The Legal Geeks

Review of Star Trek Lower Decks Much Ado About Boimler. Send us Fan Mail Support the show No part of this recording should be considered legal advice. Follow us on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, YouTube, and TikTok @TheLegalGeeks

Join us for analysis of the Star Trek Lower Decks episode Veritas! Send us Fan Mail Support the show No part of this recording should be considered legal advice. Follow us on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, YouTube, and TikTok @TheLegalGeeks

Review of Lower Decks "Terminal Provocations," recorded live on Get Vokl.  Send us Fan Mail Support the show No part of this recording should be considered legal advice. Follow us on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, YouTube, and TikTok @TheLegalGeeks

Legal analysis of the Star Trek Lower Decks episode "The Moist Ship." Send us Fan Mail Support the show No part of this recording should be considered legal advice. Follow us on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, YouTube, and TikTok @TheLegalGeeks

There is a lot to discuss over the laws of attraction in Star Trek. Send us Fan Mail Support the show No part of this recording should be considered legal advice. Follow us on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, YouTube, and TikTok @TheLegalGeeks

Join The Legal Geeks for analysis of the Lower Decks episode Temporal Edict. Send us Fan Mail Support the show No part of this recording should be considered legal advice. Follow us on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, YouTube, and TikTok @TheLegalGeeks

The Boys is off to a whale of a good time in season 2. Attorneys Josh Gilliland and Megan Hitchcock discuss the Battery and Employment Discrimination Based on a Disability of a Super-Hero, Extortion of S&M Supes, Murder of Government Officers, whether Homelander has any parental rights, hate crimes, the Marine Mammal Protection Act, and the case against Vought.  Send us Fan Mail Support the sh...

In Requiem for William Gilliland.   Send us Fan Mail Support the show No part of this recording should be considered legal advice. Follow us on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, YouTube, and TikTok @TheLegalGeeks

Nothing says 1950s monster movies like a nuclear submarine fighting a giant octopus in San Francisco. This classic Ray Harryhausen film is packed to the gills with legal issues. Join Christine Peek and Josh Gilliland ask they discuss whether the Navy could draft [the fictional] Dr. Leslie Joyce, whether Commander Mathews could be subject to a harassment claim, and the admissibility of cephalopod-s...

Can Darth Vader murder Imperial officers for poor job performance? And what can Vader teach us about contract modification? Join our brave band of lawyers from The Legal Geeks as they take on war crimes on Hoth, whether Luke had a duty to rescue his friends from the Empire, the legality of dumping trash in space. Featuring Steve Chu (Assistant US Attorney), Bethany Bengfort (Durie Tangri), Nari El...

Bounty hunting is a complicated profession. That is why lawyers geeked out over all of the legal issues in the first season of The Mandalorian. Can bounty hunters use lethal force? What is the enforceability of an oral contract made during a shoot out? Is it murder to shoot a droid or destruction of property? Find out with Joshua Gilliland, Megan Hitchcock, Thomas Harper, and Gabby Martin. Send us...

We love Star Trek Lower Decks. Join Josh Gilliland, Steve Chu, and Nari Ely for in-depth analysis of the first two episodes of Lower Decks, "Second Contact" and "Envoys." This episode covers Recklessness with a Bat’leth, legality of personal vs for profit use of holodecks, liability for domestic animals, bribery, drunk flying, and diplomatic incidents.       Send us Fan Mail Su...

Recorded for #ComicConatHome! The full panel with extra content!  It's all out lawyers attack! What can Kaiju movies teach us about shelter in place orders? Are parents financially responsible for kids who create a giant napping monster with cosmic rays? What are the First Amendment lessons from Mothra? Are common carriers such as trains, planes, and ships responsible for protecting passenger...

Every adventure has its beginning. Steve Chu sat down with Judge Carol Najera to discuss with Josh Gilliland how The Legal Geeks were formed and our first appearance at San Diego Comic Con. Josh shared a brief history of the first Comic Con appearance in 2015 and highlights through the years.  Send us Fan Mail Support the show No part of this recording should be considered legal advice. Follow us...

