there was an absolute reaction from harvard law school. they said this is the most horrible book that has ever been published. how did this guy get into harvard law school? [laughing] there is some mistake. you know, there were people who wanted to take my diploma away. anyway, in the last 35 years, though, they've mellod out. you know? they've had me back. they've given me awards. it's incredible. and why is that? is that because they've changed in mir heart? no. it's because the television program gave them so much publicity. i don't mean to be cynical. i do like harvard law school. but come on, guys. >> ok. tony, you dedicated your life to the law and to justice. and you're known to take on the most impossible cases. do you think the justice system works? do you think it has value, at least the value that we seek to attribute to it? where we say in justice for all? >> nothing meaningful from an attorney comes from the seeded posture. it doesn't mean that anything meaningful comes from an attorney when he rises. let me share in respect to

there was an absolute reaction from harvard law school. they said this is the most horrible book that has ever been published. how did this guy get into harvard law school? [laughing] there is some mistake. you know, there were people who wanted to take my diploma away. anyway, in the last 35 years, though, they've mellod out. you know? they've had me back. they've given me awards. it's incredible. and why is that? is that because they've changed in mir heart? no. it's because the television program gave them so much publicity. i don't mean to be cynical. i do like harvard law school. but come on, guys. >> ok. tony, you dedicated your life to the law and to juste.

law professor. recently retired. you've taught at a number of different schools. any thoughts on that? >> well, yes, i have lots of thoughts on it. i went to harvard law school. and believe me, when i was there, there was no legal aid at all. everybody was become a corporate lawyer. there was no question about it. you didn't even think about it. it would never even dawn on anybody. i don't think that anybody knew that there were defense attorneys. you know? anyway, at its heart that little clip said something, i think, because kingsfield is actually violating the very stuff he's teaching. he's teaching contract law, which is all about reciprocity between people. and there are implicit promises when a law student comes into a classroom. you know? there are implicit promises about respect, about duties, about obligations. kingsfield is violating all of those. so he's not paying attention in the essence of his being to the most important thing that he's doing. does he know a lot of contract law? yes. he's a genius. does he understand the heart of contract law? no. he doesn't. you know? and in that same sense law school is violating the promises in a more general

i do like harvard law school. but come on, guys. >> ok. tony, you dedicated your life to the law and to justice. and you're known to take on the most impossible cases. do you think the justice system works? do you think it has value, at least the value that we seek to attribute to it? where we say in justice for all? >> nothing meaningful from an attorney comes from the seeded posture. it doesn't mean that anything meaningful comes from an attorney when he rises. let me share in respect to answering your question what some of the after riseles are that are circulating the concept. the lawyers sit in the hall of justice, in the hall, and they converse with their client and other attorneys. and there's a little refrain that is often repeated. and it goes, "the only justice in the hall of justice is in the hall." so the perception is that justice is not rendered via the path of law or via the path of court. justice, as the native american says, is just us, to it the native establishment. for the native american, the white power system. for us

after a scholarship to miln academy, in massacsetts, he attended harvard university and harvard law school. he's written a new book about this journey of his. it is calle "a reason to believe: lesso fromn improbable life." i'm pleased to have him at this table. welcome. >> thank you. thank you so much for having me. >> rose: so talk about growing up. and let's just start with mother and father and the moment your father, who was a musician, leaves home. >> well, my parents split when i was four. as you said, i grew up on the south side of chicago and much of that time on welfare. my father was a dedicated musician. he was one of the founders of an avant-garde jazz band. very good jazz band called su a. >> rose: but also played with duke ellington. >> duke, they will loanus monk, who he loved. and he was totally dedicated to his music and i didn't apprecte the discipline and engagement of my father as a musical professional as a four-year-d. what i appreciated was that he was distant and my parents had a strained relationship and one day, as i write about in the book, he came home, my mothe

