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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 LEARY V. US (1969): Turn On, Tune In, and Drop Everything You Thought You Knew About Timothy Leary 08/04/2025
info_outline Entrenched Power Hates It When Actual Progressives Are in Office 08/01/2025
info_outline Alan Dershowitz tries to pull a literal "nothing to see here" on Epstein 07/31/2025
info_outline Chesa Boudin Grew up Visiting His Parents in Prison. He Later Became San Francisco DA. 07/29/2025
info_outline The Trump-Epstein Legal Breakdown You Didn't Know You Needed 07/25/2025
info_outline T3BE78: Following the Interpleader 07/24/2025
info_outline PORN LAW: When Your Kink Is Strict Scrutiny but the Court Only Goes Intermediate 07/22/2025
info_outline ICE Just... Decided Millions of People Are Ineligible for Bail. This Is Bad. Like, Really Bad. 07/18/2025
info_outline T3BE77: If a Chandelier Falls and You Aren’t There to See It, Did the Liability Even Happen? 07/17/2025
info_outline Let’s Talk Space Law! It’s Law, but From OUTER SPACE! 07/15/2025
info_outline What a Surprise, the Racist Bastards Want to Denaturalize Zohran Mamdani 07/11/2025
info_outline T3BE76: Accidental Evidence 07/10/2025
info_outline When You're So Bad At Your Job, You Make the Supreme Court Look Good By Comparison 07/08/2025
info_outline SIO484: Lawsuit Alleges Voting Irregularities in 2024. Is There Any There There? 07/01/2025
info_outline No Way, Bove 06/27/2025
info_outline T3BE75: Can I Interest You in a Lettuce Farm? 06/26/2025
info_outline How Do the Good Lawyers Not Burn Out? 06/24/2025
info_outline Clarence Thomas Is an Even Worse Doctor Than He Is a Judge 06/20/2025
info_outline I Like My Bar Exam Questions Like I Like My Coffee 06/19/2025
info_outline This Law Student Refused to Let Big Firms Get Away with Quiet Complicity 06/17/2025
info_outline Troops in LA; Abrego Garcia's Trumped Up Charges 06/13/2025
info_outline The Part of Collections Collector 06/12/2025
info_outline Federal Workers: Rise Up, Fight Back! 06/10/2025
info_outline Three Unanimous Supreme Court Decisions, and Why They Sound Bad But Aren't Really 06/06/2025
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
 
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