top law review publications. View Guest page
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Steve Dittmore
Steve Dittmore is an Assistant Professor of Recreation and Sport Management at the University of Arkansas. He teaches a variety of courses at the undergraduate and graduate levels in Sport Communication and Promotions, Sport Management, Finance, and Research Methods. He co-authored the textbook “Sport Public Relations: Managing Organizational Communication,” published by Human Kinetics in 2006. Professor Dittmore received a PhD in Educational Leadership and Organizational Development from the University of Louisville in 2007, an MA in Communication from Drake University in 1995, and a BA in news-editorial journalism also from Drake University in 1991. View Guest page
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Harvey Englander
Harvey Englander has been at the center of California’s political and business life for more than 40 years. He brings his expertise at creating and running political campaigns to his work in developing public affairs campaigns and crisis and litigation communications for companies and non-profit organizations. He’s been named a Public Affairs Executive of the Year by PR News, and his firm --- Englander, Knabe and Allen -- has been the fastest growing public affairs firms in Los Angeles for many years. His firm is currently the second largest public affairs firm in Los Angeles. As a strategic planner, he has created and successfully executed numerous public relations and public affairs campaigns covering a wide variety of industries. Englander is known for his ability to step into any situation and create focus; implementing a strategic approach as a foundation for applying successful public relations tactics. A UCLA graduate, Englander serves on George Washington University’s Council on American Politics and is a board member of the UCLA School of Public Policy. View Guest page
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Daniel Fisher
Daniel Fisher is a Senior Editor of Forbes magazine who covers legal affairs, corporate finance, macroeconomics and, occasionally, sailing. He also writes the “Full Disclosure” blog at Forbes.com. Dan was the Southwest Bureau manager for Forbes in Houston from 1999 to 2003. Before that, he worked for Bloomberg Business News in Houston, the Dallas Times Herald and the Houston Post. After his time Texas, Dan returned home to his native Connecticut for a Knight fellowship at Yale Law School. He also is a Chartered Financial Analyst. View Guest page
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Barry Friedman
Professor Barry Friedman, the Jacob D. Fuchsberg Professor of Law at New York University Law School, is one of the country’s leading authorities on constitutional law and the federal courts. He is a prolific scholar, working at the intersections of law, politics and history. His writing appears regularly in the nation’s top law reviews, and he is also the author of several books, including – most importantly for our purposes -- The Will of the People: How Public Opinion Has Influenced the Supreme Court and Shaped the Meaning of the Constitution. His other writing has appeared in The New York Times, Salon, The Los Angeles Times, Politico and The New Republic. In addition to being a law professor and author, Professor Friedman also regularly serves as a litigator or litigation consultant in a variety of matters in the federal and state courts. Professor Friedman graduated from the University of Chicago and received his law degree magna cum laude from Georgetown University. View Guest page
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Roy Ginsburg
Roy Ginsburg is an attorney who coaches lawyers one-to-one in the areas of business development, practice management and career development. He’s worked with hundreds of individual attorneys across the country for support in these areas, and for his coaching expertise. Roy is also a practicing lawyer who has practiced for more than 25 years. He is currently legal marketing ethics counsel to a number of Thomson Reuters businesses, including FindLaw and Super Lawyers. Roy holds his law degree from the University of Wisconsin Law School, and an undergraduate degree in industrial and labor relations from Cornell University. He is a member of the Minnesota State Bar Association, and he has twice received their President's Award. www.royginsburg.com View Guest page
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Brooke Gladstone
Brooke Gladstone is Managing Editor and co-host of National Public Radio’s “On The Media.” Brooke has a long history in public radio. She has been senior editor of both “Weekend Edition” and “All Things Considered,” reported from Moscow during Boris Yeltsin’s presidency, and became NPR’s first media correspondent. She joined “On the Media” in January 2001. Brooke is the recipient of two Peabody Awards, a National Press Club Award, an Overseas Press Club Award and several others. She also is the author of The Influencing Machine, a media manifesto in graphic form, which was published in 2011 and was listed among the year’s top books by The New Yorker, Publisher’s Weekly, Kirkus Reviews and Library Journal. It was named among the “10 Masterpieces of Graphic Nonfiction” by The Atlantic. View Guest page
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Tom Goldstein
