{"podcast":{"title":"Above the Law - Thinking Like a Lawyer","slug":"above-the-law-thinking-like-a-lawyer-872228","podcast_index_feed_id":872228,"rss_url":"https://feeds.megaphone.fm/LTN9584319601","website_url":"http://legaltalknetwork.com/podcasts/thinking-like-a-lawyer/","image_url":"https://megaphone.imgix.net/podcasts/b5f86bd4-cfa9-11eb-b18a-6f29b86adca3/image/Thinking-Like-A-Lawyer-Final.jpg?ixlib=rails-4.3.1&max-w=3000&max-h=3000&fit=crop&auto=format,compress","author":"Legal Talk Network","episode_count":480,"summary":"Thinking Like A Lawyer is a podcast featuring Above the Law's Joe Patrice, Kathryn Rubino, and Chris Williams. Each episode, the hosts will take a topic experienced and enjoyed by regular people, and shine it through the prism of a legal framework. This will either reveal an awesome rainbow of thought, or a disorienting kaleidoscope of issues. Either way, it should be fun.","last_synced_at":"2026-09-17T06:19:14.974948+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/above-the-law-thinking-like-a-lawyer-872228"},"episode":{"title":"Will We Never Learn Our Lesson About The Bar Exam?","slug":"will-we-never-learn-our-lesson-about-the-bar-exam","published_at":"2026-08-05T15:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/above-the-law-thinking-like-a-lawyer-872228/will-we-never-learn-our-lesson-about-the-bar-exam","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/above-the-law-thinking-like-a-lawyer-872228","url":"https://legaltalknetwork.com/podcasts/thinking-like-a-lawyer/2026/08/will-we-never-learn-our-lesson-about-the-bar-exam","audio_url":"https://traffic.megaphone.fm/LTN1973088506.mp3","summary":"And summer bonuses have arrived. ----- The profession yet again forced law school graduates to take a closed-book doctrinal memory test to earn the right to perform a job where answering questions from memory constitutes malpractice. And, yet again, the ritual came with a series of catastrophes and a fully canceled test. In Maryland, the test faced delays. Missouri's delays were even worse, reminding us that the NCBE doesn't guarantee a better exam than the much-maligned California experiment. And in Washington, they had to cancel the whole test. In happier news, summer bonuses came to Biglaw -- or at least some of Biglaw -- with Milbank announcing a special treat. Finally, Wachtell's kissgate scandal spilled over into Gibson Dunn's lateral hiring coup, and we're reminded that work-life balance is important.","meta_description":"And summer bonuses have arrived. ----- The profession yet again forced law school graduates to take a closed-book doctrinal memory test to earn the right…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":2092,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/above-the-law-thinking-like-a-lawyer-872228/episodes/will-we-never-learn-our-lesson-about-the-bar-exam/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/above-the-law-thinking-like-a-lawyer-872228/will-we-never-learn-our-lesson-about-the-bar-exam.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}