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If a crisis has affected you or someone you know in the legal community, the State Bar of Michigan wants to help! Their newly implemented SOLACE Program offers support in the event of a catastrophic illness, accident, or event; and this help is available to all legal professionals and law students in Michigan. On Balance hosts JoAnn Hathaway and Molly Ranns welcome Bruce Courtade and Rob Mathis to discuss how this program operates and how Michigan’s legal community can learn more and get involved in the SOLACE network. Bruce Courtade is an attorney at Rhoades McKee and a former president of the State Bar of Michigan.  Robert Mathis is the pro bono service counsel for the State Bar of Michigan. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Lawyers are expected to go to great lengths to represent their client’s interests. But what is actually required of them and when does zealous advocacy go too far? Stacie Rosenzweig from Halling & Cayo joins us to talk about Rudy Giuliani’s suspension and what we can learn from it. Special thanks to our sponsor Nota. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Declaration of Independence famously states "that all men…are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights”. But do those or similar unalienable rights extend beyond people? According to groups like the Global Alliance for the Rights of Nature, our ecosystem - the trees, oceans, animals and mountains - are entitled to rights of their own. So was the Declaration of Independence too limited in its language? Does nature have its own “self-evident” rights? On Lawyer 2 Lawyer, host Craig Williams is joined by Lindsey Schromen-Wawrin, an attorney at Shearwater Law PLLC, to discuss what rights we have to access nature, whether there is a requirement for the government to preserve nature for us, and if we have any legal rights to force the preservation of other species. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Lab coach Ryan McKeen about the components of a business strategy and how to put one together to create a firm you’re proud of.  If today’s podcast resonates with you and you haven’t read The Small Firm Roadmap yet, get the first chapter right now for free! Thanks to Lawmatics, Postali, Rankings.io, and TextExpander for sponsoring this episode. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Cedar Point Nursery vs. Hassid is a Supreme Court case that determines if property owners can be forced to let union bosses into their businesses to negotiate with their employees against them? Ilya Shapiro from the CATO Institute returns to guide us through the analysis.  Special thanks to our sponsor Nota. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The SCOTUS Term is over and so is any remotely text-based interpretation of the Voting Rights Act. Justice Alito pulled off a smooth rewriting of the statute with nary a peep from his textualist colleagues. It looks like this is going to be our future for a while. And it's a future that will apparently include Justice Breyer who appears to have locked in to staying on the Court, all common sense aside. Speaking of common sense, how much money might you sacrifice to have work from home flexibility? For most of you out there, it's a lot. Special thanks to our sponsors, Lexicon and Nota. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

As the 50th anniversary of the Pentagon Papers case approached, First Amendment scholars Lee Bollinger and Geoffrey Stone knew they wanted to mark the occasion somehow. Much has changed since RAND Corporation employee Daniel Ellsberg decided spend weeks photocopying some 7,000 pages of a classified report on the war in Vietnam and sneaking them out via his briefcase to be published by the New York Times and the Washington Post. For one thing, since 2011, the complete report has been made available to the public by the National Archives. For another, it has become both easier to download and spirit away classified information, and easier to use digital trails to identify any leakers. In the digital age, should we still be using the Pentagon Papers case as precedent, and how should we approach modern examples of leakers like Edward Snowden, Chelsea Manning and Reality Winner? Bollinger and Stone gathered together about 30 experts in the fields of national security, journalism and academia to tackle the questions raised by 50 years of post-Pentagon Papers jurisprudence. The commission's report and essays from the various contributors were compiled into the book National Security, Leaks and Freedom of the Press: The Pentagon Papers Fifty Years On. In this episode of the Modern Law Library, Bollinger and Stone discuss their experience working on the project, the developments they found most surprising, and some of the best practices suggested by the commission. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Congressman Jamie Raskin joins Dave Scriven-Young to give us a behind-the-scenes tour of what a Presidential Impeachment trial looks like as they discuss the last efforts from the House of Representatives to impeach former President Donald J. Trump. Stay tuned for Darryl Wilson’s tips on artificial intelligence and the legal issues that may arise. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

John Gow and Craig Sylvester from expert service provider Jensen Hughes discuss how the latest technologies are impacting marine loss claims. Special thanks to our sponsor, AM Best Company, Best’s Insurance Professional Resources, including Qualified Member attorneys, adjusters and expert service providers.john Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Out-of-state Doctors are remote-treating patients in Arizona. But what are the limitations and will this actually be the future of medicine? Professor Katharine Van Tassel from Case Western Reserve University School of Law walks us through it. Special thanks to our sponsor Nota. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices