Not Your Average Wellness Podcast for Lawyers

The Fear and Loathing in the Law Edition: In this edition, Brian Cuban, attorney, best-selling author, and brother of Dallas Mavericks owner and entrepreneur Mark Cuban, discusses his latest book, The Addicted Lawyer, Tales of The Bar, Booze, Blow, & Redemption, which details his... by @theBar

58 min listen

The Best Speech in Life is Free Edition: An Interview with Professor Geoffrey Stone: In this edition, host Jonathan Amarilio is joined by distinguished constitutional law scholar and University of Chicago Law School Professor Geoffrey Stone for a discussion about current challenges surrounding the First Amendment and free speech. They... by @theBar

47 min listen

The Love and Divorce Edition: In this Edition, hosts Jon Amarilio and Jennifer Byrne talk with Chicago-based divorce practitioners from two of the city’s most prominent domestic relations law firms, Miles Beermann, of Beermann, Pritikin, Mirabelli & Swerdove LLP, and... by @theBar

68 min listen

The AI Edition: Resistance is Futile: In this edition, our hosts Jon Amarilio and Catherine Sanders Reach talk with Dennis Garcia, Assistant General Counsel for Microsoft Corporation and Conor Malloy the Founding Partner of Chi City Legal about the ever-evolving, hot-button topic of... by @theBar

44 min listen

The Illinois Budget Crisis Edition: How the @#$^! Did This Happen?: In this edition, our hosts Jon Amarilio and Nykoel Kahn talk with Illinois State Representative Greg Harris about the Illinois budget crisis that spiraled out of control and dominated headlines for Illinoisans throughout much of 2017. Representative... by @theBar

36 min listen

The Mastering the Game Edition: Career Tips from Diversity Expert Sharon Jones: In this edition, lawyer, diversity expert and author, Sharon Jones, provides an update on the current state of gender diversity in the legal profession and chats with co-hosts Jonathan Amarilio and Chastidy Burns about strategies to master the... by @theBar

40 min listen

Benching Judicial Independence: The Poland Edition: In 2017, the Polish government passed an act to remove more than a third of the country’s supreme court judges and replace them with judges sympathetic to the governing party. Despite outcry from much of the public, Poland’s legal community, and... by @theBar

46 min listen

The Chicago Gun Violence Edition: In this edition, our hosts Jon Amarilio, Jack Sanker and Mghnon Martin ponder the question: What the heck is going on in Chicago and gun violence? They’re joined by Amy Thompson from the Office of the Cook County Public Defender and Max Kapustin... by @theBar

45 min listen

The Financing the Fight Edition: In this edition, our hosts Jon Amarilio and Jack Sanker are joined by Ajit Singh of the Law Finance Group and Travis Lenkner of Burford Capital to discuss how litigation financing is changing the face of modern litigation, the business of lawsuits,... by @theBar

44 min listen

@theBar Trailer: Welcome to The Chicago Bar Association’s @theBar, a podcast where young and young-ish lawyers have interesting and unscripted conversations with their guests about legal news, events, topics, stories and whatever else strikes our fancy. The guests... by @theBar

2 min listen

The George Floyd Edition: EXCLUSIVE: In their first long-format interview discussing the George Floyd case, Benjamin Crump and Antonio Romanucci, the attorneys representing Floyd’s estate, speak with host Jonathan Amarilio and co-host Martin Gould about the fateful events of... by @theBar

52 min listen

The Keep Calm and Lawyer On Edition: A Candid Discussion about Mental Health and Addiction in the Legal Profession: Lawyers tend to bury themselves in work and focus solely on getting through the day. The result is that lawyers all too often ignore their own well-being and carry a sense of ambivalence about the legal profession’s problems with mental health and... by @theBar

55 min listen

The Peaking Beneath the Blindfold Edition: This edition features Joel Cohen, a prominent New York white-collar criminal defense attorney and frequent contributor to The Hill, HuffPost, Slate, and the New York Law Journal, as he discusses his recent books Blindfolds Off: Judges on How They... by @theBar

42 min listen

The I’ll Be Dreaming About Donkeys Edition - an Interview with Judge Richard Posner (Ret.): In this edition, hosts Jon Amarilio and Carl Newman interview Retired Judge Richard Posner of the Seventh Circuit United States Court of Appeals – one of the preeminent legal minds of 20th century. Posner opens up about his unexpected recent... by @theBar

58 min listen

The Chocolate Covered Edition: Our guest Valerie Beck proves that a legal career can be just like a box of chocolates—you never know what you’re going to get. Valerie graduated from Harvard Law School and practiced in “Big Law” before leaving her legal practice to become a... by @theBar

