{"podcast":{"title":"Original Jurisdiction","slug":"original-jurisdiction-5705421","podcast_index_feed_id":5705421,"rss_url":"https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/229933.rss","website_url":"https://davidlat.substack.com/podcast","image_url":"https://substackcdn.com/feed/podcast/229933/d7f661b8339c1eabb59278bf4755c445.jpg","author":"David Lat","episode_count":100,"summary":"News, views, and colorful commentary about law and the legal profession.","last_synced_at":"2026-06-25T08:20:02.970316+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/original-jurisdiction-5705421"},"episode":{"title":"Winning For Workers Before A Conservative Court: Jennifer Bennett","slug":"winning-for-workers-before-a-conservative-court-jennifer-bennett","published_at":"2026-04-08T19:12:08+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/original-jurisdiction-5705421/winning-for-workers-before-a-conservative-court-jennifer-bennett","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/original-jurisdiction-5705421","url":"https://davidlat.substack.com/p/winning-for-workers-before-a-conservative","audio_url":"https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/193004803/7fd98357773112747736c01ef167194a.mp3","summary":"My latest guest is an acclaimed appellate and Supreme Court advocate, Jennifer Bennett of Gupta Wessler. To introduce her, I’m going to turn over the floor to a former podcast guest: Judge Vince Chhabria (N.D. Cal.), for whom Bennett clerked. When I mentioned to Judge Chhabria that I was going to be interviewing Jennifer, he immediately moved into testimonial mode: \"Funny, I was going to email you to suggest that you interview her! She is truly one of one. She recently won her fourth Supreme Court case, GEO Group v. Menocal . Despite representing workers in all four of her cases (the first three on arbitration), she has won all four of them, and each one of them has been unanimous. In other words, this lawyer for working people has never lost a vote in her four cases on behalf of working people at the current Supreme Court! She also just argued her fifth case at the Court, Flowers Foods, Inc. v. Brock —the arbitration case about ‘last-mile’ drivers. It seems like she might win that one, too. Jenn was my very first law clerk—I refer to her as Chhabria Clerk Zero. For around three months, before the other law clerks started, it was just me and her in chambers, sifting through our new cases and figuring out how to handle them. Steve Berzon came to my informal swearing-in, I was lamenting not having immediate law clerk help, and he mentioned that this person who clerked for [Judges] Marsha [Berzon] and Jesse [Furman] had about six months to kill before starting a fellowship at Public Justice and might be interested. I was so lucky to have Jenn. Given how amazing she is and given her experience in Jesse’s chambers, she was able to get me up and running in a way that would have been impossible otherwise. She played a big role in teaching me how to be a good district judge.\"…","meta_description":"My latest guest is an acclaimed appellate and Supreme Court advocate, Jennifer Bennett of Gupta Wessler. To introduce her, I’m going to turn over the floo…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":2753,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/original-jurisdiction-5705421/episodes/winning-for-workers-before-a-conservative-court-jennifer-bennett/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/original-jurisdiction-5705421/winning-for-workers-before-a-conservative-court-jennifer-bennett.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}