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An infrequent podcast series about the American legal system, brought to you by Andy, Michael, Tarik, Tim, and Nestor. ALAB aims to tell engaging stories about lawyers, legal cases, legal issues, or the legal profession more generally, with a focus on the outrageous, excessive, and/or absurd.

All Lawyers Are Bad


    • Mar 8, 2025 LATEST EPISODE
    • monthly NEW EPISODES
    • 1h 17m AVG DURATION
    • 35 EPISODES

    4.8 from 763 ratings Listeners of ALAB Series that love the show mention: alab, tarik, interstitial music, legal podcast, julius, legal analysis, lawyers, intern, good things, andy, release, good podcast, michael, fine, twitter, five stars, smart, funny, educational, nice.


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    The ALAB Series podcast is a fascinating and entertaining exploration of the legal profession and the intricacies of the law. Hosted by three insightful lawyers, this podcast delves into various legal topics, providing listeners with a unique perspective on how law is practiced and how the courts operate. With each episode, listeners can expect to learn something new while being thoroughly entertained.

    One of the best aspects of The ALAB Series podcast is its ability to make complex legal concepts accessible to a wide audience. The hosts have a talent for breaking down intricate legal matters in a way that is easy to understand, even for those without a background in law. This makes the podcast enjoyable and educational for listeners who are curious about the legal world but may not have prior knowledge or experience in the field.

    Additionally, The ALAB Series podcast stands out due to its engaging and entertaining format. The hosts bring humor and wit to their discussions, making it an enjoyable listen from start to finish. They provide insightful commentary on various cases, filings, and lawyer performances, creating an immersive listening experience that keeps audiences hooked.

    While there are many positive aspects to this podcast, one potential drawback is that episodes are released at irregular intervals. As a result, fans may have to wait extended periods of time between episodes, which can be frustrating for those eagerly anticipating new content. However, this sporadic release schedule also adds an element of excitement when new episodes do drop.

    In conclusion, The ALAB Series podcast is a must-listen for anyone interested in learning about law and how it interacts with society. With its engaging format and accessible approach to discussing legal topics, this podcast stands out as an entertaining and educational resource. While fans may wish for more consistent release dates, the quality of the content makes up for any wait time. Overall, The ALAB Series podcast provides an insightful look into the world of law while keeping listeners thoroughly entertained along the way.



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    Latest episodes from ALAB Series

    Episode 31: DOJ and DOGE

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 8, 2025 80:33


    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 - https://bsky.app/profile/wyattprivilege.bsky.social Charles - https://bsky.app/profile/ugarles.bsky.social All music from https://bsky.app/profile/gloomfather.bsky.social. Listen to his music at https://orlandogloom.bandcamp.com/ Sound engineering by Snxwyfish. Listen to his music at https://snxwyfish.bandcamp.com/.

    Episode 30: Do Not Sue Us

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 15, 2025 76:50


    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.

    The Alex Jones Miniseries 4: Because They Are True

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 29, 2024 56:30


    In the fourth installment of the Alex Jones Miniseries, 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?"

    The Alex Jones Miniseries 3: They're Not Just Curious

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 19, 2024 58:00


    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.

    Alex Jones Miniseries 2: Some Kind of Art Project

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 11, 2024 32:24


    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. Voiceover work by Libby Kasch twitter.com/DasDing_Dong Music by David Shaw twitter.com/gloomfather https://orlandogloom.bandcamp.com/album/circular-season Art by Travis Bye twitter.com/maskthemovie

    Episode 29: Mic ... Dicta?

    Play Episode Listen Later May 19, 2024 56:22


    Andy, Charles, Tim and Tarik kick off a spate of piping hot new episodes with a zesty discussion about frosty iced creams and the frozen legal wasteland America's Mayor now calls home. Enjoy!

    The Alex Jones Miniseries 1: A Great, Dark Wickedness

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 24, 2022 90:00


    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. All Music by David Shaw https://twitter.com/gloomfather https://orlandogloom.bandcamp.com/album/circular-season For more information, join our friends over at Knowledge Fight www.knowledgefight.com.

    Episode 28: Something Given Has No Value

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 22, 2022 92:00


    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.

    Episode 27: COACH!

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 2, 2022 101:00


    Finally released from their months-long imprisonment for contempt of court, Andy and Tarik face down their most dangerous foe yet: Edward "Coach" Weinhaus.

    Episode 26: That Colossal Wreck

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 30, 2021 88:29


    Andy, Charles, Tarik, and Tim explore the hilarious meltdown of the Ozy Media empire, and discover a cautionary tale about corporate governance.

