Re-Examination: Conversations with the storytellers behind legal history

Re-Examination: Conversations with the storytellers behind legal history

Re-Examination is a podcast that revisits legal history with the lawyers behind it, focusing on the intersection of law and storytelling. Produced in collaboration between Infinite Global and M Coffey, this podcast focuses on the cases and advocacy that have brought about transformative change.

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February 13, 2025 51 mins

In this episode of Re-Examination, Murray Coffey and Andrew Longstreth sit down with journalist and historian Jeffrey Toobin to discuss one of the most consequential moments in American political history—Gerald Ford’s decision to pardon Richard Nixon. In his new book, The Pardon: The Politics of Presidential Mercy, Toobin argues Ford’s act—however well-intended—was a political miscalculation that deepened distrust in government.

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In this episode, we sit down with Steve Schleicher, the veteran trial lawyer who played a pivotal role in the prosecution of Derek Chauvin for the murder of George Floyd. Steve shares the behind-the-scenes strategy and storytelling approach that shaped one of the most significant cases in U.S. history. We explore how Steve's meticulous preparation, experience, and ability to humanize the narrative for the jury helped secure ju...

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When the Supreme Court heard arguments in Trump v. United States over presidential immunity, it didn’t take long for the intent of the Founding Fathers to take center stage.

“There are amici here who tell us that the Founders actually talked about whether to grant immunity to the president,” Justice Sotomayor said early in the hearing. “And, in fact, they had state constitutions that granted some criminal immunity to governors. And ...

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March 28, 2024 62 mins

In the first episode of season two, Infinite Global Head Writer Andrew Longstreth and M Coffey founder Murray Coffey speak with Michael L. Bloch and Benjamin D. White about their role taking on the white supremacists who organized the Unite the Right Rally in Charlottesville in 2017. The $26 million verdict they helped win for victims of the violence made national headlines and sent a powerful message to the defendants and their al...

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In this episode, George Fatheree III talks about his journey leading to his representation of the heirs of Charles and Willa Bruce, whose land in the city of Manhattan Beach in Los Angeles County was taken away from them a century ago.

Justice for the Bruces gained momentum in April 2021 when Los Angeles County Supervisors Janice Hahn and Holly Mitchell announced their intention to have Los Angeles County return the beachf...

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In the second episode of Re-Examination, Robbins Geller Rudman & Dowd founding partner Paul Geller shares the inside story of how a group of plaintiffs’ lawyers, and states, counties, municipalities and even school districts banded together to secure more than $50 billion in settlements over the opioid crisis. 

Among those who have paid for what has been called “one of the greatest mistakes of modern medicine” are the thousands ...

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In episode one of Re-Examination, senior Jenner & Block partner Anton “Tony” Valukas explains how he approached telling one of the most consequential and complicated stories of our time: the collapse of Lehman Brothers. 

Once the world’s fourth largest investment bank, Lehman filed for bankruptcy on September 15, 2008. Its collapse contributed to the greatest economic crisis since the Great Depression of 1929. 

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