A grounded look at Jones Day's practical guidance and mentorship for first-year law students.
Jones Day Talks keeps the focus on Perspectives and Pathways, a conference for first-year law students, and that narrow frame works in its favor.
Corporate law, translated into practical judgment.
Jones Day Talks is a professional legal interview series built around current corporate-law questions and practical practitioner judgment. Episodes move from AI copyright and FDA review pathways to venture IP diligence, cross-border corruption cases, energy transition, higher education infrastructure, and early-career law advice.
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Jones Day Talks is a corporate-law interview series with a practical, institutional tone. It favors structure. Episodes usually begin with a defined legal or business problem, followed by lawyers or guests who explain where the rules stand and what consequences may follow. The show is not built around debate or personality-driven banter. Its center of gravity is professional judgment. Recent episodes show the breadth clearly: AI authorship after the Supreme Court declined review of Thaler v. Perlmutter, FDA’s CNPV pilot program, IP due diligence in venture capital financings, energy transition in the United Kingdom, higher education infrastructure, and multinational corruption enforcement. The conversations often move in buckets, thresholds, timelines, and jurisdictional comparisons. That gives the series a useful shape for listeners tracking risk across regulated industries. Dave Dalton appears regularly as the voice setting up the subject, naming the participants, and moving the listener into the discussion. Some episodes then hand the floor to practice-focused moderators, including Brian Sedlak on Real Assets Roundup. That subseries connects legal analysis to real estate, energy, infrastructure, finance, universities, and public-private partnership agreements. The Women in IP material brings attention to AI, copyright, risk mitigation, and the continuing requirement of human authorship under current copyright doctrine. Venture-focused episodes with Tim Curry and Taylor Stevens bring the conversation closer to startups, financings, M&A, and intellectual property transactions. Investigations episodes add a more grave register, especially when cross-border enforcement, Interpol, Europol, and corruption cases are on the table. Career episodes create a second track. Perspectives and Pathways looks at first-year law students, interviews, recruiting, mentorship, professional brand, and the transition from law school to law practice. Those installments are warmer but still deliberate. The show’s best fit is an educated professional audience that wants legal issues explained by practitioners without reducing them to slogans. It is especially useful for corporate counsel, lawyers, law students, investors, regulated-industry operators, and business listeners who need to understand what legal developments may mean in practice. The production is formal enough to feel firm-backed, but the conversations are usually guided by direct questions rather than speeches. Its distinguishing feature is the combination of current legal developments, practitioner biography, and sector-specific business context. Jones Day Talks makes legal change sound less abstract by tying it to filings, approvals, financings, enforcement actions, campuses, infrastructure, and careers.
Made for: Designed for lawyers, law students, corporate counsel, regulated-industry professionals, investors, and business listeners who want measured legal context. It suits listeners comfortable with technical terms and practitioner-led explanation.
What sets it apart: The series pairs firm practitioners with narrowly framed legal and business questions, then works through consequences in a structured interview format. It stands out by moving across doctrine, transactions, regulation, investigations, real assets, and career formation without losing its practical legal spine.
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Based on 4 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Jones Day Talks makes legal rules, cross-border differences and law-firm career paths legible through disciplined conversations with practicing lawyers.
Jones Day Talks turns complex legal developments into orderly, interviewer-led conversations with the lawyers working through them. Dave Dalton asks for definitions, timelines and jurisdictional distinctions, giving guests room to explain how rules operate before addressing…
Rule 23's four requirements get airtime; your vague fear of class actions gets a syllabus.
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A grounded look at Jones Day's practical guidance and mentorship for first-year law students.
Jones Day Talks keeps the focus on Perspectives and Pathways, a conference for first-year law students, and that narrow frame works in its favor.
A measured guide to AI, copyright, and the human authorship principle behind legal uncertainty.
AI's collision with copyright law gives this Jones Day Talks episode a clear frame, as Dave Dalton asks Meredith Wilkes and Emily Tate why the risks feel unusually high.
A clear, lawyerly map of climate disclosure rules companies are navigating.
Climate disclosure is no longer a one-rule problem. This episode sets the SEC's rules announced in early March alongside the European Union's Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive and California's Climate Corporate Data Accountability Act and Climate-Related Financial…
First-generation legal careers, framed as practical personal pathfinding.
