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A Plentiful Passel Of New Legal Podcasts

There are a lot of great legal podcasts out there, here's a rundown of some of the best new ones on the scene.

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Have you ever had the experience where you buy a new car and suddenly you’re noticing that same model everywhere? I feel that way about legal podcasts. Suddenly, they’re popping up everywhere.

Recently, I launched a new podcast, LawNext, featuring interviews with the innovators and entrepreneurs who are driving what’s next in the legal industry. I’m no stranger to podcasting, having cohosted, along with J. Craig Williams, the longest-running legal podcast, Lawyer 2 Lawyer, for 13 years on the Legal Talk Network (LTN). I also cohosted another LTN program, Law Technology Now, along with Monica Bay.

But this is the first podcast I’ve produced independently of the LTN (thanks to the expert engineering and production help of my son Ben Ambrogi), and it has made me more aware than ever of both the fun and work of creating and launching a podcast.

More to the point, it has made me hyper-aware of all the really good legal podcasts out there, and especially of the many new ones launching recently. Over the past few months, as I’ve been preparing to launch LawNext, it seems that I’m coming across a new legal podcast on a regular basis.

So today, I thought I’d round up some of the new legal podcasts I’ve seen launch in recent months. Emphasis: “new.” This is not a roundup of legal podcasts generally. (For an article I wrote on trends in legal podcasting generally, see The Rise and Fall and Rise Again of Legal Podcasts.)

Herewith, my roundup:

The Geek in Review. From two of the authors of the popular blog 3 Geeks and a Law Blog, this weekly podcast discusses current events in legal information. It is hosted by Greg Lambert, chief knowledge services officer at Jackson Walker and immediate past president of the American Association of Law Libraries, and Marlene Gebauer, director of knowledge solutions at Greenberg Traurig.

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Law Firm Auto Pilot. Well known in legal circles as Ernie the Attorney, Ernest Svenson is a long-time practicing attorney and legal blogger who now consults with law firms on going paperless and leveraging technology. He describes his recently launched podcast as being for lawyers who want to find a better way of practicing law, and his target audience is solo and small firm lawyers.

At Liberty. From the American Civil Liberties Union, this new podcast explores the biggest civil rights and civil liberties issues of the day. Hosted by Lee Rowland, senior staff attorney with the ACLU’s Speech, Privacy and Technology Project, the show has so far tackled such topics as reproductive rights, immigrant families, Black Lives Matter, and the Supreme Court’s uncertain future.

Women in Legal Podcast. In this podcast, Chelsey Lambert, founder and CEO of the Legal Technology Media Group, shares the stories of women who are making waves in the legal industry as leaders in law, practicing attorneys, or by working as specialists in areas such as legal technology or legal marketing.

The Modern Lawyer Podcast. With a promise to deliver “everything today’s modern attorney needs to know about the future of legal practice,” this podcast is produced by the legal research company Casetext and hosted by Anand Upadhye, an attorney and Casetext’s VP of business development.

State Bar of Texas Podcast. This podcast has been around since 2016 as a series of intermittent episodes, but in June, the bar relaunched it in conjunction with the Legal Talk Network as a monthly program providing coverage on news and topics relating to the legal profession in Texas and more broadly. It is hosted by Rocky Dhir, president and CEO of Atlas Legal Research in Dallas.

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Lunch Hour Legal Marketing. This is another reboot of an existing podcast, again from the Legal Talk Network. Dormant since 2016, it is now being taken over by two new hosts, Gyi Tsakalakis, founder and director of AttorneySync, and Kelly Street, marketing director at AttorneySync. The monthly show, they say, will feature high-profile marketing gurus as guests, both within the legal industry and across all fields of professional services.

WB Perspectives. Warshaw Burstein, a mid-sized New York law firm, officially launched this podcast in May, although it wisely did so with a good number of episodes already in the can. The focus is on providing businesses and individuals with insights into the issues shaping their work, life and community. The firm says it is one of the first multi-issue law firm podcasts, and topics span commercial real estate, immigration, Title IX, corporate, family law, construction and more.

LAWsome. Business development and digital marketing are the focus of this podcast, which is produced by the legal marketing firm Consultwebs and hosted by two of its consultants, Jacob Sanders and Paul Julius. Saying they want to inspire legal professionals “to be a little more LAWsome in their work and lives,” their recent episodes have looked at a variety of topics, from work/life balance and chatbots to procurement and reputation management.

If experience has taught me anything, it is that no sooner will I hit the publish button on this post than I will remember (or be reminded of) other new legal podcasts. If you have a new show, let me know about it on Twitter (@bobambrogi) or by email (my last name @gmail.com).

[Ed. Note: Very true, Bob. This is where Above the Law is compelled to remind everyone of our stable of podcasts.

Biglaw Book Of Business, launched in March with ATL founder David Lat and Robert Kinney, Founder and President of Kinney Recruiting discussing market analysis and notable lateral moves.

The Jabot, with ATL Senior Editor Kathryn Rubino covering the challenges women, people of color, LGBTQIA, and other diverse populations face in the legal industry. It kicked off in May.

And, while hardly a new podcast, it’s worth remembering the internet’s favorite explicit rated legal industry podcast, Thinking Like A Lawyer with Elie Mystal and Joe Patrice (produced by the Legal Talk Network) where we talk about… well everything from choosing the right law school to the Supreme Court to video games and college sports. How badly does a legal career warp your perspective on everything? Find out every week.]

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