Cold Call Lawcast

Cold Call

The Cold Call Lawcast is a podcast hosted by Minnesota Law School Students from the University of Minnesota Law School, the University of St. Thomas School of Law, and the Mitchell Hamline School of Law.

  • 45 minutes 18 seconds
    Episode 37 - Raising the Bar
    On this episode of Cold Call, 2018 St. Thomas Law graduate Molly Hough talks to us about her experience as a recent law school grad. Molly is a practicing attorney who joined us on the podcast to talk about life as a new associate at a mid-sized law firm. Additionally, Molly recently passed the Minnesota bar exam and so we discuss the challenges and struggles of taking the exam.
    25 May 2019, 6:03 pm
  • 41 minutes 29 seconds
    Episode 36 - Aloha Clerk
    During this episode of Cold Call we talk to Robby Dube, a 3L from the University of Minnesota Law School. We discuss his clerkship on the Hawaii State Supreme Court. Were we jealous that Robby will get to spend a year in Hawaii clerking for their Supreme Court? Of course we were!
    14 May 2019, 2:13 am
  • 37 minutes
    Episode 35 - Fear Factor
    Fear Factor - Law School Edition! The co-host must answer a current events trivia question; wrong answers and they must grab a jelly bean out of the bag of "Bean Boozled". Half the jelly beans in the bag taste like regular jelly beans and the other half taste disgusting.
    2 May 2019, 3:02 am
  • 39 minutes 30 seconds
    Episode 34 - Endgame
    It's Endgame for the co-hosts as the semester starts to wind-down. On this episode, we talked about what we learned, specifically what we learned about ourselves, this year and the challenges with seeking employment in a competitive industry. We also discussed our favorite TV/movie lawyers because we all joined law school based on what we saw on the television, right?
    27 April 2019, 3:15 am
  • 44 minutes 21 seconds
    Episode 33 - Highs and Lows
    During this episode, we talk about the highs and lows of our first year in law school. Law School can be challenging and we go through our mental status at the end of the year.
    20 April 2019, 4:27 am
  • 46 minutes 11 seconds
    Episode 32 - Critique Our Podcast
    Sarah Koziol and Cristina Cruz join the podcast as guest co-hosts. Sarah, who went to art school and is a self-described podcast snob. She critiques the podcast to hopefully (but don't count on it) make the podcast better! We also talk about our summer plans, why water parks are awful, and why the movie Legally Blonde is a great law school movie... Cristina also reads us some bad legal jokes.
    4 April 2019, 4:31 am
  • 53 minutes 2 seconds
    Episode 31 - At The Border
    Al Otro Lado is a bi-national, direct legal services organization serving indigent deportees, migrants, and refugees in Tijuana, Mexico. Sarah Koziol traveled to Tijuana during spring break to work with migrants and refugees looking to enter the United States. We also talk to Sarah about her background in art, her work as a paralegal, and we also debate the importance of echo chambers.
    29 March 2019, 3:46 am
  • 30 minutes 7 seconds
    Episode 30 - TORT Part 2
    On Part 2 of TORT, we continue our conversation with Ellen and Jacob on the law school musical production of "A Tale as Old a Time". This musical parody will be playing March 29th and 30th at the Pantages Theatre in downtown Minneapolis, performance begins at 7:00 pm.

    During this episode we also cold call Ellen and Jacob by asking them challenging judicial trivia questions. Wrong answers are punished by having them answer shameful personal questions. What was Ellen's worst date? What was Jacob's most embarrassing moment? Listen and find out...
    20 March 2019, 11:24 am
  • 29 minutes 24 seconds
    Episode 29 - TORT Part 1
    On March 29th and 30th TORT (Theater of the Relatively Talentless) will be performing their musical parody "Tale as Old as Times" at the Pantages Theatre in downtown Minneapolis. Ellen and Jacob from TORT join the podcast to talk about their time at the University of Minnesota Law School, what areas of law they're interested in, and what being on a Journal is really like.
    15 March 2019, 2:30 am
  • 37 minutes 53 seconds
    Episode 28 - Under Construction
    We talk to Nick about his background in construction, working and growing up in Tennessee, and moving to Minnesota. We talk about how he determined with his partner to go to the University of Minnesota and what classes we like in law school.
    9 March 2019, 12:01 am
  • 57 minutes 32 seconds
    Episode 27 - Improv with Sua Sponte
    Sua Sponte, the law school improv group, joins the show to perform some improv. We talk to the Colleen and Nicolette about improv comedy and how their improv group helped them through law school. Check out their improv comedy show this Friday, March 1st at 5:30PM in the St. Thomas Law Moot Courtroom.
    1 March 2019, 5:11 am
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