The American Bar Association’s ABA Journal and the Legal Talk Network have just launched a series of “Legal Rebels Podcasts,” to feature women and men who are “remaking the legal profession.” Writes ABAJ managing editor Molly McDonough, “It will highlight pioneers who are changing the way law is practiced and setting standards that will guide the profession in the future.”

The podcasts launched Tuesday with the first four episodes, “featuring a new segment of the ABA Journal’s Legal Rebels project,” she wrote. “Legal Rebels Trailblazers will feature those who were innovating and remaking their corners of the profession well before the Journal launched the Legal Rebels project in 2009.”

The Legal Rebels hosts include two Chicago-based legal affairs writers for the ABA Journal: Stephanie Francis Ward, who also hosts the Asked and Answered  podcast and Victor Li, who previously worked at ALM’s Law Technology News and The American Lawyer. The third host is Terry Carter, a senior writer for the ABA Journal, based in Washington, D.C.

Legal Talk Network, lead by CEO Adam Camras, covers a wide range of legal topics and experts, ranging from Above the Law’s “Thinking Like a Lawyer,”  (Elie Mystal & Joe Patrice); special reports from conference floors;  “Lawyer 2 Lawyer” (Robert Ambrogi & J. Craig Williams); “ABA Law Student Podcast;” “Kennedy-Mighell Report,” (Dennis Kennedy and Tom Mighell); among may others.

The first four podcasts feature names quite familiar to our CodeX community:

• Sharon Nelson, president of Sensei Enterprises: “Tech fails, too, says Sensei’s Sharon Nelson.”
• John Suh, CEO at LegalZoom: “John Suh sees LegalZoom’s job as fixing a ‘failed’ legal system.”
• Ernie Svenson, New Orleans lawyer (aka Ernie the Attorney): “Don’t fear technology, Ernie Svenson urges; it’s here; it’s good; do it.”
•Monica Bay, CodeX Fellow, “Technology is breathtakingly positive, says lawyer and writer Monica Bay.”
See also http://bit.ly/1Sz4gof.

Both Nelson and Bay are hosts at Legal Talk Network: Nelson and John Simek: “Digital Detectives,” Nelson and Jim Calloway: “The Digital Edge,” Robert Ambrogi & Bay: “Law Technology Now.”

See also, ABA Journal’s “The Question of the Week: What are some tech tools that have changed your law practice?” by Sarah Mui, assistant managing editor (web). An excerpt: “‘You can’t be afraid’ of tech tools, says Monica Bay, a freelance writer and a fellow at Stanford’s Center for Legal Informatics in a Legal Rebels Trailblazer podcast. ‘They’re going to make things easier, faster and more transparent.'”

Monica Bay is a CodeX Fellow and a member of the California Bar. She also is a freelance journalist (including columnist at Above The Law) and an analyst/consultant.  Email: mbay@codex.stanford.edu. Twitter: @MonicaBay @StanfordCodeX.

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