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Bloomberg Law

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Expert analysis on legal issues and cases in the news. 

Host June Grasso speaks with prominent attorneys and scholars on the legal stories making news and shaping the world.

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Episodes

BREAKING NEWS: Mitch McConnell Stepping Down

Republican Mitch McConnell will step down as his party’s leader in the Senate after the November election. Here is instant reaction and analysis from the Bloomberg Balance of Power podcast, hosted by Joe Mathieu and Kailey Leinz. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Feb 28, 202427 min

Trump's Legal Road Ahead & Can SCOTUS Be Redefined?

Dave Aronberg, Palm Beach County State Attorney, discusses Donald Trump’s upcoming trials and staggering civil verdicts. Constitutional law expert David Super, a professor at Georgetown Law, discusses the views of the Supreme Court by the public and other courts around the country. June Grasso hosts. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Feb 28, 202437 min

Social Media Free Speech Clash & Supermarket Deal Challenged

Eric Goldman, a professor at Santa Clara University School of Law and co-director of the High Tech Law Institute, discusses Supreme Court oral arguments over Florida and Texas laws regulating how social media companies police content on the internet. Jennifer Rie, Bloomberg Intelligence senior litigation analyst, discusses the FTC suing to block Kroger’s acquisition of Albertsons. June Grasso hosts. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information....

Feb 27, 202435 min

IVF Threatened by Unprecedented Alabama Decision

Healthcare attorney Harry Nelson, a partner at Nelson Hardiman, discusses the repercussions of the Alabama Supreme Court ruling that frozen embryos are children. Immigration expert Leon Fresco, a partner at Holland & Knight, discusses President Biden possibly taking executive action to control the border. Labor and employment law expert, Rebecca Bernhard, a partner at Dorsey & Whitney, discusses steps employers should take before large scale layoffs. June Grasso hosts. See omnystudio.com...

Feb 23, 202441 min

SCOTUS and School Diversity & Mega Merger Mania

Audrey Anderson, head of the higher education practice at Bass Berry & Sims, discusses the Supreme Court turning down an appeal over a school’s use of socio-economic factors to gain greater diversity in the student body. Antitrust expert Harry First, a professor at NYU Law School, discusses three mega deals that face antitrust scrutiny. June Grasso hosts. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Feb 22, 202441 min

Trump War Chest for Legal Fees Likely Drained By Summer

Bill Allison, Bloomberg Campaign Finance Reporter, discusses how Donald Trump will likely drain his war chest for legal fees this summer. Caroline Grace Brothers, an attorney with the Institute for Justice, discusses an upcoming Supreme Court oral arguments in a case over accountability for a retaliatory arrest. June Grasso hosts. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Feb 21, 202434 min

Weekend Law: Trump Fined $364 Million & First Trial Date

June Grasso discusses the top legal stories of the week with the experts. Bloomberg legal reporter Patricia Hurtado on Trump’s $364 million fine. Robert Mintz of McCarter & English on Trump’s first criminal trial date being set. Palm Beach County State Attorney Dave Aronberg on Trump asking the Supreme Court to put his DC criminal trial on hold. And Frank Bowman, a professor at the University of Missouri Law School, on the impeachment of Alejandro Mayorkas. See omnystudio.com/listener for pr...

Feb 17, 202438 min

Trump Trial Date Set & Georgia DA Testifies

Robert Mintz, a partner at McCarter & English, discusses a New York trial judge setting the date for the first criminal trial of Donald Trump. David Voreacos, Bloomberg legal reporter, and Michael Zeldin, former federal prosecutor, discuss Fulton County DA Fani Willis testifying at a hearing to disqualify her from the Georgia election interference case. June Grasso hosts. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Feb 16, 202434 min

Mayorkas Impeachment & Oldest Judge Loses Case

Frank Bowman, a professor at the University of Missouri Law School, discusses the impeachment of the Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas. Arthur Hellman, a professor at the University of Pittsburgh Law School, discusses 96-year-old Judge Pauline Newman’s failed efforts to get reinstated. June Grasso hosts. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Feb 14, 202439 min

