Whether you want to learn about complex legal topics or just stay in-the-know on current issues involving law, podcasts are an easy way to make the most of your valuable time. These top legal podcasts combine stellar research, expert insights, and engaging storytelling to help you build your industry knowledge. There’s a topic sure to pique your interest.
1. ABA Journal: Legal Rebels
Hear legal trailblazers and renegades tell their stories of how they’ve helped influence the legal profession and where they see law heading in the future. Legal Rebels hosts a variety of thinkers and experts who specialize in law and technology. Listen and blaze your own trail.
2. ABA Journal: Modern Law Library
Join host Lee Rawles and top legal authors each month as they review recent (and not so recent) legal publication. If you’re into legal theories and historical legal events, this podcast offers a wealth of knowledge.
3. ABA Law Student
This podcast from the American Bar Association Law Student Division is a must-listen for current law students and recent grads. The show covers everything from current court cases to practical advice on using your degree. Inspiring interviewees also share their unique professional journeys in law. Take a listen.
4. Above the Law – Thinking Like a Lawyer
Above the Law’s Joe Patrice, Kathryn Rubino, and Chris Williams combine their experiences as journalists and litigators on this sweet-but-salty podcast that takes a unique approach to legal discussions. Together, the hosts explore an everyday experience and reexamine it through the eyes of a lawyer. Get ready to dig deep into the legal side of an impeachment proceeding, the accuracy of how attorneys are portrayed on TV, and much more.
5. Bloomberg Law
Perfect if you want a thorough summation and analysis of legal issues and major cases in the news via interviews with legal scholars and practicing attorneys. While the podcast doesn’t release episodes on a set schedule, you can usually count on at least a handful of releases each month. Listen to podcasts.
6. LawNext
From legal technology startups to new law firm business models to enhancing access to justice, lawyer and journalist Bob Ambrogi and his guests discover the future of law and legal practice. This podcast centers on the latest industry changes through conversations with innovative legal software CEOs, GCs, and other prominent industry figures.
7. Law School Toolbox
Hosts Lee Burgess and Alison Monahan, both experts in law school and bar exam preparation, share practical advice on navigating law school, taking the bar exam, and pursuing legal careers. Each week, they discuss day-to-day experiences and offer tips to help law students succeed academically and professionally. Find out what’s in the Toolbox.
8. Lawyer 2 Lawyer
This award-winning podcast covers relevant, contemporary news from a legal perspective and raises thought-provoking questions for those involved in the industry. Host and criminal defense lawyer J. Craig Williams invites industry professionals to examine/debate current events and recent rulings. Launched in 2005, Lawyer 2 Lawyer is one of the longest-running podcasts on the internet. Get ready for hot topics from courts across the U.S.
9. Lawyerist
Explore the future of lawyering and law practice with this podcast. Weekly episodes feature conversations with successful lawyers, innovative thought leaders, and other creative people helping to shape the future of legal practice. This podcast is a great resource if you don’t yet know what kind of law you would like to practice or if you are leaning toward practicing in a small firm.
10. Oyez
Preparing for an oral argument? Or maybe you just need something to help you sleep! Oyez may be exactly what you need. Hear high-level oral arguments from timely cases before the Supreme Court of the United States.