13 Legal Podcasts Your Mother would Love

It happens every year. Mother’s Day sneaks up and you have to last-minute brainstorm how to spoil the woman who raised you. Instead of resorting to the typical flowers and box of chocolates, look no further than Legal Talk Network. This month, the network produced episodes covering the biggest topics in legal like gender diversity, mental health, legal tech innovation, and practice management. Whether your mom needs the advice and support of other lawyers or is just looking for wholesome content that informs as well as entertains, Legal Talk Network has everything she needs to celebrate herself this Mother’s Day.

Gender in Law

Gender Discrimination in Biglaw

Achieving true gender diversity is a challenge anywhere but has proven especially difficult at big law firms. This episode of Lawyer 2 Lawyer with Deborah K. Marcuse delves into the importance of educating firms and companies about gender and pregnancy discrimination.

Biglaw Continues To Struggle With Gender Equity

Continuing the conversation on gender discrimination in Biglaw specifically, Above the Law’s Kathryn Rubino and Joe Patrice discuss the strategic responses of Jones Day to the gender discrimination lawsuit and other evidence of inequality in major law firms.

Workplace Discrimination — From Investigation to Litigation

Suzanne Anderson talks about her career as a trial attorney with the United States Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) including the current state of discrimination in the workplace and how the office investigates claims.

Work-Life Balance

Work and Life: How Two Solo Lawyers Balance Busy Careers, Marriage, and Parenting

Lawyers are workaholics but that doesn’t mean their lives have to suffer because of it. Solo lawyers and married couple Renee and Phil Stackhouse open up about how they manage their personal lives as a couple and as parents.

Mental Health and Well-Being: How Law Students Can Get Help and Help Others

For lawyers, the high stress of the job starts before they even leave school. Terry Harrell and John Berry talk about how they became involved with mental health awareness and explain the types of support available through lawyer assistance programs.

Nonprofit law pioneer applauds ‘low bono’ growth

Before they were buzzwords, Luz Herrera was a pioneer in the world of “low-bono” practice, nonprofit law firms, and legal incubators. Luz Herrera talks about how a low-bono practice can enable a lawyer to balance the desire to help people with making a living.

Technology

Internet Defamation: What Lawyers Need to Know

What do lawyers need to look out for when handling a defamation case? Guest Joe Meadows outlines what constitutes online defamation and shares the key issues lawyers need to consider in this highly nuanced practice area.

Emojis and Gifs: Pictorial Language Implications in Law

Dennis Kennedy and Tom Mighell talk about how helpful pictorial language is in adding nuance and emotion to written word and provide the basics on emoji/GIF literacy. They also discuss the potential legal industry applications of GIFs and emojis.

Automation in the Legal Industry: How AI Empowers Paralegals

Artificial intelligence doesn’t have to be a looming technology threatening to take jobs away from humans. Rather, we can make it a tool that helps lawyers and paralegals. Maddy Martin discusses the impact AI can have on paralegals and how it can free them up for higher level tasks.

The Business of Law

Should You Start Your Law Firm as a B Corp?, with Kimberly Pray and Kate Kilberg

Everything you need to know about B Corporations in one episode. Kim Pray and Kate Kilberg dish out everything they know including what B Corporations are and what they wish they would’ve known before starting their own law firm.

Optimizing SEO with Schema Markup

Can applying schema markup in their SEO help lawyers make better business decisions?

Martha van Berkel shares her knowledge about all things schema markup, a.k.a. structured data, including how it works and how it can help lawyers.

Why Online Presence Matters

How are clients finding you and why does this matter? Search engines, review sites, social media, online legal directories, and websites all show what a lawyer and their firm has to offer. Gyi Tsakalakis and Jess Birken explain how to put your best digital foot forward.

Just for fun

Gag

Criminal or civil, plaintiff or defendant — what’s the one piece of legal advice all should follow? It’s easier than you may think. Simply, shut up! Ken White talks to Steven Zansberg about gag orders, how far judges can go to restrict the dissemination of case information, and whether these orders are constitutional.