Business/Disrupted Podcast
1) Inside the District Attorney's Office and Criminal Justice Reform
In this episode, we look at the challenges of progressive criminal justice reform from the standpoint of the prosecutor, by looking at how the District Attorney's office functions. The ideals of ...Show More
2) The Unexpected Shackles of Binding Arbitration
If we think about arbitration at all, we think of it in terms of a dispute resolution mechanism written into large, complex contracts. We don't think of ordering a pizza online, streaming a movie...Show More
3) When Crazy, Libelous, Crazy Came to Bankruptcy
Our story is one with a lot of facets: the massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School; conspiracy theories bandied about for entertainment; the preternaturally unhinged and how they react to an equally ...Show More
4) The Shotgun Marriage of Bankruptcy & Mass Tort Cases (Podcast Edit)
Boy Scouts, Purdue Pharma, and now Johnson & Johnson - all are cases that are in bankruptcy because of thousands upon thousands of negligence cases; all are typical class actions; all are in bankruptc...Show More
5) Being G. Washington
On Presidents' Day 2022, we talk with the nation's foremost historical actor of George Washington about what it is to inhabit the character of America's first General of the Armies, fir...Show More
6) The Tricky Business of Diversity & Inclusion
There's big money in employment - companies invest significantly in finding, onboarding and training the best employees they can get - it's good business to make sure those employees feel we...Show More
7) The Business of the U.S. Senate and Voting Rights
The United States Senate has become the focus of a power struggle between, on the one hand, a minority resistant to challenge, and a bare majority seeking to respond to a watershed moment in history -...Show More
8) The High-RPM World of Auto Racing
They say that if you want to make a small fortune in auto racing, you have to start with a large fortune. Between politics, mechanical issues, human factors, and the unknown, it's tough for a per...Show More
9) Oxy is a Hell of a Drug
With the stroke of a pen, a U.S. District Court Judge overturned the confirmed bankruptcy plan of Purdue Pharma, placing everything up in the air. What's at stake: $4.3 billion from Purdue's...Show More
10) It's a Dog's Word - The Business of Service Dogs
Companion Dogs, Assistance Dogs, Seeing-Eye Dogs, Emotional Support Dogs - they seem the same to the uninitiated, but they're very different. We talk with two of the most respected leaders in the...Show More