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The Counsel

Zoom Lawyering

The Counsel

Vox Media Podcast Network

News, Politics

4.7861 Ratings

🗓️ 19 February 2021

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

In this episode of Third Degree, Elie Honig is joined by NYU law student Safeena Mecklai to discuss the impact of Trump’s acquittal on the next generation of lawyers, a Georgia District Attorney’s pending investigation into Trump’s efforts to overturn election results, and the challenges of lawyering over Zoom.    Join Elie every Friday on Third Degree for a conversation with a rotating slate of America’s most impressive law school students.  Elie’s analysis doesn’t end with Third Degree.Sign up to receive the CAFE Brief, a weekly newsletter featuring articles by Elie, a weekly roundup of politically charged legal news, and historical lookbacks that help inform our current political challenges: cafe.com/article/the-stay-tuned-newsletter/ Transcript, references and supplemental materials are available on the CAFE website: https://cafe.com/third-degree-podcast/zoom-lawyering/  Third Degree is produced by CAFE Studios.  Executive Producer: Tamara Sepper; Senior Editorial Producer: Adam Waller; Technical Director: David Tatasciore; Audio and Music Producer: Nat Weiner; Editorial Producers: Sam Ozer-Staton, Noa Azulai.  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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From Cafe, this is third degree.

0:36.9

I'm Ellie Honig.

0:45.1

Well, I am so happy today, everybody, because for the first time on third degree, I am not alone.

0:53.2

That's right, let me explain. This is our new format. This is how

0:56.6

things are going to work from here on now. So we're going to be doing three episodes per week.

1:00.6

Now, Monday and Wednesday will be what you're already used to. 10 minutes or less, it'll be me.

1:05.2

I'll break down interesting legal stories in the news. But on Fridays, we're going to go a bit deeper and a bit longer.

1:12.8

And most exciting, we're going to be joined. I'm going to be joined by one of our rotating

1:17.7

cast of co-hosts. Now, who are these folks? You're wondering? Well, here's what we've done.

1:22.9

We have said about on a nationwide search, and we have identified three of the brightest, most

1:29.9

interesting, up-and-coming law students in the country. These are your next generation of

1:36.0

legal superstars, and each week, one of our law student co-hosts will join me on Friday,

1:42.2

which I guess makes me the kind of old guy in this relationship,

1:45.9

or maybe I'll think of myself as like the semi-cool professor. And together we'll break down

1:50.7

the week in legal news and we'll talk about careers and I'll tell some old war stories,

1:55.1

which I always like to do. We'll just let it roll. So I am so pleased to introduce our first

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