Bite-Sized Business Law
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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.
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She-Wolves of Wall Street
It wasn’t all that long ago that a woman on Wall Street was unheard of. However, through sheer determination and dwindling employee numbers after World War II, women began to make their mark on the trading hub of the world’s biggest economy. Paulina Bren has uncovered the real stories of women’s hard-fought battles to make a name for themselves on Wall Street, and she joins us today as an author, historian, and professor to unpack her fascinating new book, She-Wolves: The Untold History of Women on Wall Street. We begin with Paulina’s story and why she chose to write about women on Wall Street before exploring the first female entry into Wall Street, why feminism seems to fail in this space, the many scrupulous challenges women faced just to be recognized on Wall Street, and the similarities that exist between the first women who successfully navigated their entry into Wall Street. We end with the overarching dangers of undervaluing women and their opinions in the workplace, and Paulina explains what’s next for her in 2025. Tune in to hear the untold stories of trailblazing women on Wall Street, their battles for recognition, and the lessons we can learn from their perseverance and contributions to the financial world!
Key Points From This Episode:
- Writer, historian, and professor, Paulina Bren walks us through her background story.
- Why she chose to write about Wall Street and, specifically, the women who fought to be there.
- How women found the courage to pursue finance in the World War II era.
- What we can learn from the story of Muriel “Mickey” Siebert.
- Insight into why feminism fails on Wall Street.
- Concrete barriers women had to overcome to find a place on Wall Street.
- Common traits between the pioneering women of Wall Street.
- Why Paulina omitted certain events from her book and why others were non-negotiable.
- Reasons women are still undervalued on Wall Street.
- Dangers of excluding women from high-level roles and decisions.
- Paulina’s plans for the future (and a memorable excerpt from She-Wolves).
Links Mentioned in Today’s Episode:
She-Wolves: The Untold History of Women on Wall Street