Podcasts

The International Institute for Conflict Prevention & Resolution (“CPR”) has a podcast series entitled, International Dispute Negotiation (“IDN”) which provides examples of the ways professionals from around the world handle dispute resolution. The series examines the risks inherent in disputes and offers insight into “…ways of accepting, mitigating, and managing those risks…whether through mediation, arbitration, [...]

Negotiating Tip of the Week – A weekly podcast on negotiation tactics and strategy by Dr. Josh Weiss, Associate Director of Harvard’s Global Negotiation Project. This podcast series has been running since 2005 and contains an invaluable collection of podcasts designed to help sharpen negotiation skills. While the podcasts are not intended for a non-native [...]

Litigation Podcast: Tips & Tactics for the Practicing Trial Lawyer – The Litigation Podcast by the American Bar Association’s Section of Litigation requires a high-level of English, but rewards the diligent listener with useful tips for all phases of litigation – from pretrial to appellate argument. The contents include articles written by litigators, judges and [...]

Legal Lad – This easy to follow podcast features a lawyer who claims that each approximately 5 minute podcast tells you “something about the law that you can use in your everyday life.” Recent episodes include explanations of the difference between illegal and unlawful and misdemeanor and felony.

This Week in Law (“TWiL”) – Denise Howell of the Bag and Baggage blawg discusses breaking issues in technology law including patents, copyrights, and more with the TWiL panel. The July 6th episode focuses on the new attorney rating service, Avvo and includes an easy to follow interview with Avvo CEO Mark Britton.

Litigation is War – West Legalworks’ new “Litigation is War” by Frederick L. Whitmer is based on the premise that litigation is simply the continuation of business carried out by other means. To Whitmer, a senior litigation partner in the New York office of the international law firm Thelen Reid Brown Raysman [...]

The OYEZ Project Podcasts – podcasts of U.S. Supreme Court arguments as well as concise and succinct case briefs. This is part of the OYEZ Project’s U.S. Supreme Court multimedia website, the objective of which is to make the work of the Supreme Court accessible to everyone through text, images, audio, and video. As such, [...]

The Law Report – ABC Radio National’s podcast of breaking legal stories across Australia and world-wide. The show’s hosts examine legal culture and analyze law reform, legal education, test cases, and miscarriages of justice. The language is clear and accessible.

The Legal Underground – Hosted by attorney Evan Schaeffer, this podcast is a trial lawyer’s informal and sometimes irreverent view of legal news and other law related subject matter. Mr. Schaeffer also publishes a weblog at www.legalunderground.com that links to all of his writings including his blog containing tips and [...]

Life of a Law Student – A combination blog and podcast that chronicles and shares the learning and experiences of law students from across the U.S. The level of English is fairly high, though the format and much of the language is informal.