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Opening Arguments

Opening Arguments is a law show that helps you make sense of the news! Comedian Thomas Smith brings on legal analysts to help you understand not only current events, but also deeper legal concepts and areas! The typical schedule will be M-W-F with Monday being a deep-dive, Wednesday being Thomas Takes the Bar Exam and patron shoutouts, and Friday being a rapid response to legal issues in the news!

info_outline Adverse Possession Is 9/10ths of the Law 06/05/2025
info_outline 75% of Exonerated Women Were Convicted of Crimes That Didn't Even Happen (!) 06/03/2025
info_outline Courts Handed Trump Some Huge Losses This Week 05/30/2025
info_outline You're a...... CROOK Captain Hook 05/29/2025
info_outline The Battle Over Cop City 05/27/2025
info_outline A 'Pay What You Can' Law Practice? Prosecutors Say That Encourages Crime. 05/23/2025
info_outline Can a Priest Rat You Out? 05/22/2025
info_outline It Took Years, but Guatemala Held a Brutal Dictator Accountable. What Can We Learn? 05/20/2025
info_outline The Birthright Citizenship Case Is Actually Something Differently Terrible 05/16/2025
info_outline Getting Our Dramshop Act Together 05/15/2025
info_outline The Supreme Court Sucks. But at Least We Can Talk to Leah Litman About It! 05/13/2025
info_outline A Very Stablecoin Genius 05/09/2025
info_outline Several Very Good Court Thingies 05/02/2025
info_outline Passing the Joint Tenancy 05/01/2025
info_outline Trump's FBI Just Arrested a Judge 04/29/2025
info_outline Alito Fails to Understand a Kids' Book — and Other Fascist Mega-Fails of the Week! 04/25/2025
info_outline T3BE67: To Larse or to Burgle? 04/24/2025
info_outline Meet the Absolute Heroes Behind CourtListener.com 04/22/2025
info_outline Just When We Thought Big Law Could Not Be More Pathetic 04/19/2025
info_outline T3BE66: Drowning in Camera Repair Debt 04/17/2025
info_outline DHS Tries to Get Citizen To Self-Deport. The Story Went Viral. Turns Out SHE'S MATT'S LAW PARTNER! 04/15/2025
info_outline Republicans Might As Well Pass the "No Things We Don't Like" Act 04/11/2025
info_outline ICE Disappeared One of Matt's Clients 04/09/2025
info_outline The Karen Read Trial(s) 04/07/2025
info_outline Kafka, Esq. 04/04/2025
info_outline The HHS Massacre 04/02/2025
info_outline Rap on Trial - Young Thug Was Not the First and Won’t Be the Last 03/31/2025
info_outline Big Law Firm Paul Weiss Caved to Trump's Bogus Order in 4 Days. It Was Cowardly and Inexcusable. 03/28/2025
info_outline State Bar of California Fails the Bar Exam 03/26/2025
info_outline How One Lawsuit Targeting Trans Rights Could Undermine Disability Protections for Everyone 03/24/2025
 
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