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Conversations with Jim Zirin, a talk show designed to illuminate the news, features high-profile guests from the worlds of politics, law, business, foreign relations, national security, counterterrorism, media, lifestyles, literature, the arts, and the military. It is now available as a podcast on Apple Podcast and Spotify.
The series is hosted by Jim Zirin, a leading litigator and contributor to major publications including Forbes, The Hill, Daily Beast, the Nation, The Times of London, The Washington Post, Daily News, and Los Angeles Times. He is the author of three books: The Mother Court—Tales of Cases That Mattered in America’s Greatest Trial Court, Supremely Partisan—How Raw Politics Tips the Scales in the United States Supreme Court, and Plaintiff in Chief—A Portrait of Donald Trump in 3500 Lawsuits. Jim served as an Assistant United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York in the Criminal Division under the legendary Robert M. Morgenthau.
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Jan 13, 2023 | 26 min 35 sec
Must We Blame Israel on the Jews? -Walter Russell Mead
Leading foreign policy thinker Walter Russell Mead, author Of “The Arc of a Covenant–The United States, Israel, and The Fate of the Jewish People,” tells Jim that it is not just American Jewry in whom Israel has found strong support, but American Zionists of all stripes who understand that the entanglement between the Jewish people, the Jewish state and the United States dates back to the earliest moments of the American story.
Jan 10, 2023 | 26 min 46 sec
Can a Lawsuit Become a Trainwreck?-David Dorsen
Top-flight Washington lawyer David Dorsen represented hedge fund operator Michael Lauer for part of Lauer’s 14-year struggle to achieve justice from the SEC in a deeply flawed civil fraud action. At the end of the day, a jury cleared Lauer of all criminal charges, but when the dust settled, Lauer lost all of his money, and the alleged victims got nothing, while the lawyers and accountants reaped a lush harvest of fees.
Dec 22, 2022 | 27 min 30 sec
Must We Re-Think the Traditional Meaning of Marriage? -Edith Windsor, Robbie Kaplan (2012)
Lawfully married in 2007 to Thea Spyer, her companion of 40 years, Edith Windsor found herself the beneficiary of Ms Spyer’s estate but was denied the spousal deduction for federal estate taxes. She sued, claiming that the 1996 Defense of Marriage Act was unconstitutional. Edie and her lawyer Robbie Kaplan tell Jim Zirin that historic discrimination against gays warrants a “heightened scrutiny” of laws denying them equal benefits.
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