Law

Each episode, we discuss things that are on students' minds related to careers and employability, labour market information, CVs, recruitment processes, and we chat to employers and alumni to find out what they're thinking about too.

Hello, I'm Tess Reid, career consultant here at Exeter University specialising in careers in law.

And here with me today is Nando Rodriguez, who's just finished his second year LLB Law here at Exeter University.

Nando leveraged the career mentor scheme to secure a vacation scheme place at Trowers & Hamlins Law Firm here in Exeter.

I wasn't even really sure what like a vacation scheme was.

I wasn't sure what I was looking for in a firm.

So with him, it was just, you know, really sort of like basic level, finding out what a lawyer does and why I'd want to do that as a job.

Great.

It's definitely interesting.

It's a little bit law related.

I wasn't sure.

Ultimately, I figured I might as well just do it in the Lotawful movies, but it itself is kind of like a standalone.

I was excited to watch this.

People suggested it.

And there is apparently, Matt, you think there's some law in this? Well, I got to tell you, turns out this is an accounting doffle movies because the accounting is so interesting because the whole thing, I'm sure people are familiar.

We'll get into it.

So I think the thing that could give people comfort on this is that the president doesn't run presidential elections.

There are 50 different state elections for which the eligibility to be on the ballot is a matter of state law as a general matter.

And so if you had a situation where the Republicans.

actually nominated donald trump to be their candidate in 2028 which i do not believe that they will but if they made that step and they said we're going to nominate you to be our candidate in 2028 then that doesn't mean that he's automatically on all these ballots you know what you would see is that in the deep red states they might put trump on the ballot california new york not going to put Trump on the ballot.

Now, to illustrate that, Americans do not realize that we were so close to an extraordinary constitutional crisis on January 6th.

We are one person away from an extraordinary constitutional crisis.

When Trump was making his election contest claims, he was appealing to things like the Electoral Count Act and other laws.

He was making bogus arguments.

You have health care law, then you have DME law.

There are health care attorneys out there who are smarter than I am.

If they get sucked into this DME Alice in Wonderland universe, they quickly get lost because the law as it pertains to DME is just strange.

What are providers worried about the most right now?

Providers who are the latest iteration of competitive bidding is limited to what are called soft goods.

I've got two children who are attorneys, and, you know, it's pretty dysfunctional.

But we have a lot of fun.

Our law firm, we've been around for about 30 years, Brown Fortunato.

[laughs] Instead we have, uh, Anne Lipton, who we haven't heard from yet, but we will shortly.

Uh, she's law professor at University of Colorado, who researches and teaches securities and business law.

Why don't you take over, uh, Anne?

Oh, and we also, we do have Matt Mascardi, the other co-founder of FreeFloat Analytics-

Yes

... um, coming to us from Connecticut.

Um, so as listeners who don't usually, uh, turn into Shareholder Primacy, me and Mike Levin are the co-hosts of, uh, of Shareholder Primacy, a podcast about activist investing, securities law, and all the ways the financial and legal worlds intersect and collide in real life.

Yeah, and it's also Proxy Countdown and Business Pants.

They actually, you know, a lot of the conversation about this is very unclear.

They're like, we were challenged by the law and we beat the law, right? And so it's very vague.

Like, what does that mean? Does that mean that chiropractic is supported and justified by the legal system? What actually happened here was they sued the AMA under federal antitrust law, right? So chiropractors were basically saying, the AMA is trying to box us out and establish a monopoly on healthcare.

They're restricting our trade.

And so this was an antitrust lawsuit.

This was about whether the AMA was legally boycotting or whether this was a violation of antitrust law.

Does that make sense? It does.

So ultimately, the judge did agree that the AMA's boycott was an attempt to squelch the field of chiropractic.

But what are they doing? So basically, in Macy's cybernetics conference, you have the theory all laid out.

Eventually, you get Moore's Law.

which basically is the mathematical predictions for the rates at which the transistors would be efficient enough, not just to actually track all of the data in real time, but then to store it and then to extrapolate data from it.

I mean, you're talking in the late 40s, we still got vacuum tubes.

So if you need a furry friend, grab one.

If you need an extra... furry blanket like i have here with me go ahead and get one so that we can cuddle in this is gonna be a really short video but still if you want like your extra additional emotional support blankies or activities or whatever go get them pause come back but again this is really quick video i wanted to just make everyone aware i've been seeing my feed is starting to definitely recognize that like this is the stuff i care about employment law issues and so i'm seeing a lot of people online sharing different stories about things that they're facing online different stories and experiences and things that people are facing in their workplaces and that's inspiring me to make certain videos and this is one of those videos So I saw someone online sharing a story about how they are like in an interracial relationship, right? So they are dating someone who's not the same race or like ethnic background as that the person who had made the video is.

And while they were at work, some of their colleagues were like making very derogatory comments about this person's partner at home.

And I am personally I'm multiracial like my family is like very mixed race very mixed culture and so that is like a norm that I have grown up with and that is relationship dynamic of having different races of people coming together and forming a family and like being in love and being together.

Okay.

It really is not like if someone is talking in a discriminatory, derogatory, offensive, crude, like oppressive manner about your partner at work, that is seen as an attack on you, the person.

who is there at work and so that can create a hostile work environment that can leave space for a discrimination claim that can leave space for a sexual harassment claim and again a hostile work environment claim that can leave space for like a lot of different types of lawsuits related to employment law and like even just personal injury there are a lot of different ways So this is again, I don't I'm going to try to not dwell on this and like share a bunch of personal anecdotes here.

But if you are at work and especially as like tensions in our country continue to escalate and specifically like racial tensions in our country continue to escalate.