it was no surprise that i was a liberal i went to harvard law school and 98% shot was a liberal. [laughter] i told my was profiling the biggest names and looking at the changes of social messaging so i told them what the book was about. they probably stopped listening a profiling the biggest names in tv. all these people wanted to we interviewed but as a subtle reminder i wore my harvard law baseball cap and do better in the regular basis. i have to cover my head for religious reasons but i do if lowered good dual purpose. the hollywood community natalee proud of the liberalism but believes would it is doing is right. openly discriminatory and happy to use the power to proselytize they are handing glove to push liberalism their subsidies and back scratching and twist the market as i have explained to achieve their own end. i will play the adios you can hear directly from the people we're talking about. leonard goldberg is of political terror up station attendant and and producer attorneys angels and it is of member of the board of cbs and aaron spelling's tv partner. he sums it u

country could someone like me have an opportunity to go from having nothing to go to stanford, harvard law school, and to be an attorney. it really is a way of giving back. i really believe that when you are blessed with the opportunities that this country gives you, that you have an obligation to give back. i really believe in public service. i could be in the private sector and make a lot of money, but i believe i have a duty to try to make things better for other people and to pay back the country that has given me so much. >> looking back to your campaign for supervisor, what lesson did you walk away with after that experience? did anything surprise you? supervisor campos: the first lesson is how lucky we are to live in san francisco how lucky i am to represent district 9. as you indicated, it includes bernal heights, and it also includes the portola. it is such a rich district. getting to know people of the district through the campaign, doing the job of a supervisor has been the most rewarding super rigid experience. -- the most rewarding experience. it is amazing how the people are. it has

and so i wrote a paper at harvard law school on safe automobile engineering and the law. >> hinojosa: and back then, did people kind of think, "unsafe automobiles? what's this guy focusing on cars? cars are like, supposed to be everything that we want, and.. >> yeah. >> hinojosa: did they all think you were just kind of... >> yeah, well, you know, this was in 1950s. the cars were advertised as psychosexual dreamboats with fins and ornaments and so on. never mind fuel efficiency, crash safety, or ease of maintenance to repair, pollution control. that's what we changed completely. the demand by the public for all these points that i just mentioned grew in the mid-1960s congressional hearings, the signing by lyndon johnson of the various motor vehicle and pollution control laws. >> hinojosa: so you know that a lot of people... there are people who know you as the tireless consumer advocate... >> mm-hmm. >> hinojosa: ..and then there are people who didn't know anything about you... >> mm-hmm. >> hinojosa: ...until you decided to run for president in the year 2000. and then they say, "oh,

that makes sense that below you talk to me because my last name is shapiro and because it was harvard law school and he assumed that i was a liberal i never said to them i was a conservative i never said to them i was a liberal and told me exactly what the book was about there is no lying that went on the tape recorder was in front of them everything was done with permission and the question is the same question regardless of who asks it great i'm happy that i thank you so much for joining us tonight so much for having me. all right still to come governor gives a very different. i think out in the bible the band has stated draconian budget cuts are made tell you who it is in our school find segment and on tap into night happy hour are suckered will be disliking the latest number of facebook users and a new group potato chip commercial takes a stab at a dominant strauss kahn isn't it going to catch on all over and what really. you know sometimes you see a story and it seems so you think you understand it and then a glimpse something else hears you some other part of it and realize that everything

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parker graduated from harvard law school in 1975. and before spending 20 years in the city attorney's office, she spent five years as assistant u.s. attorney for the northern district of california. >>> state legislators have until wednesday to meet the constitutional deadline to send a balanced budget to the governor. democrats and republicans are $9 billion away from doing that. the state senate passed a few minor budget bills today but did not address the so-called bridge tax. governor brown wants to keep the states's finances afloat until the fall. assembly's next session is on monday. >>> they will punish lawmakers for missing the deadline. they will muse salary and per diem each day they fail to reach a deal. and the state controller will not pay them retroactively when a budget is approved. >>> the great highway between lincoln and sloan is now shut down for sand abatement. the cleanup is required every so often when the winds blow sand on to the pavement. no word on how long the closure will last but officials say a detour is