Jones Day Talks brings together three first-generation lawyers for a focused conversation about why they entered the law and how family background shaped that choice.
A measured look at how class actions work in the U.S. and why other jurisdictions are revisiting them.
The episode treats class actions as a live global issue: common in the United States for decades, less widely used elsewhere, and now drawing fresh interest in countries exploring class action or class action-like procedures. Its Rule 23 overview gives the U.S.



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First-year law students are the focus.
This episode discusses the Supreme Court's denial to review Thaler v.
This episode discusses the FDA's Commissioner's National Priority Voucher Pilot Program (CNPV), a new fast-track system for drug approval in 30-60 days, featuring experts Jessica Tierney and Melissa Mannion.
This episode features a discussion with Jones Day lawyers about transitioning from law school to legal practice, offering advice on interviews, recruiting, and building a professional brand.
This episode explores the relationship between higher education and real assets, focusing on funding, infrastructure issues, and the role of public-private partnerships in addressing current stressors in the U.S.
This episode features a discussion with IP expert Con Lee about conducting intellectual property due diligence in venture capital financings.
Jones Day lawyers discuss the future of energy in the UK, covering legal and regulatory aspects of energy transition.
Jones Day lawyers discuss trends in cross-border investigations and international enforcement actions with a new partner who has experience in U.S.
A panel of Jones Day lawyers discuss energy and utility issues facing the data center industry.
A panel of tax lawyers from Jones Day discuss the One Big Beautiful Bill Act and its implications for real asset transactions in energy, real estate, and infrastructure.
Jones Day lawyers discuss digital infrastructure assets as a fourth utility, with panel introductions and initial impressions of Columbus.
Introduction to a podcast series on real assets, covering legal and investment perspectives from Jones Day lawyers.
Jones Day Talks hosts Dave Dalton, Meredith Wilkes, and Emily Tate examine how AI is changing copyright, patent, trademark, and trade-secret risk.
Lawyers explain down rounds in venture capital, their causes, implications, and what parties need to know.
Jones Day Talks turns to the growing tangle of climate disclosure rules.
Jones Day lawyers discuss the SEC's new climate disclosure rule and its implementation considerations for affected companies.
This episode explores the current state of class actions (collective actions) in Spain, discussing the European Commission's directive, Spanish draft legislation, settlements, and third-party funding with legal experts Antonio Canales and Gonzalo Hero.
Dave Dalton opens by framing the conversation around first-generation lawyers at Jones Day.
Jones Day Talks opens with class actions as a cross-border legal issue.
Jones Day lawyers discuss their white paper on rising global regulation for artificial intelligence.
A panel of experts discusses a Jones Day white paper on labor trafficking in healthcare supply chains and resources for hospital leaders.
Jones Day lawyers discuss proposed changes to the Fundamental Review of the Trading Book and their implications for financial institutions.
A Jones Day lawyer discusses recent amendments to the Uniform Commercial Code and their impact on digital asset transactions.
Jones Day lawyers discuss recent regulatory developments in fintech and cryptocurrency, including a bipartisan bill, FDIC advisory, and California digital assets law.
This episode features Jones Day partners and associates discussing strategies for preparing and succeeding in callback interviews for law firm positions.
Lawyers discuss the practical application of confidentiality and professional secret in French law for international business disputes.
Jones Day lawyers discuss human trafficking risks arising from the Ukraine crisis with an OSCE expert.
Jones Day partner Josh Sterling discusses regulatory and legal challenges in derivatives and commodities markets amid economic uncertainty.
Jones Day lawyers discuss CFTC jurisdiction over crypto and regulatory developments in derivatives markets.
Discussion about the establishment of the Sims Chair in Competition Law at Arizona State University and the future of antitrust law education.
Lawyers discuss recent insider trading enforcement actions by the SEC, CFTC, and DOJ, including shadow trading cases and the impact of Dodd-Frank.
Jones Day lawyers discuss the European Central Bank's plans to invest in green bonds and integrate climate change risks into its policies.
This episode analyzes a federal court's decision in a cryptocurrency antitrust case and discusses its implications for future legal applications in the crypto space.