The California Appellate Law Podcast
The California Appellate Law Podcast
Latest Episodes
The Workhorse Justice: Ming Chin on Prolific Opinion Writing, DNA Evidence, and the Art of Mediation
Justice Ming Chin wrote more majority opinions in his first decade on the California Supreme Court than any colleague—then retired to discover that mediation feels a lot like his first judicial assignment in family law, where the goal was bring...
The End of Hallucinated Cases: Ross Guberman's RealityCheck Arrives
Legal writing authority Ross Guberman has been busy absorbing AI tools into his popular BriefCatch and now-related suite of writing tools. Ross returns to discuss how BriefCatch cousin app RealityCheck uses a traditional authority base plus AI ...
April Fool's Legal Myths: From "One Phone Call" to Dual-Citizenship
The law is riddled with things "everybody knows" that aren't actually true. In this April Fool's-themed episode, Tim Kowal and Jeff Lewis discuss several legal myths, half-truths, and courtroom fictions—from rules of evidence to constitutional ...
From BigLaw to Boutiques: David Lat on Trump, VanDyke, and the Art of Oral Argument
David Lat—founder of Above the Law and author and host of Original Jurisdiction blog and podcast—explains what these stories reveal about a legal profession navigating ideological warfare, economic disruption, and the enduring craft of persuasi...