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The top legal ethics headlines of 2021 and cybersecurity concerns as we head into 2022. Bloomberg Industry Group legal reporter Melissa Heelan and Veronica Glick, partner in Mayer Brown’s Washington DC office and a member of the firm’s National Security and Cybersecurity & Data Privacy practices, are guests. Hosted by Joe Shortsleeve. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Cyberattacks are set to continue into next year with ransomware threatening many businesses. Brandon Van Grack, partner and co-chair of Morrison & Foerster’s National Security and Global Risk + Crisis Management groups, talks about growing cybercrime threats. Andrew Schwartz, professor of law at University of Colorado, talks about the Denver Broncos and 'Rights of First Refusal.' Hosted by Joe...

A lawsuit filed in 2020 claims that Google tracks users even as they’re browsing in incognito mode, Now, Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai will have to face hours of questioning in a California court. Andrea Vittorio, Senior Reporter with the Bloomberg Industry Group, reports on that story. Kai H.E. Liekefett, a co-chair of Sidley Austin LLP’s Shareholder Activism and Corporate Defense practice and a par...

December marks twenty years since energy-trading giant Enron filed for bankruptcy. Ed Hirs of the University of Houston details the company's rise and malpractice. Leslie Caldwell, a partner with the law firm Latham & Watkins and who also led a team of investigators and prosecutors in the US Justice Department’s Enron Task Force, discusses investigating Enron. Hosted by Joe Shortsleeve. See om...

Former federal prosecutor Robert Mintz, a partner at McCarter & English, discusses the House holding former White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows in criminal contempt of Congress and whether the Justice Department will prosecute him. Former federal prosecutor Jimmy Gurule, a professor at Notre Dame Law School, discusses Washington D.C. suing the far right groups, the Proud Boys and the Oath...

Taylor Swift Can't 'Shake Off' Lawsuit (Podcast) Source: Bloomberg, 34:52 Intellectual property litigator Terence Ross, a partner at Katten Muchin Rosenman, discusses the case against pop star Taylor Swift where two songwriters claim that she ripped off some of the phrases in her hit song, "Shake It Off," Securities law expert John Coffee, a professor at Columbia Law School, discusses the Justice...

Elizabeth Sepper, a professor at the University of Texas Law School, discusses the Supreme Court leaving in force Texas' six-week abortion ban, allowing abortion providers to press only a narrow part of their challenge.  William Banks, a professor at Syracuse University College of Law, discusses the District of Columbia suing the Proud Boys and the Oath Keepers right-wing groups for allegedly cons...

Former federal prosecutor Jessica Roth, a professor at Cardozo Law School, discusses the prosecution's case against Ghislaine Maxwell at her sex-trafficking trial which included the testimony of four women who allege the British socialite lured them into abuse by Jeffrey Epstein. Richard Garnett, a professor at Notre Dame Law School, discusses the Supreme Court signaling in a Maine case that it is...

Lance Koonce, a partner at Klaris Law, discusses Miramax suing filmmaker Quentin Tarantino over the sale of NFTs from the cult classic "Pulp Fiction." Erik Larson, Bloomberg Legal Reporter, discusses Second Circuit arguments over former President Trump's efforts to scuttle a defamation lawsuit brought by a woman who claims Trump raped her two decades ago.  Leon Fresco, a partner at Holland & K...

Mary Ziegler, a professor at Florida State University School of Law, discusses whether the Supreme Court is likely to reverse Roe v. Wade, the landmark ruling on abortion rights. Harold Krent, a professor at the Chicago-Kent College of Law, discusses why the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals seemed skeptical about former President Trump's claim to executive privilege over documents subpoenaed by the H...

Joel Rosenblatt, Bloomberg Legal Reporter, discusses Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes taking the stand in her own defense. Jennifer Rie, Bloomberg Intelligence Senior Litigation Analyst, discusses the U.K. ordering Meta's Facebook to sell Giphy, the first time a major global regulator has weighed in against a Silicon Valley giant and ordered it to unwind a deal after completion. June Grasso hosts...

