Videos

Oct. 10 (Bloomberg) — Will Shortz, New York Times crossword puzzle editor and founder of the annual American Crossword Puzzle Tournament, talks about his transition from law school to a career in puzzles. Shortz, speaking with Spencer Mazyck in a Bloomberg Law video, also discusses how he became the subject of the 2006 documentary film [...]

Oct. 9 (Bloomberg) — Robert Bauer, general counsel to the President’s re-election committee, Obama for America and Democratic National Committee, talks with Bloomberg Law’s Spencer Mazyck about recent changes to voting laws across the country. Bauer, partner at Perkins Coie LLP, also discusses the Obama campaign’s efforts to coordinate and deploy a legion of lawyers [...]

What will happen when the copyright on Mickey Mouse is about to run out? How long should patents last on software? University of Virginia School of Law professor Christopher Sprigman, co-author of “The Knockoff Economy” and contributor to the Freakonomics blog, addresses how he feels intellectual property law can best spur innovation.

What do the West Coast offense, the Macintosh computer, and fashion designs all have in common? University of Virginia School of Law professor Christopher Sprigman, co-author of “The Knockoff Economy,” explains how many creative industries thrive without copyright or patent protection.

With all the stories about the lousy lawyer job market, it may come as a surprise that there are legal jobs for recent graduates that are going begging. But to earn a paycheck, new lawyers may need to make like the doctor in the 1990s TV series Northern Exposure, and head to the nation’s small [...]

Sept. 4 (Bloomberg) — Marilyn Chinitz, partner at Blank Rome LLP, talks with Bloomberg Law’s Spencer Mazyck about representing Tom Cruise in his divorce from Katie Holmes and motivating factors for quick settlements. (Source: Bloomberg)

Rankings are an incredible draw in U.S. culture. They sell magazines and we click on websites because of them. Whether it’s college football, the world’s richest person, or top party schools, we like to see things classified and ordered. So, it may be a surprise that one set of rankings has arguably caused harm to [...]

Aug. 23 (Bloomberg) — Michele Coleman Mayes, former general counsel for Allstate Insurance Company and co-author of “Courageous Counsel: Conversations with Women General Counsel in the Fortune 500,” talks about her book and what it takes for women to become Fortune 500 general counsels. Mayes, speaking with Spencer Mazyck in a Bloomberg Law video, also [...]

(Bloomberg Law) — Support is building for a new law that would make online shopping more expensive. Online retailers do not collect state and local sales taxes unless they have a physical presence in the buyer’s state. And, even though 45 states require it, most consumers do not pay when they file their tax return. [...]

Aug. 20 (Bloomberg) — Jack Trachtenberg, counsel at Sutherland Asbill & Brennan LLP, talks with Bloomberg Law’s Spencer Mazyck about the application of the False Claims Act in state taxation and the growing number of state-tax related whistleblower lawsuits. (Source: Bloomberg)

Aug. 16 (Bloomberg) — Robert Lipstein, a partner at Crowell & Moring LLP, talks with Bloomberg Law’s Spencer Mazyck about in-house counsels’ growing demand for alternative fee arrangements or value-based billing options from their outside law firms. (Source: Bloomberg)

Do law reviews matter anymore? Their circulations continue to plunge. The august Harvard Law Review, which Barack Obama once led, has gone from 11,000 subscribers in the early 1960s to just 1,900 today. Legal commentator Walter Olson sounded the battle cry in his recent post: “Abolish the Law Reviews!,” arguing that most exist so students [...]

Aug. 8 (Bloomberg) — Sometimes the Olympic movement’s anti-doping authorities get it wrong, Howard Jacobs tells Bloomberg Law’s Spencer Mazyck. A Los Angeles solo practitioner, Jacobs represented two U.S. Olympians in arbitration proceedings, getting both LaShawn Merritt and Jessica Hardy into the 2012 London games. Both had unintentionally run afoul of the banned substances list, [...]

Aug. 6 (Bloomberg) — Bloomberg Law’s Acing Legal Job Interviews looks at how to prepare, including: How can I research potential employers? What should I bring to the interview? What questions can I expect? Should I prepare canned answers? What kind of writing samples should I submit? Featured experts in this episode, produced by Spencer [...]

Aug. 6 (Bloomberg) — Bloomberg Law’s Acing Legal Job Interviews looks at how to avoid disasters, including: What should I wear? How can my body language sabotage the interview? Is it ever OK to lie to an interviewer? What’s the worst interviewing story you’ve ever heard? Featured experts in this episode, produced by Spencer Mazyck, [...]

Aug. 2 (Bloomberg Law) — Trevor Timm from the Electronic Frontier Foundation talks with Bloomberg Law’s Lee Pacchia about the recent controversy surrounding the temporary suspension of journalist Guy Adams’ twitter account. Adams was initially banned for distributing the corporate email address of an NBC executive on the social media platform, but Twitter has since [...]

July 25 (Bloomberg Law) — While economic indicators continue to worsen, US bankruptcy law still prohibits individuals from getting rid of their student debt except in the rarest of circumstances. U.S.Representative Steve Cohen, Democrat from Tennessee, talks with Bloomberg Law’s Lee Pacchia about a bill he introduced in Congress that aims to alleviate the current [...]

Bloomberg Law dropped in on Manhattan’s Javits Center on July 24, 2012 to ask dozens of people taking New York’s bar exam how they prepared and what it was like to take the test alongside thousands of would-be lawyers. We wish each of them the best of luck.

July 19 (Bloomberg Law) — Almost 24% of homes with a mortgage in the United States are underwater, meaning that more is owed on the loan than the property is currently worth. A new company known as Mortgage Resolution Partners is proposing to work with municipal governments to use eminent domain to seize underwater mortgage [...]

July 18 (Bloomberg) — Law professor at Chicago-Kent College of Law and author Lori Andrews talks about her book, “I Know Who You Are and I Saw What You Did: Social Networks and the Death of Privacy,” and the dangers of sharing information over the Internet. Andrews, speaking with Spencer Mazyck in a Bloomberg Law [...]