An infrequent podcast series about the American legal system, brought to you by Andy, Charles, Tarik, and Tim. ALAB aims to tell engaging long-form stories about lawyers, legal cases, legal issues, or the legal profession more generally, with a focus on the outrageous, excessive, and absurd.
Andy, Charles and Tim discuss the sanctioning of UN Special Rapporteur on Palestine Francesca Albanese after her report on corporate complicity in Israel's devastating attack on Gaza, the meaning of free speech beyond the Constitution and how the Trump administration is forgetting the point of international diplomacy and the world that the UN grew out of.
Andy and Charles talk about the litigation over the blanket USAID contractual "pause" through the lens of Andy's former job as a federal civil trial attorney and how DOGE is probably wreaking havoc throughout the DOJ civil branches.
Andy, Tim and Charles take a look at the Jane Doe lawsuit for sexual assault against Diddy, and more importantly for this episode, Jay-Z. The litigation tactics of Jay-Z's attorney came under scrutiny both by the judge in the case and the pundits online. Crazy, or crazy like a fox? By the time we got this episode edited the case had been dropped by the plaintiff, so ... spoiler warning.
In the fourth installment of the Alex Jones Miniseres, Andy, Tim, Charles, and Tarik finish swimming in the muck and dry off in their mind palaces while imagining, “what if Alex Jones had mustered a competent defense?”
In the third installment of the Alex Jones Miniseries, Andy, Tim, Charles, and Tarik take their first dive into the muck being raked by, and in turn raking, Alex Jones.
In the second installment of the Alex Jones Miniseries, Andy, Tim, Charles, and Tarik discuss the horrific December 14, 2012 shooting at the Sandy Hook Elementary School and its immediate aftermath.
Andy, Charles, Tim and Tarik kick off a spate of piping hot new ALAB Series episodes with a zesty discussion about frosty iced creams and the frozen legal wasteland America's Mayor now calls home. Enjoy!
In the first installment of the Alex Jones Miniseries, Andy, Charles, and Tarik explore how Alex became Alex, and how the nation became a little Alex too.
In perhaps the cruelest of his many attention-seeking stunts, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis defies the will of Florida's citizens, who voted overwhelmingly to restore voting rights to their neighbors with prior felony convictions. Andy, Charles, Tim, and Tarik explore the derailing of a 150-year-long project to correct a lasting injustice.
Finally released from their months-long imprisonment for contempt of court, Andy and Tarik face down their most dangerous foe yet: Edward "Coach" Weinhaus.