Greg Stohr, Bloomberg News Supreme Court Reporter, discusses the Supreme Court’s conservatives suggesting they are poised to roll back abortion rights and uphold Mississippi’s ban on abortion after 15 weeks of pregnancy. Robert Field, Professor of Law and Public Health at Drexel University, discusses the first court victory for opponents of the Biden administration's vaccine mandate for health-car...

Judge Jeffrey S. Sutton, Chief Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit, discusses his new book, "Who Decides?: States as Laboratories of Constitutional Experimentation." June Grasso hosts. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Patricia Hurtado, Bloomberg Legal Reporter, discusses the trial of Ghislaine Maxwell who is accused of luring underage girls for Jeffrey Epstein to sexually abuse them. Joel Rosenblatt, Bloomberg Legal Reporter, discusses the trial of Elizabeth Holmes, the founder of bloodtesting startup Theranos, who is facing charges of conspiracy and wire fraud. June Grasso hosts. See omnystudio.com/listener fo...

Former federal prosecutor Robert Mintz, a partner at McCarter & English, discusses former Trump campaign chairman Steve Bannon facing criminal contempt charges for ignoring subpoenas from the House committee investigating the U.S. Capitol riot. Tom Melsheimer, a partner at Winston & Strawn, discusses a judge striking down the Texas ban on school mask mandates and his representation of the...

Richard Garnett, a professor at Notre Dame Law School, discusses the Supreme Court justices grappling with the religious rights of death-row inmates in the execution chamber. Ahilan Arulanantham, Faculty Co-Director of the Center for Immigration Law and Policy at UCLA School of Law, discusses Supreme Court oral arguments where he represented three Muslim men who sued the FBI for spying on them. Ju...

Rachel Fiset, managing partner of Zweiback, Fiset & Coleman, discusses the potential criminal and civil legal actions from the deadly Travis Scott concert. Bryant Gardner, a partner at Winston & Strawn, discusses the legal fallout from the supply chain crisis. Shyam Balganesh, a professor at Columbia Law School, discusses Supreme Court arguments in which Unicolors claimed that the Ninth Ci...

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Antitrust expert Jennifer Rie, Bloomberg Intelligence Senior Litigation Analyst, discusses the Justice Department’s bid to block Penguin Random House’s proposed acquisition of rival Simon & Schuster, alleging it would allow just a few publishers to control the prices paid to authors. First Amendment expert Eugene Volokh, a professor at UCLA Law School, discusses Supreme Court arguments concern...

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Second Amendment law expert Adam Winkler, a professor at UCLA Law School, discusses the Supreme Court's conservative justices signaling that they are ready to strike down New York's gun control law and rule that most people have a right to carry a handgun outside the home. Mary Ziegler, a professor at Florida State University College of Law and author of "Abortion and the Law in America, A Legal H...

Constitutional law professor Leah Litman of the University of Michigan Law School, discusses the Supreme Court justices grappling with the power of the federal judiciary to block Texas’ ban on abortion, the most restrictive law in the country. Immigration law expert Leon Fresco, a partner at Holland & Knight, discusses a jury awarding more than $17 million in back pay to immigrants for work in...

Former federal prosecutor Elie Honig discusses the investigation into how a scene on the set of the movie "Rust" turned deadly. Intellectual property litigator Terence Ross, a partner at Katten Muchin Rosenman, discusses how paparazzi are suing celebrities who post photos of themselves on social media -- photos they don't own the rights to. June Grasso hosts. See omnystudio.com/listener for privac...

Securities law expert James Cox, a professor at Duke Law School, discusses Citadel Securities suing the Securities and Exchange Commission over a new kind of market order that has a 350-microsecond delay to blunt the advantage of high frequency traders. Jordan Rubin, Bloomberg Law Reporter, discusses the state of Oklahoma wanting a redo of the Supreme Court decision that gave American Indian tribe...