Bite-Sized Business Law
Looking for the latest in legal business news?
Get a breakdown of the top stories in business law from industry leaders on the front lines with Bite-Sized Business Law. Host Amy Martella takes a closer look at the latest corporate happenings through interviews with the attorneys, legal experts, public figures, and scholars behind the news to distill business law’s biggest stories into bite-sized portions.
This is your chance to go further into the world of business law and stay up to date with legal cases and industry trends.
Corporations impact us all, leading changes that extend far beyond business to shape the economy, public policy, technology, and beyond. Looking at the big picture, Amy discusses not only the underlying issues in business ethics and legal cases leading the biggest stories but also sparks thought-provoking discussions on where the law should be headed.
Amy is the Executive Director of the Corporate Law Center at Fordham University School of Law. Her background ranges from big law to government to tech startups, allowing her to offer an insider’s perspective of the issues that shape corporate actions, large and small. Covering crypto regulation to securities fraud, AI’s impact to Elon Musk’s pay package, Bite-Sized Business Law covers it all with guests of varying viewpoints to provide the nuanced analysis needed to tackle complex problems.
Whether you're looking for the latest in legal insight on intellectual property, mergers and acquisitions, business ethics or legal cases in the business law world, you’ll find it here. Enjoying a thoughtful perspective on the news stories of the moment, Bite-Sized Business Law examines big issues and delivers them in small doses.
Bite-Sized Business Law is a project by the Corporate Law Center at Fordham Law. The Center serves as a hub for scholars, professionals, policymakers, and students to engage in the study, discussion, and debate of current issues in corporate law. The Center focuses on aspects of corporate law, corporate compliance, antitrust law, and securities regulation. Through initiatives like the Mergers and Acquisitions seminar and the Securities Litigation and Arbitration Clinic, students actively engage in real-world research and cases, bridging the gap between classroom learning and practical application in the legal field.
Bite-Sized Business Law
From Briefs to Screenplays: How Legal Training Influenced a Legendary Career in Movies and Television with Brian Koppelman
Not all law students go on to practice law. During this episode, we host Brian Koppelman, who took his legal training in a totally different direction. He is the writer, director, producer, and showrunner behind some of pop culture’s most enduring works, including Oceans 13, Rounders, and the hit series Billions. Brian is a podcast host and a Fordham Law graduate who cites his legal experience as incredible fodder for the characters and stories appearing in his film and television work. During this conversation, he shares his perspective on the intrinsic value of legal studies, even for those with no intention to pursue a career in the field. Brian offers an overview of his multifaceted journey to the career he has today, including the process of learning to write for film and the aspects of human nature he finds most fascinating. We touch on abuses of power and the responsibility of the financial sector, before diving into the idea of risk-taking and how it translates in our lives. In closing, Brian encourages listeners to find a career that allows them to work from the part of themselves where they feel most alive. Join us today for something different!
Key Points From This Episode:
•An introduction to today’s guest, writer, director, and Fordham Law graduate, Brian Koppelman.
•Brian’s experience at Fordham Law and the interactions he had with students there.
•Why he doesn’t consider his time in law school a blip.
•How his experience with ADHD affected his success in the classroom.
•The decision to leave record production to the film industry.
•Why he chose to complete his legal studies even though he knew he wouldn’t use it.
•How Professor Abraham Abramovsky influenced the character of Petrovsky in Rounders.
•Why Brian recommends studying law if you have the opportunity to do so.
•Learning to write for film.
•The areas of law that Brian was most interested in.
•How he became interested in the area of writing about success journeys.
•What motivates success, and how money leads to power and influence.
•Abuses of power and the responsibility of the financial sector.
•Brian’s relationship with risk-taking and how he defines it.
•What industry Brian would have entered if he hadn’t become a writer.
•His advice to find something that allows you to work from the part of you that makes you feel most alive.
•His upcoming work, the final season of Billions.
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