Tom Goldstein, a partner in Goldstein & Russell of Washington, DC. Is among the leaders of the Supreme Court bar. He has argued 24 cases before the Supreme Court, on areas such as federal patent law, class actions, labor and employment and disability law. He has been repeatedly recognized as one of the nation’s top appellate advocates, and also teaches Supreme Court Litigation at both Stanford and Harvard Law Schools. In additional to all that, Tom founded, and is the publisher of SCOTUSblog, which in 2010 became the only blog ever to receive the American Bar Association’s Silver Gavel Award for fostering the American public’s understanding of law and the legal system. Tom has been repeatedly recognized as a leading member of the bar. In 2010, The National Law Journal named him one of the 40 most influential lawyers of the decade; Tom notably was ten years younger than any other law firm partner listed. Legal Times named him one of Washington’s “90 Greatest Lawyers of the Last 30 Years” and praised him for “transforming Supreme Court practice. He is also included in the National Law Journal’s current list of the nation’s 100 most influential lawyers. View Guest page
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Ashby Jones
Ashby Jones is a Legal Affairs Reporter for The Wall Street Journal. Ashby was the founding editor of the Wall Street Journal’s Law Blog, the most influential blog in the nation on legal topics. He was also lead writer for the blog for nearly two years, writing more than 4,000 blog posts. Ashby has covered the legal and business worlds for more than a decade. He came to The Wall Street Journal in 2005 after working at The Deal, a trade publication for the financial and M&A community. Before becoming a journalist, Ashby worked as a litigator at a large law firm and clerked for a federal judge, the late J. Edward Lumbard. View Guest page
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John Kador
John Kador is an author, consultant, and speaker whose work centers on identifying and describing best practices in leadership and promoting the highest standards of personal accountability, humility, and transparency. His book, “Effective Apology: Mending Fences, Building Bridges and Restoring Trust,” describes the benefits that leaders accrue when they embrace apology rather than shy from it. John is the author of more than 10 books, including the new eBook, “The Flawless Interview: Eight Easy-to-Follow Steps for Career Success.” John began his career in Washington DC at a high-tech advertising and public relations agency. For the past 30 years he has been the principal of Kador Communications, providing editorial assistance to dozens of corporate and media clients. View Guest page
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Jerold S. Kayden
Jerold S. Kayden, an urban planner and lawyer, is the Frank Backus Williams Professor of Urban Planning and Design, co-chair of the Department of Urban Planning and Design, and the Director of the Master in Urban Planning Program at the Harvard Graduate School of Design. He specializes in planning and environmental law, public and private real estate development, and the impact of regulations on design. He has written and consulted widely in these areas, both domestically and internationally. Kayden is coauthor of “Privately Owned Public Space: The New York City Experience.” He is also the founding president of the group “Advocates for Privately Owned Public Space.” View Guest page
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Arthur G. Levin
Arthur G. Levin is the founder and President of AGL ASSOCIATES, a firm specializing in law firm consulting, lawyer business development training and working with companies on how to sell products and services to law firms. His clients consist of law firms of all sizes, other professional services firms and a wide range of private businesses. Levin has developed and demonstrated an ability to simplify operations, reduce costs, increase production, improve managerial services and increase law firm profits. Prior to his current endeavor, Mr. Levin was the Managing Director of three major law firms. View Guest page
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Lionel
Talkers Magazine named talk radio legend Lionel one of “The 100 most important radio talk show hosts of all time.” Lionel started broadcasting more than 20 years ago at 970 WFLA in Tampa, Florida. He then moved to 770 WABC and 710 WOR in New York, provided commentary for WCBS 880 News and broadcast one of the first Internet radio shows on eYada.com. He also hosted his own show, “Snap Judgments,” on CourtTV. Lionel currently provides television commentary for the 10 O’Clock News on New York’s WPIX and provides daily commentary on New York FM News station 101.9 He also produces audio and video podcasts on his website LionelMedia.com, and is the author of “Everyone’s Crazy Except You and Me . . . And I’m Not So Sure About You” View Guest page
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Harlan Loeb
Harlan Loeb is a nationally recognized expert in corporate enterprise risk, including issues and crisis management, crisis training and litigation communications. With close to 20 years experience, Harlan’s background includes: strategic counsel and execution across a broad range of operational, strategic, and financial crisis management engagements, high profile litigation communications assignments and comprehensive public strategy campaigns. His work spans all business sectors from health to technology and from manufacturing to finance. He has worked closely with a variety of governmental entities to develop issues and crisis management protocols and training guides including work with the United States Air Force Academy, the United States Justice Department, the United States Air Force, and the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. Harlan is a graduate of Vassar College and earned his Law Degree with honors from the University of Minnesota. Harlan is also a faculty member at Northwestern University Law School. View Guest page
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Ken Makovsky