in the spring of 2010, ny and harvard law schools had a conference to school law firms being highly critical of law school's curriculum, for which rope the corps have reduced hiring. are these corporate law firms correct? and given the economic times what are the cost benefits of one entertaining the idea of law school? >> guest: law firms have always been -- have always complained about legal education. they think that we teach too much sort of theoretical stuff and we don't give enough practical experience to -- or don't teach enough practical skills to law students. the law schools know this and they have been trying hard over decades to introduce more christian -- clinical teaching and more practical teaching. it's very hard to teach that stuff. the only way to learn how to conduct deposition is to do it, where you're with a senior law and you watch and you're allowed to ask questiones. that cannot be taught in law school. most of the law is based on practical experience, not book learning. that just the way things are. >> a few minutes left with our in-depth guest, eric posner. santa ro

i went on to harvard college, the first and my family to go to college to harvard law school. i lived in chicago and boston and los angeles and new york, here in d.c., atlanta, sudan. i've done business all over the world. i've had some remarkable experiences, and probable ones in the eyes of many. i've argued in the supreme court, hitchhiked from cairo to khartoum and i've served as the first black governor of massachusetts on my first time running for office but as i reflect on these experiences, each has its roots in the lessons i try to write about in this book, these lessons have given me a sense of the possible and that has made all the difference. i write in the book about the transition from the south side of chicago to the milton academy about the experience of trying to bridge these different worlds where each one seems to demand that you reject the other as the price of acceptance into one and how important it was for me to understand ultimately that there was a false choice. i write about the way the old ladies and big hats in church back home taught me to see that

harvard law school, was a practicing lawyer but he didn't know enough. and he attend all conceivable subject matter sorbonne lectures and watching the other students he noticed the black students had just the same kinds of ambitions as he had. they were... they acted just the same as everybody else. they were treated just the same as everyone else. and he sai in his journal at the time "wonder if how we treat black people back in my country has more to do with what we were taught than the natural order of things." and this was an epiphany for him. cameome, got involved th politics, got into the senate and became this voice second only to lincoln. and it happened in paris. that's what he brought home from paris. another major character in my view is augustus st. godin, the great sculptor. it's a great american story. here's an immigrant shoe makers kid, grew up on the streets of new york, gang fights and all that, put to work when he was 13 years old who decides he wants to be a sculptor and knows there are no adequate schools for sculpting in the united

i went on to harvard college, the first in my family to go to college, to harvard law school.i've lived in chicago and boston and los angeles, in new york, here in d.c., in the atlanta, in the sudan. i've done business all over the world. i've had some remarkable experiences, improbable ones in the eyes of many. i've argued in the supreme court, i've hitchhiked from cairo to khartoum, i've counseled two presidents. i've served as the first black governor of massachusetts on my first time running for office. but as i reflect on each of these experiences, each has its roots in the lessons that i try to write about in this book. these lessons have given me a sense of the possible, and that has made all the difference. i write in the book about the transition from the south side of chicago to milton academy, about the experience of trying to bring these very different worlds where each one seemed to demand that you reject the other as the price of acceptance in the one and how important it was for me to understand, ultimately, that that was a false choice. i write about the way th

my last name is shapiro and i went to harvard law school at least 98.6% shot i'm a liberal. [laughter] i told them by the way that i was writing a book about the history of television profiling the biggest names and i was looking at the changes in social messaging from six in the city's witold them with the book was about i think they stopped listening at profiling the biggest names in tv. ego kills. all these people wanted to be interviewed because they thought we are the biggest names in tv. as a reminder of my credentials i wore my harvard law baseball cap for the interviews i did to i do that on a regular basis as you can see i cover my head. i have to cover my head for religious reasons but it serves a purpose their none of them googled me. what i found was stunning. the hollywood community that's not only products liberalism but believes deeply what it's doing is right. they are discriminatory and happy to use their power to proselytize liberalism. the work hand in glove with the d.c. to keep pushing liberalism that happens to subsidies and back scratching and i will t