    Episode 25: Release the Crackpots

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 1, 2021 74:27


    Michael, Tim, Tarik, and newest ALAB-er Charles discuss the expansive sanctions order issued by a Michigan court against the intellectual architects of the so-called "Kraken" lawsuits that sought to invalidate the official results of the 2020 US Presidential election.

    Episode 24: The Scapegoat (Part Two)

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 5, 2021 89:59


    In the second and final part of their review of the U.S. government's unprecedented persecution of the Holy Land Foundation, Andy, Tarik and Tim -- again joined by podcast friend Rhiannon of fivefourpod.com -- analyze the two criminal trials that led to virtual life sentences for most of HLF's principals.

    Episode 23: The Scapegoat (Part One)

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 7, 2021 68:28


    In the wake of the 9/11 attacks, a scrambling Bush administration -- using tools gifted it by the Clinton administration's triangulated response to the Oklahoma City bombing -- was looking to seem tough on terror. It set its sight on the Holy Land Foundation, then America's largest Muslim charity. Andy and Tim, joined by our good friend Rhiannon of fivefourpod.com, chronicle the first of several brutal moves that would eventually topple the charity and land several of its leaders in prison.

    Episode 22: ALAB at the Movies - Michael Clayton

    Play Episode Listen Later May 4, 2021 90:00


    Andy, Michael, Tarik, and Tim reflect on the 2007 Oscar-nominated film Michael Clayton. While the movie has been hailed as a masterwork of the legal thriller genre, how true to life is its portrait of the evil corporate lawyer?

    Episode 21: The Racism's Baked Right In

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 8, 2021 90:00


    Andy, Michael, Tim, and Tarik discuss the use of "race norming" and related statistical shenanigans being used in courts today -- most famously in the NFL's concussion class action settlement -- to disadvantage women and people of color, a facially indefensible practice that somehow goes virtually unchallenged.

    Episode 20: Let's Lawyer Our Way Out

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 24, 2021 74:59


    In a companion piece to their episode on the plot to assassinate the governor of Michigan, Andy, Tarik, and Tim arrive three weeks late with their ill-informed, and in places ill-considered, takes on the January 6, 2021 Capitol riot and its fallout.

    Episode 19: Gerontocracy

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 28, 2020 90:00


    Andy, Tarik, and Tim are joined by guest Leo to discuss the crisis of aging, Alzheimer's, and dementia on the state and federal bench, an issue looming larger at all levels of government, and for which the judiciary is entirely and perhaps uniquely unprepared.

    Episode 18: These Things I See and More

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 9, 2020 84:30


    With the death of Ruth Bader Ginsburg and the ascension of Amy Coney Barrett, a 6-3 right-wing majority appears locked in at the Supreme Court potentially for decades. To comfort grieving progressives, Andy, Tarik, and Tim take you on a mind journey to an alternate Earth where Hillary won and a plucky Dartmouth lad named Neal Katyal achieved his greatest dream: Supreme Court Justice Neal Katyal.

    Episode 17: Liberate Michigan!

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 17, 2020 78:59


    In their jumbo 17th episode, Andy, Tarik, and Tim review the disturbing case of the Wolverine Watchmen and their arrest for the planned kidnapping and/or arrest of Michigan governor Gretchen Whitmer. They review the details of the case and then ponder the larger issues, including whether the plotters’ stated goals of founding a new society based on the Bill of Rights passes Constitutional muster, and whether under OLC precedent it’s okay to drone strike the persons responsible for radicalizing these men.

    Episode 16: The Bully (Part Two)

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 28, 2020 55:40


    In the second part of their study of the greatest lawyer to ever live, Alan Dershowitz, Andy, Tarik, and Tim delve deeper into the master's central art: the smear campaign. His scorched earth tactics and relentless smear jobs spare no one's reputation, perhaps not even his own.

    Episode 15: The Bully (Part One)

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 21, 2020 61:22


    In what is worst in the human soul can be found the most powerful tools of a lawyer's toolkit. Thus do Andy, Tarik, and Tim begin their studies at the feet of the Greatest Lawyer of All Time: Harvard law professor Alan Dershowitz. Part one examines the free speech warrior's years-long and ultimately successful campaign to destroy an academic who dared to publicly embarrass him.

    Episode 14: Epstein's Bank

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 13, 2020 73:00


    Andy, Michael, Tarik, and Tim teach you how to run an effective Anti-Money Laundering operation, by exploring all the myriad ways that Deutsche Bank failed to do so, breaking the rules again and again in its stunning relationship with pedophile financier Jeffrey Epstein.

