Georgetown Law Professor Jonah Perlin, host of “How I Lawyer Podcast!” interviews lawyers from across the profession about what they do, why they do it, and how they do it well. In today’s episode Professor Perlin speaks with Christine E. Webber, who is a leading plaintiff-side class-action civil rights and employment attorney at Cohen Milstein. In this role, she represents victims of discrimination and wage and hour violations in class and collective actions.

In their podcast conversation they discuss Christine’s path to law which began by lobbying for more rights for girls in her 3rd-grade classroom, the differences between changing the law through policy and through litigation, the importance of seeing both the big picture and the narrow details in plaintiff-side class action work, how she prepares for depositions (in her words, it is like putting a puzzle together without having the picture on the box) and the importance of both planning and flexibility in that process, why she loves working with statistical experts who are so important to her cases, how “winning” differs as a plaintiff-side class action lawyer, the skills that make newer lawyers stand out in her experience (research, details, preparation), why her decision to take a risk early on and jump at an uncertain opportunity made the rest of her career possible, and the various paths to the kind of work that she does.

Christine represents clients in some of the largest, groundbreaking discrimination and Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) class and collective actions in the United States. She has been recognized with numerous of awards for her work and has served as a leader in a number of employment-law related organizations. Christine started her career as a law clerk to Judge Will on the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois and as a Fellow at the Lawyer’s Committee for Civil Rights.

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“What does a foreign corporation do if it’s activities are threatened by a local conflict? One option is call in the army? Western oil companies have done that in places like Nigeria, Columbia, and elsewhere. But, when those local troops Injure or kill civilians, who bears the blame? This Is the central question in an upcoming trial in U.S. federal court. It pits local villagers against the globes biggest energy company.

ExxonMobil Called it “The Jewel in the Company’s Crown,” A site in Aceh, Indonesia that in 1999 was extracting lots of liquid gas. So much that, for a while, ExxonMobil was the most profitable company on earth. But, that lucrative site was sitting in a conflict zone. . . . Back in 1999, there was a fierce local rebellion. Separatists were demanding a cut of that Exxon gas money. They started attacking the sites. So the corporation paid Indonesian troops to protect its crown jewel. Cohen Milstein’s Agnieszka Fryszman discusses the Plaintiffs’ allegations of the ExxonMobil-Villagers of Aceh, Indonesia Litigation, a civil lawsuit, that spans 20 years before the U.S. District of Columbia and is about to go to trial, as early as this spring.

Tune in. The ExxonMobil-Villagers of Aceh, Indonesia Litigation story is a part of “Biden considers NATO troop reinforcement amid Russia-Ukraine standoff,” and starts at 7:58.

On January 4, 2021, Laura H. Posner, a partner in the Securities Litigation & Investor Protection and Ethics & Fiduciary Counseling practice groups, appeared on the Business Scholarship Podcast as part of its symposium on “Financial and Corporate Regulation in the Biden Administration.” Ms. Posner appeared on the symposium’s second episode, a panel discussion titled “Investor Protection & Corporate Finance.” She was joined by the Cato Institute’s Jennifer Schulp and University of Nebraska College of Law’s James Fallows Tierney.

The Business Scholarship Podcast, hosted by Stanford Law School Lecturer Andrew Jennings, features interdisciplinary conversations focusing on new work in business research.

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Securities litigators take center stage in the #MeToo movement.

You don’t always think of securities litigators taking a key role in the fight against sexual harassment, but in the wake of #MeToo, that’s exactly what’s happened. Shareholder derivative lawsuits have sprung up as a response to revelations of sexual misconduct by executives or prominent employees as a way to try to hold companies accountable.

In this episode of The Jabot, Above the Law’s Kathryn Rubino speaks with Molly J. Bowen and Julie Goldsmith Reiser of Cohen Milstein about their representation of Alphabet shareholders in a case over the company’s handing of sexual harassment claims that led to a $310 million settlement that’s been hailed as precedent-setting.

The Jabot podcast is an offshoot of the Above the Law brand focused on the challenges women, people of color, LGBTQIA, and other diverse populations face in the legal industry.

During the podcast, Mr. Leopold discusses some of his most groundbreaking litigation, including Chipps v. Humana, a Managed Care Abuse case that is one of the first of its kind in the country and has been listed as one of the most influential lawsuits to mitigate corruption in the healthcare industry. He also discusses his involvement in the Takata airbag cases and his discovery that has been used by plaintiff attorneys across the county.

Mr. Leopold also shares details about some personal life lessons he’s learned, including overcoming a childhood disability and how that has taught him to always have a goal to strive forward.

The Titans of Trial podcast, sponsored by the Florida Justice Association Research and Education Foundation, features Florida’s legendary trial attorneys revealing their keys to success – in law practice and in personal life – in their own words. Titans of Trial shares the personal stories of the men and women who’ve made a demonstrated difference to the practice of trial law in Florida.

Andrew Friedman, co-chair of Cohen Milstein’s Consumer Protection practice and co-lead counsel in the Marriott data breach class-action suit, joins Aaron Freiwald, host of the weekly podcast Good Law | Bad Law, to discuss the Marriott case as well as other massive data breaches and the growing security concerns surrounding our personal information.

In today’s episode, Andrew and Aaron address the issues of hacking and all the ways in which our personal data, like passwords, credit card information, our social security numbers, etc., are vulnerable. Andrew explains how customers’ private information can be exposed, specifically in regards to big companies, discussing his involvement in the Marriott Hotel litigation as co-lead counsel – an instance where hundreds of millions of hotel guests’ personal data was hacked, exposing customers’ most sensitive information, such as passport details.

An interesting and incredibly important discussion, listen in as Andrew and Aaron talk about the dangers of sharing your personal data as well as what customers are doing to be better informed and the steps you can take to help protect yourself.