Trump Wants Trial Delay & Justices Flip on Standing

Dave Aronberg, Palm Beach County State Attorney, discusses Donald Trump asking the Supreme Court to keep on hold his criminal trial for trying to overturn the 2020 election while he appeals a ruling that rejected his bid for immunity from prosecution. Kimberly Strawbridge Robinson, Bloomberg Law Supreme Court Reporter, discusses how the abortion pill case highlights Supreme Court justices flipping on standing. June Grasso hosts. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information....

Feb 14, 202437 min

Biden Document's Report & UBS Whistleblower

Bradley Moss, a partner at Mark Zaid, discusses Special Counsel Robert Hur’s report on the classified documents found at President Joe Biden’s house. Jon-George Aras, a partner at Scarincci Hollenbeck, and Sean McKessy, a partner at Phillips & Cohen, discuss a Supreme Court decision against UBS that lowers the standards for whistleblowers. June Grasso hosts. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Feb 13, 202438 min

Supreme Court Likely to Reject Effort to Kick Trump Off Ballot

Derek Muller, a professor at Notre Dame Law School, and Harold Krent, a professor at the Chicago-Kent College of Law, discuss the Supreme Court oral arguments on Colorado’s removal of Trump from the ballot. Ekow Yankah, a professor at the University of Michigan Law School, discusses the repercussions from the historic verdict convicting a Michigan mother of involuntary manslaughter for a mass shooting by her son. June Grasso hosts. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information....

Feb 09, 202437 min

For the First Time Mother of School Gunman Found Guilty

Frank Vandervort, a professor at the University of Michigan Law School, discusses a Michigan mother being convicted of involuntary manslaughter in the first verdict holding the parent of a school shooter accountable for murder on campus. Albert Soler, a partner of Scarinci Hollenbeck, discusses an NLRB ruling paving the way for Dartmouth basketball players to vote to unionize. June Grasso hosts. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information....

Feb 08, 202436 min

Trump Does Not Have Presidential Immunity

Former federal prosecutor Jessica Roth, a professor at the Cardozo School of Law, discusses the DC Circuit Court rejecting Donald Trump’s claims of presidential immunity from federal prosecution. Jessica Levinson, a professor at Loyola Law School, discusses a possible new path for reasserting abortion rights. June Grasso hosts. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Feb 07, 202436 min

West Point Race Conscious Admissions & Border Bill

Audrey Anderson, head of the higher education practice at Bass Berry & Sims, discusses the Supreme Court allowing West Point to use race as a factor in admissions, for now. Leon Fresco, a partner at Holland & Knight and former head of the Office of Immigration Litigation at the Justice Department, discusses the Senate bill on the border. June Grasso hosts. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Feb 06, 202437 min

Impeaching Mayorkas & Multibillion Dollar Bayer Verdicts

Michael Gerhardt, a professor at the University of North Carolina Law School and an expert on impeachment, discusses the House advancing the impeachment of the Homeland Security Secretary. Elizabeth Burch, a professor at the University of Georgia Law School and an expert on mass tort litigation, discusses the multibillion dollar verdicts against Bayer. Janet Lorin, Bloomberg higher education and finance reporter, discusses the investigations Harvard University is facing. June Grasso hosts. See o...

