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Episode 21: The Racism's Baked Right In

ALAB Series

All Lawyers Are Bad

Business

4.8869 Ratings

🗓️ 8 March 2021

⏱️ 90 minutes

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Summary

Andy, Michael, Tim, and Tarik discuss "race norming" and related statistical shenanigans being used in courts today -- most famously in the NFL's concussion class action settlement -- to disadvantage women and people of color, a facially indefensible practice that somehow goes virtually unchallenged.

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0:00.0

Like I did become obsessed with this issue when I was in law school and I spent way more time than I should have

0:08.9

reading all these expert depositions and these trial transcripts and stuff and I had in my mind

0:13.6

that I was going to write something for the journal I was on and I don't know if you

0:17.8

guys have ever been in this position where you just become disempowered for a

0:22.3

particular task that you want to do.

0:24.1

I didn't, I'm not from a prestigious undergrad with a lot of writing experience or anything.

0:29.8

I've had to write, I've had to learn my writing skills on the job.

0:32.0

And exam writing as you know has nothing to do with actual writing.

0:36.0

So I wasn't a good writer, I think, at the start anyway, but I just could not fucking do this I tried a million different times I spent years

0:46.6

collecting research on the guy from the ferry case on the phone for I called the guy from the

0:51.6

But somehow it just phone for God I called the God for rights.

0:56.0

But somehow it just came out fucking dog shit and I honestly still feel like a little

1:00.0

humiliated about it that I could not get it together.

1:03.2

So this episode has like a little bit of personal hook for me

1:06.0

because I acknowledge that what I drafted there just did not come out right.

1:10.8

And I legitimately almost cashed in on this

1:15.0

and was like, fuck it, let's just do something else.

1:17.0

Right.

1:18.0

Right. We recorded this previously.

1:20.0

Mine is still.

1:21.0

This thing got in my head.

1:24.0

Yeah.

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