Ken Makovsky is CEO of Makovsky and Company, one of the nation’s leading independent PR firms. He founded Makovsky and Company in 1979, an over the years has received many awards and honors, including being named a “PR All-Star” and the top business-to-business counselor in the public relations industry. He was the 2007 winner of the John W. Hill Award from the New York Chapter of the Public Relations Society of America and was inducted into the PR News Hall of Fame in 2008. Ken is also a lawyer, receiving his J.D. – along with his Bachelors Degree -- from Washington University in St. Louis. He also runs one of the best blogs in the industry – called “My Three Cents”— which can be found at makovskyblog.blogspot.com. Ken’s blog was recently named one of the top 10 CEO blogs by Chief Executive magazine. View Guest page
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Jason Mendelson
Jason Mendelson is a lawyer and venture capitalist at the Foundry Group in Boulder Colorado, which invests in early-stage information technology companies. Jason has more than a decade of experience in the venture capital and technology industries in a multitude of investing, operational and engineering roles. Prior to his involvement in the venture capital field, Jason was an attorney with Cooley Godward Kronish LLP, where he practiced corporate and securities law with an emphasis on representation of emerging companies. He was also one of the first full-time, in-house general counsels at a venture capital firm. Jason has been on the forefront of thought leadership and has co-chaired the National Venture Capital Association's General Counsel group. Jason holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Economics and a law degree from the University of Michigan. He blogs about his experiences in the venture industry on his blog Mendelson's Musings and at www.askthevc.com. View Guest page
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Jenna Ashley Robinson
Jenna Ashley Robinson joined the Pope Center in January 2007. She was previously the E.A. Morris Fellowship Assistant at the John Locke Foundation, where she worked since 2001. Robinson graduated from NC State University in 2003 with majors in political science and French. She has studied at the University of East Anglia School of American Studies in Norwich, England. She received her master's degree in political science from UNC-Chapel Hill in December 2005 and is a Ph.D. candidate in political science, with a concentration in American politics and a minor in methods. View Guest page
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James Rocco
Jim Rocco is a marketing professional for HBO Sports and an avid sports fan. He has been following the Barry Bonds case carefully, along with other top sports legal issues. A graduate of Long Island University (C.W. Post), Jim has worked in broadcasting for nearly 20 years. View Guest page
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Peter Zeughauser
Peter Zeughauser, of the Zeughauser Group, is one of the legal industry's premier strategists. He counsels leaders of top-ranked law firms of all sizes on the challenges and opportunities they face in an increasingly competitive industry. He specializes in law firm mergers and combinations, as well as strategic growth planning. Peter launched his consulting practice in 1995. Before that, he practices law for twenty years, including more than a decade as senior vice president and general counsel of The Irvine Company. Under his leadership, the company's legal department was ranked as one of the top ten in the country by the National Law Journal. Peter is the author of the book “Lawyers Are From Mercury, Clients Are From Pluto,” and since 1996 has been a contributing editor for American Lawyer magazine. He is frequently quoted in publications such as The Wall Street Journal, Fortune, Business Week, The Washington Post and many others. View Guest page
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Special Encore Presentation: Talking Law & Media With Lionel and Forbes’ Dan Fisher
May 22, 2012
Hosted by Jim Haggerty
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Most media coverage of court cases and other legal issues just doesn’t do justice (if you’ll pardon the pun) to the issues and principles at stake. Today In The Court Of Public Opinion, we’ll look at why that is… and how it should change. Join us for provocative discussions with lawyer and Talk Radio Legend Lionel, as well as with Dan Fisher, who covers legal affairs and financial matters for Forbes.
In the Court of Public Opinion
Tuesday at 9 AM Pacific Time on VoiceAmerica Business Channel
In The Court of Public Opinion is an innovative and insightful look at areas where law media and public perception collide. From high-profile court cases to the latest policy and public relations battles, In the Court of Public Opinion will give you at the inside scoop how public opinion influences legal issues, and how what happens in the public arena affects us all. In an era where government regulation and private litigation influence every aspect of our lives, all news is legal news. In the Court of Public Opinion will provide you with a provocative roadmap for navigating legal issues in the media age. Tune in every Tuesday at 9 AM Pacific Time on the VoiceAmerica Business Channel.
Jim Haggerty
Attorney, author and communications consultant Jim Haggerty is an internationally known expert in public relations, crisis communications and managing the public elements of high-profile legal and policy battles. Jim is the CEO of PRCG/Strategic Communications and the author of In the Court of Public Opinion: Winning Strategies for Litigation Communications, now in its second edition. He writes a regular column for Corporate Counsel magazine. His writing has also appeared in The New York Times, USA Today, The National Law Journal and Forbes.
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