Feb 01, 202437 min

Mother on Trial for Son's Actions & Musk Pay Voided

Criminal defense attorney Richard Kaplan of Kaplan Marino, discusses the trial of Jennifer Crumbley for the mass school shooting carried out by her son. Business law expert Eric Talley, a professor at Columbia Law School, discusses a judge voiding Elon Musk’s Tesla pay package. June Grasso hosts. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Feb 01, 202436 min

Trump Appeals & AI Lawsuits

Bloomberg legal reporter Erik Larson discusses Donald Trump’s appeals. Xiyin Tang, a professor at UCLA Law School, discusses the lawsuit against a purportedly AI generated comedy special of the late comedian George Carlin. June Grasso hosts. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Jan 31, 202436 min

Will Trump Pay $83.3 MM Verdict & Activist Investors Sued

Former federal prosecutor Robert Mintz, a partner at McCarter & English, discusses the path ahead before advice columnist E. Jean Carroll, can collect the $83.3 million verdict awarded against Donald Trump. Bruce Goldfarb, President & CEO of Okapi Partners, discusses ExxonMobil taking a novel path in trying to block activist shareholders. June Grasso hosts. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Jan 30, 202437 min

Weekend Law: Trump Verdict, Union Fight & Alec Baldwin

June Grasso talks to the experts about the top legal stories of the week. Bloomberg legal reporter Patricia Hurtado discusses a jury ordering Donald Trump to pay $83.3 million to columnist E. Jean Carroll for defaming her. Labor law expert Kate Andrias, a professor at Columbia Law School, discusses the Supreme Court agreeing to hear a case over Starbucks firing union workers. Joshua Kastenberg, a professor at the University of New Mexico Law School, discusses the new involuntary manslaughter cha...

Jan 27, 202438 min

Trump Takes the Stand & SEC Policy Under Fire

Bloomberg Legal Reporter Patricia Hurtado, discusses Donald Trump’s short testimony in the defamation trial of advice columnist of E. Jean Carroll. Anthony Sabino, a Professor in the Department of Law at The Peter J. Tobin College of Business at St. John’s University, discusses a challenge to the SEC’s policy of requiring defendant’s to keep silent after settlements. June Grasso hosts. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Jan 26, 202437 min

SCOTUS Takes Death Penalty Case & Crypto Face-off

John Blume, Director of the Cornell Death Penalty Project, discusses the Supreme Court granting review to an Oklahoma inmate on death row in an unusual case. James Park, securities law expert and professor at UCLA Law School, discusses the faceoff between the SEC and Binance in court. June Grasso hosts. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Jan 25, 202437 min

SCOTUS Takes On Union Fight & Alec Baldwin Charged

Labor law expert Kate Andrias, a professor at Columbia Law School, discusses the Supreme Court agreeing to hear a case over Starbucks firing union workers. Joshua Kastenberg, a professor at the University of New Mexico Law School and a former prosecutor, discusses the new involuntary manslaughter charges against actor Alec Baldwin. June Grasso hosts. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Jan 23, 202436 min

Biden Administration Wins Over Texas at Supreme Court

Immigration law expert Leon Fresco, a partner at Holland & Knight, discusses a divided Supreme Court siding with the Biden administration in its fight with Texas over razor wire at the border. Bloomberg legal reporter David Voreacos, discusses Fulton County prosecutor Fani Willis being drawn into the divorce case of her top prosecutor in the case against Donald Trump. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Jan 23, 202437 min

Crypto Showdown & Elon Musk Ultimatum

Securities law expert Robert Heim, a partner at Tarter Krinsky & Drogin, discusses the SEC’s lawsuit against Coinbase. Business law expert Eric Talley, a professor at Columbia Law School, discusses Elon Musk’s ultimatum to the Tesla board. Domenique Camacho Moran, a partner in the labor and employment practice at Farrell Fritz, discusses steps employers should take to avoid politics in the workplace. June Grasso hosts. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information....

Jan 19, 202437 min

SCOTUS May Cut Agency Power & JetBlue Spirit Deal Nixed

Constitutional law Professor Harold Krent, a professor at the Chicago-Kent College of Law, discusses the Supreme Court weighing overturning a 40-year old precedent that will weaken the power of federal agencies. Jennifer Rie, Bloomberg Intelligence Senior Litigation Analyst, discusses a judge blocking the Jet Blue-Spirit Airways $3.8 billion deal. June Grasso hosts. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Jan 18, 202432 min
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