he went to harvard, columbia law school, did all the right things, and ended up as the u.s. attorney for manhattan, the southern district of new york. he inherited this case that had already been three years in the investigating when he arrived in office, which turned out to be the biggest case of insider trading in history. a couple of months after he came into office, he announced the arrest of raj rajaratham, who headed a big hedge fund called galleon, and a few of his associates in crime. the wire tops when did -- wiretaps ended up netting dozens of hedge fund people, lawyers, and corporate types across the top levels and middle levels of industry and finance. and it has become his signature case. the case was tried this past spring in manhattan. on may 11, reuter rodham -- rajaratham was convicted on all counts. insider-trading is hard to get because it goes on all the time and it is easy to elude detection. this lawyer has put his signature on fighting corruption on wall street. >> -- tavis: i am going to place cynic right now. insider-trading happens on wall street al

cum laude from harvard law school in 1981. he began his legal career as trial attorney with the antitrust division justice department. in 1985, he spent six months as special tant u.s. -- special assistant u.s. attorney for eastern district virginia and argued one appeal before the fourth circuit. mr. simon joined a large law firm as an associate in 1986. since 1990, he has been a partner and head of litigation for the firm's portland office. throughout his career, mr. simon has advocated on behalf of the american civil liberties union of oregon as a pro bono attorney but his involvement in the aclu goes beyond mere representation of a client. mr. simon has been a member of the aclu of oregon since 1986. he is an active member of their lawyers committee and served as a board member from 1997 to the year 2004. he was the vice president for legislation 1997-1998 and vice president for litigation years 2000-2004. now, i recognize a judicial nominee should not be evaluated solely on client lists or memberships. that would be very

. >> well, steven shavell is a harvard law professor who i had in law school, and you know come in thest year of law school you learn a lot of law and it's not always clear why one rule makes sense rather than another rule. and i would just use a very simple example. in great britain, if you bring a lawsuit and you lose you have to pay the attorneys seize on the other side. whereas in the united states if you bring a lawsuit, you pay your own attorneys he and the other pot -- of the site pays their attorney fees regardless of who wins. a natural thing to ask is why, which rule is better? maybe the british rule is bad and we should accept it. i thought steven shavell was very clear about the different cost of benefits. he applied the kind of cost-benefit analysis. and he writes very clearly, so i modeled a lot of my scholarship after his, although his is much more mathematical and i tend not to use mathematics. cass sunstein we've talked about before. he's just a very admirable person. he is so committed to scholarly enterprise. that is quite inspiring. now, in public he's written contr

i went to law school at harvard. after clerking for a judge, i came out here in 1997. i have been here for the last 14 years. i have always lived in the castro. i am an attorney. i started out in private practice. i settle private law firm during complex commercial litigation. in 2002, and moved over to the sentences the city attorney's office where i worked on the trial team doing trials for the city, handling my own cases, and supervising a team of attorneys as well. >> why did you choose to live in san francisco? >> i always assumed i would go back to the philadelphia area since that is where my family is. i was always interested in san francisco in terms of what it is as a city, its culture, it's amazing lgbt community. i came out here for a summer, fell in love with it. i have been interested in politics since i was a kid. i worked on campaigns as a teenager. i was involved campaign against senator jesse helms when i was in college. when i cannot hear, and was not initially involved politically. -- when i came out here, i was not initially involved politically. i

as an adviser to his harvard law school friend during the presidential campaign, the chairman and urged obama to harness the power of the internet, introducing strategies that will change the way campaigns are run for ever. since his appointment in 2009, the chairman has focused on protecting the consumer and ensuring better telecommunications and technology systems work for real american families. by helping them to become aware of their rights as consumers and providing them with the tools to protect themselves against unfair practices. they aim to help american families keep their hard earned money by becoming a savvy consumer. the chairman deserves our thanks for his ongoing efforts to make a positive and long-lasting effect -- impact on the livelihood of american families. please join me in welcoming him. >> happy father's day to everyone here. i see some nice new ties in the audience. i am pleased to be back. i was here last october to announce the launch of a major new effort to crack down on bill shocke. when mobile subscribers see their bills jumped unexpectedly by a lot of mon