{"id":29571,"date":"2023-12-20T13:47:30","date_gmt":"2023-12-20T18:47:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/?p=1022700"},"modified":"2023-12-20T13:47:30","modified_gmt":"2023-12-20T18:47:30","slug":"the-unbearable-lightness-of-being-rudys-wallet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/legal-innovation-center\/2023\/12\/20\/the-unbearable-lightness-of-being-rudys-wallet\/","title":{"rendered":"The Unbearable Lightness Of Being Rudy&#8217;s Wallet"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_530407\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-530407\" class=\"wp-image-530407 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2019\/03\/rudy-giuliani-GettyImages-963758032-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-530407\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">(Photo by Alex Wong\/Getty Images)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Law firms may hem and haw about raises, but they&#8217;re still doing <a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/2023\/12\/biglaw-partnership-is-very-profitable\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">more than all right for themselves<\/a>. Rudy&#8217;s defamation trial <a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/2023\/12\/rudy-giuliani-defames-plaintiffs-on-the-courthouse-steps-on-the-first-day-of-defamation-trial\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">did not go well<\/a>. Before <a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/2023\/12\/michael-cohen-fake-case-cites\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the latest development in the case<\/a>, we talked about Michael Cohen&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/2023\/12\/michael-cohen-trump-lawyer-chatgpt\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">fake case brief<\/a> and the implications of legal technology on criminal justice.<\/p>\n<iframe border=\"0\" class=\"shortcode_iframe\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"auto\" allowtransparency=\"true\" scrolling=\"auto\" src=\"https:\/\/legaltalknetwork.com\/podcasts\/thinking-like-a-lawyer\/2023\/12\/the-unbearable-lightness-of-being-rudys-wallet\/?embed\" width=\"100%\"height=\"115\"><\/iframe>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p class=\"summary\">Defaming people doesn&#8217;t pay well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":147,"featured_media":530407,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3176],"tags":[3051,459,3109,7,7262],"class_list":["post-29571","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-podcasts","tag-michael-cohen","tag-podcasts","tag-rudy-giuliani","tag-technology","tag-thinking-like-a-lawyer-podcast"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.3 - 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