Bad News, Good Lawyers

In this episode of Bad News, Good Lawyers, host Tom Firestone is joined by former Supreme Court clerk and co-chair of our Appellate & Supreme Court Practice Keith Bradley, who provides an in-depth legal analysis of the Supreme Court’s recent decision in Learning Resources, Inc. v. Trump, more commonly known as the “IEEPA decision.” 

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In this episode of Bad News, Good Lawyers, New York Times contributing opinion writer and best-selling author Jeffrey Toobin discusses his latest book, The Pardon: The Politics of Presidential Mercy, with host Tom Firestone, head of our Government Investigations & White Collar Practice.

Jeffrey engages in a wide-ranging and deeply researched discussion around the evolution of the US presidential pardon – from President Ford’s pardon of Richard Nixon to President Trump’s current term – and his conclusions as to why presidential pardon power should be preserved even though it has often been abused for political purposes.

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In our latest episode of Bad News, Good Lawyers, host Tom Firestone, head of our Government Investigations & White Collar Practice, is joined by Benjamin Nathans, Alan Charles Kors Endowed Term Professor of History at the University of Pennsylvania.

They discuss Professor Nathans’ Pulitzer Prize-winning book, To the Success of Our Hopeless Cause: The Many Lives of the Soviet Dissident Movement, and explore the role of law in dictatorships, including the concept of “civil obedience” and how a dictatorship’s own laws can be used to combat it.

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In this opening episode of our Bad News, Good Lawyers podcast series, partner Tom Firestone, from our Government Investigations & White Collar Practice, speaks to Rob Zachariasiewicz (Zach) of Elicius Intelligence. Zach spent 22 years with the US Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), primarily with the Special Operations Division (SOD), where he developed and managed some of the DEA’s most significant and high-profile cases, including many related to Nicolás Maduro’s regime in Venezuela.

Join us for a fascinating discussion, where Zach, who is also a lawyer, shares his unique perspectives on the Maduro case.

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