Represent More

What happens when the world's biggest fast-food chain hands its menu prices to an algorithm? And who pays when Big Tech needs more power, more water, and more land to keep the AI arms race going? This week, Ryan and Shireen look at two sides of the same problem: powerful companies using AI to take more from ordinary people, and pushing the costs onto communities that never got a say. They sta...

Welcome to Represent More, with Ryan and Shireen Clarkson of Clarkson Law Firm. This week, Ryan is back from speaking at NYU's global class actions conference, where a panel meant to cover data privacy quickly turned into a conversation about AI. Shireen opens the episode with a hard question: if we could delete AI and go back to a world without it, would we? The answer leads into a closer lo...

Welcome to Represent More, hosted by Ryan Clarkson and Shireen Clarkson, founding partners of Clarkson, a national public interest law firm. This week is all tech. Ryan and Shireen open with two case updates: the claims period for the $250 million Apple false advertising settlement opens Monday, September 21; and the newly filed consolidated complaint in the Meta AI glasses litigation (where Ryan...

Welcome to Represent More , brought to you by We Are Them Media. Ryan and Shireen are back in the Malibu studio (with a very special behind-the-scenes guest) for a two-part episode on what happens when technology sells certainty it can't deliver. First, Shireen walks through Clarkson's newly filed class action against Oura, the maker of the wildly popular smart ring. The lawsuit alleges...

Welcome to Represent More, the podcast about power — who has it, who doesn't, and what happens when accountability disappears. In this episode, Ryan and Shireen Clarkson sit down with Bahar Sodaify, Clarkson's first associate and first homegrown partner, who now leads the firm's food fraud practice. Bahar traces a direct line from her childhood in a Persian family in Beverly Hills —...

Welcome to Represent More , a production of We Are Them Media, hosted by Ryan Clarkson and Shireen Clarkson. Two people look at the same product at the same time — and pay two different prices. That's surveillance pricing, and in this episode, Ryan and Shireen break down how companies quietly use your location, browsing habits, and purchase history to decide how much you should pay. They dig...

Welcome to Represent More , a production of We Are Them Media, hosted by Ryan and Shireen Clarkson. This week, Ryan and Shireen welcome Tracey Cowan, who leads Clarkson's fertility negligence and sexual assault practices. From a childhood spent moving school districts with a superintendent dad who preached sticking up for the little guy, to the Tisch School of the Arts, to a research lab at N...

Welcome to Represent More, a production of We Are Them Media. In this milestone tenth episode, hosts Ryan and Shireen Clarkson dive into a wide-ranging discussion spanning artificial intelligence, a major Supreme Court ruling, and the state of American democracy heading into the midterms. AI in higher education : Universities are pushing students to learn AI tools while simultaneously issuing fals...

Welcome to Represent More, produced by We Are Them Media. In Episode 9, Ryan Clarkson turns the mic around — and his co-host, Shireen Clarkson, becomes the guest. Who is Shireen, where did she come from, and what shaped her into one of the country's leading consumer advocates? In this episode: Growing up Persian-American in the Bay Area — navigating dual identity, feeling like an outsider in...

Welcome to Represent More , a production of We Are Them Media. This week, Ryan and Shireen are back in the studio fresh off a big win — a $250 million settlement against Apple in what may be the largest false advertising settlement in history. The case centers on "AI washing": Apple's alleged failure to deliver on the artificial intelligence features it used to sell its iPhone 15 an...

Welcome to Represent More, a production of We Are Them Media. In Episode 7, co-host Shireen Clarkson turns the tables and puts Ryan Clarkson in the hot seat — tracing the arc of his life from a big Midwestern family to the courtroom, and asking the questions that reveal what really drives one of the country's leading consumer and public interest litigators. In this episode: Ryan's upbrin...

Welcome to Represent More, brought to you by We Are Them Media. In Episode 6, Ryan and Shireen dig into two stories about what happens when companies make promises they never intend to keep — and then blame you for believing them. This week: Panelli v. Target — A Ninth Circuit Win for Consumers: Target sold bedsheets labeled as "800 thread count." Testing revealed the actual count was 28...

Welcome to Represent More, produced by We Are Them Media. In Episode 5, Ryan and Shireen sit down with Glenn Danas, partner at Clarkson and chair of the firm's Appellate and Employment Litigation practice groups, for a wide-ranging conversation about what it means to fight for everyday people from inside the legal system. Glenn's path from Big Law to public interest litigation — and why...

Welcome to Represent More, brought to you by We Are Them Media. In Episode 4, Ryan and Shireen dig into the wave of social media addiction lawsuits making their way through the courts — and what two landmark verdicts this week tell us about where this fight is headed. What a Los Angeles bellwether jury found when it ruled YouTube and Meta liable for negligence and failure to warn Why a $375 millio...

Welcome back to Represent More, a podcast from We Are Them Media. In Episode 3, hosts Ryan Clarkson and Shireen Clarkson break down a week packed with major legal developments — including a brand new lawsuit that's already making waves in the tech world and beyond. Fresh off a weekend in Cabo, Ryan and Shireen get into it, covering: The Meta AI glasses lawsuit: why Clarkson filed a false adve...

Welcome back to Represent More, a podcast from We Are Them Media. In Episode 2, hosts Ryan Clarkson and Shireen Clarkson dive into two of the most consequential — and underreported — legal battlegrounds of our time: the fight over who actually owns the content that built the AI revolution, and the slow-moving public health crisis hiding in your water bottle, your food containers, and your bloodstr...

Episode 1: Privatized Profits, Socialized Harms — AI, Social Media, ICE & the Fight for Accountability Welcome to the very first episode of Represent More , a podcast from We Are Them Media. Hosts Ryan Clarkson and Shireen Clarkson — married partners and founders of one of the nation's leading public interest law firms — pull back the curtain on the world of consumer protection, class act...