We’re on a Mission from God….to review the legal issues in the 1980 classic The Blues Brothers. From reckless driving to fraud, The Blues Brothers is a high speed chase of unlawful acts with an amazing soundtrack. Tune in with Jessica Mederson and Joshua Gilliland as they cue up their legal analysis.  Send us Fan Mail Support the show No part of this recording should be considered legal advice. Fo...

The Ultra Q episode "Tokyo Ice Age," is a wild story with plane crashes, child safety, and fighter pilot turned drunk jewel thief. Nari Ely and Josh Gilliland put on their cold weather gear for in-depth legal analysis of this time when cars did not have seatbelts and the idea of a nuclear reactor in Antarctica can be a plot point that no one worries about.   Send us Fan Mail Support the...

Amity Island has more than a shark problem....it has legal liability. Joshua Gilliland is joined by his friends Steve Chu and Kathy Steinman to discuss the municipal liability in the 1975 classic JAWS in honor of the film's 45 anniversary. Was Mayor Vaughn right to keep the beaches open? Was the medical examiner pressured by the mayor to change to cause of death for the first shark attack vic...

Why does an entrepreneur think he can take people from an island, shoot those in his way, and then declare those six inch tall twin women are his property to perform in a live musical show? Just what is his liability when a giant angry moth attacks to rescue the enslaved twin women? Attorneys Joshua Gilliland and Nari Ely explore these issues and more from the classic Mothra.  Send us Fan Mail Sup...

We say goodbye to The Clone Wars with our review of Victory and Death . Join Josh Gilliland , Thomas Harper , and Stephen Tollafield for one last mission with Ahsoka Tano and Captain Rex, as they discuss treason, lawful demotions, desertion, pseudocide, and the duty to bury.   Send us Fan Mail Support the show No part of this recording should be considered legal advice. Follow us on Facebook, Inst...

Josh Gilliland and Nari Ely review the conclusion to the Heisei Gamera trilogy, Gamera 1999: Revenge of Iris! Did Ms. Asakura kidnap Ayana from the hospital? Could Aynana be prosecuted for the deaths in her village? Could she qualify for the insanity defense? Join Josh and Nari as they discuss these issues and more.  Send us Fan Mail Support the show No part of this recording should be considered...

This Star Wars Day we celebrate the 40th Anniversary of The Empire Strikes Back. We ask three judges what "Empire" means to them and for their analysis of a legal issue in the film. Our judicial interviews include:  Circuit Judge John Owens, 9th Circuit Court of Appeals; New York Judge Matthew Sciarrino, Acting Justice Supreme Court at Kings County Supreme Court; and Los Angeles County S...

Just how do you remove a traitorous leader from office who has perpetrated a massive fraud upon the galaxy to justify a war that has eroded civil liberties?  We can tell you, it is not to confront that leader with lightsabers in what looks like a military coup d'etat.  Join Josh Gilliland , Thomas Harper , and Stephen Tollafield as they analyze the pentuntalemt episode of The Clone Wars, “Sha...

The Review of the Gamera Trilogy continues with Gamera 2: Attack of Legion! Would common carriers need Kaiju evasion plans? Plus our continued discussion of Article 9 of the Japanese Constitution. Join Nari Ely and Josh Gilliland for their discussion of Gamera.  Send us Fan Mail Support the show No part of this recording should be considered legal advice. Follow us on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter,...

Our legal review of the Siege of Mandalore continues with The Phantom Apprentice! What are the legal risks for Clone Troopers in combating Maul’s forces? Was Almec’s custodial interrogation proper? Do Maul’s followers meet the legal definition of “Gang”? Join  Josh Gilliland , Thomas Harper , and Stephen Tollafield as they confront these issues and more.  Send us Fan Mail Support the show No part...

False surrenders. Military invasions. Civilian advisors. Josh Gilliland , Thomas Harper , and Stephen Tollafield  confront the issues of Perfidy at Yerbana, whether the invasion of Mandalore to capture Maul was similar to capturing Manuel Noriega, the Bailment of Ahsoka’s Lightsabers, and more, in our review The Clone Wars episode “Old Friends Not Forgotten.”  Send us Fan Mail Support the show No...