    Episode 13: There Will Be Knots

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 3, 2020 76:05


    Michael, Tarik, and Tim explore the "Omegaverse" and find, among its other natural treasures, a nefarious tale of a plundering capitalist hell-bent on using the derricks of the law and courts to extract this magical land's value, to the exclusion of the communities that have tilled its soil for years.

    Episode 12: Lawyer Brain, Pt. 4 - A Different Kind of Epstein Brain

    Play Episode Listen Later May 10, 2020 66:00


    Andy, Tarik, and Tim discuss NYU law professor Richard Epstein's one-man crusade to defeat COVID-19 using the powers of logic and debate, and the frightening things the resulting debacle says about the American legal academy.

    Episode 11: Under Siege 2: Dark Territory

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 11, 2020 59:54


    Back in the innocent days of Episode 7, Andy, Michael, and Tarik thought that US economic sanctions policy had reached its apex of stupidity. But COVID-19, as it has with so many things, shows them that no, things can always get stupider. A lot stupider. Join them as they explore the "might makes right" underpinnings of international law from the American perspective.

    Episode 10: Hard R

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 30, 2020 81:35


    The struggling BDS movement under legislative assault. The First Amendment increasingly used as a cynical deregulatory tool for big business. What's a legal scholar obsessed with free speech to do? That's right: drop the Hard R. Join Andy, Tarik, and Tim as they examine the current state of free speech in America.

    Episode 9: Mike's Charnel-House for Children

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 3, 2020 85:30


    Sure, presidential candidate Mike Bloomberg's apologies for his "stop and frisk" policies ring hollow on their face. But they're even worse when placed in the context of the systemic brutality of New York's street-to-Rikers Island pipeline. Andy, Tarik, and Tim walk through the morass of hard-fought litigation Bloomberg waged to defend that pipeline

    Episode 8: Lawyer Brain, Pt. 3 - The Counterclerk

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 6, 2020 94:50


    Andy, Michael, and Tarik marvel at the spectacular rise, dizzying fall, and curious redemption of Ian Samuel, a legal yarn humming with powerful energies.

    Episode 7: The Modern-Day Siege

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 20, 2020 82:34


    Andy, Michael, and Tarik look at United States economic sanctions laws, and in particular the decades-long embargoes imposed on Cuba and Iran.

    Episode 6: Lawyer Brain, Pt. 2 - The Sandpit of the Soul

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 23, 2019 90:30


    Andy, Michael, and Tarik look at the Office of Legal Counsel, the elite unit within the US Department of Justice where the most elite legal minds in the country go to exchange their very souls for the promise of a life of ease and riches.

    Episode 5: Weeb Wars, Pt. 2

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 28, 2019 102:54


    Weeb Wars concludes with a massive double episode - Tarik, forced to flee his home after being doxed by Law Twitter, joins Andy and Michael remote from an undisclosed location to finish their review of Vic Mignona's dismissed grudge lawsuit and where it goes from here. Audio engineering courtesy Aaron Oppenheim, find him on Twitter at https://twitter.com/gib_gab

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    Episode 4: Weeb Wars, Pt. 1

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 7, 2019 54:26


    Andy, Michael, and Tarik play on the astroturf that is one of the more ill-considered lawsuits any ostensible lawyer has ever pushed a "client" to file: Vic Mignona's doomed lawsuit against the #metoo movement. (Part 1 of 2)

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    Episode 3: Faketoshi - The Perfect Client

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 9, 2019 87:17


    The perfect crime. The perfect criminal. The Perfect Client. Join us as Dr. Craig "Faketoshi" Wright's overweening self regard and cavalier disregard for truth careens headlong into a brick wall and he learns a costly lesson: that he is decidedly NOT the smartest man in the courtroom. Original intro theme courtesy Calming Chamber. Follow him on Twitter at https://twitter.com/gloomfather and on Bandcamp at https://orlandogloom.bandcamp.com

    Episode 2: Lawyer Brain, Pt. 1 - Be Like Brett

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 30, 2019 86:28


    Do you want to go to law school? Do you have a terminal case of Lawyer Brain? Andy, Michael, and Tarik describe the most optimal route to catching this debilitating affliction.

    Episode 1: Old Dirty Bastards

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 16, 2019 66:21


    Tarik, Andy and Michael discuss Giuffre vs. Maxwell, the defamation case at the eye of the Jeffrey Epstein media storm.

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