48 min listen

The Tech Evangelist Preaches Edition: A Conversation with Legal Tech Journalist Niki Black: In this edition, co-hosts Jonathan Amarilio and Nykoel Kahn chat with Nicole “Niki” Black about the legal profession’s reluctance to embrace technology and why lawyers must become more tech proficient or risk being outpaced in our rapidly... by @theBar

49 min listen

The Civility in Uncivil Times Edition: From presidential politics to internet trolls, our society seems to be more uncivil now than ever before. Lawyers, in particular, struggle with incivility in the profession and get a bad rap in the eyes of the public. What can we do to turn things... by @theBar

47 min listen

The Amanda Knox Again Edition: An Interview with the Defense Team: Amanda Knox, the American college student charged with killing her British roommate while studying abroad in Italy, spent four years in jail before her murder conviction was overturned. Was the media's portrayal of the murderous "Foxy Knoxy" accurate... by @theBar

49 min listen

The Killer Clown Edition: The Prosecution of John Wayne Gacy: American serial killer and rapist, John Wayne Gacy, Jr., became notorious for the mass murder of at least 33 teenage boys and young men in the late 1970s. December 2018 marked the 40th anniversary of the discovery of the mass grave beneath his home,... by @theBar

50 min listen

The Illinois Attorney General Election Edition, Part II: Erika Harold: In this special, two-part edition of @theBar, host Jon Amarilio sits down with the Democratic and Republican candidates in the race for Illinois Attorney General: Kwame Raoul and Erika Harold. Rather than a search for politicized sound bites, these... by @theBar

37 min listen

The Illinois Attorney General Election Edition, Part I: Kwame Raoul: In this special, two-part edition of @theBar, host Jon Amarilio sits down with the Democratic and Republican candidates in the race for Illinois Attorney General: Kwame Raoul and Erika Harold. Rather than a search for politicized sound bites, these... by @theBar

43 min listen

The Brexit Brouhaha Edition: What’s all the brouhaha about Brexit? In this episode, host Jonathan Amarilio and Andrew Walker, Queen’s Counsel and the 2018 Chair of the Bar of England and Wales, break it down for us with a rousing discussion about practice of law across the... by @theBar

34 min listen

The Criminal Courts Adapt to COVID-19 Edition: How the Pandemic Is Impacting the Rights of the Accused: In the second of our series of COVID-19 related podcasts, our hosts Jonathan Amarilio and Chastidy Burns speak with Amy Campanelli, the Public Defender of Cook County, about the constitutional issues being raised and the impact on the rights of the... by @theBar

44 min listen

The Chief Justices Edition: In this edition, co-hosts Jonathan Amarilio and Trisha Rich are joined by Dan Cotter, lawyer, historian, and author of “The Chief Justices: The Seventeen Men of the Center Seat, Their Courts and Their Times,” to discuss the history of the handful... by @theBar

47 min listen

The Overcoming Loneliness Edition: In the first of our series of COVID-19 related podcasts, our hosts Jonathan Amarilio and Jennifer Byrne speak with J.W. Freiberg, social psychologist, lawyer, and author of the forthcoming book, “,” about the chronic loneliness problem in our... by @theBar

50 min listen

The Killer Clown Edition: The Prosecution of John Wayne Gacy (Rebroadcast): Disclaimer: This episode was originally aired on February 6, 2019. American serial killer and rapist, John Wayne Gacy, Jr., became notorious for the mass murder of at least 33 teenage boys and young men in the late 1970s. December 2018 marked the 40th... by @theBar

51 min listen

The Chicago Mafia Edition: Former Federal Prosecutor Markus Funk discusses the trial that put a hit on the Chicago Outfit: Markus Funk joins to discuss the US government's 2005 indictment of the Chicago mafia. by @theBar

81 min listen

The Future of the Profession Crossfire Edition: In this edition, co-hosts Jon Amarilio and Jeff Moskowitz are joined by Bob Glaves and Jessica Bednarz from The Chicago Bar Foundation for a lively crossfire about the future of the legal profession and attorney regulation. Bob and Jess argue that the... by @theBar

50 min listen

The Murder of Innocence Edition: A Look Back on the Laurie Dann School Shooting with Eric Zorn: On May 20, 1988, Laurie Dann, a babysitter with a history of disturbing behavior and deteriorating psychological health, shot 6 children in a second-grade classroom in Winnetka, Illinois, killing one and severely wounding the others. The hostage... by @theBar

55 min listen

The Angel of Death Row Edition: In this edition, co-hosts Jonathan Amarilio and Nykoel Kahn are joined by renowned death penalty defense lawyer, author, speaker, professor and former Dean of the Valparaiso University Law School, Andrea Lyon, for a discussion about the politics,... by @theBar

46 min listen

Discover this podcast and so much more

Not Your Average Wellness Podcast for Lawyers

Not Your Average Wellness Podcast for Lawyers

Description

Titles in the series (75)

More Episodes from @theBar

Related podcast episodes