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Our Curious Amalgam

Our Curious Amalgam

By: American Bar Association
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Our Curious Amalgam explores topics in antitrust, competition, consumer protection, data protection, and privacy law around the world with leading experts in those areas. It is an amalgam because it is a group of diverse topics all in one place. It is curious because it gets the experts and asks them in-depth questions.American Bar Association Career Success Economics Political Science Politics & Government
Episodes
  • #385 How Do We Level the AI Fluency Playing Field? The 21 Days of AI Grit and Growth Mindset Challenge
    Jul 6 2026

    Are you as AI fluent as you should be? The American Bar Association's "21 Days of AI: A Grit and Growth Mindset Challenge" is a free online resource that offers a path toward becoming adept in the use of AI to enhance legal practice and professional development. In this episode, hosts Alicia Downey and James Hunsberger speak with legal innovation strategist and "21 Days of AI" co-author Gabrielle Kohlmeier about the origins of the Challenge and how closing the AI knowledge gender gap was a key driver of the project. Listen and learn how the "21 Days of AI" can level the AI fluency playing field not just for women lawyers, but for anyone contending with the AI revolution in their work and personal life.

    With special guest:
    Gabrielle ZA Kohlmeier, Principal and Founder, GK Strategic Advisory, former Verizon Global Head of Legal Change

    Related Links:
    The 21 Days of AI: A Grit and Growth Mindset Challenge

    The Grit and Growth Mindset Project

    Hosted by:
    Alicia Downey, Downey Law and James Hunsberger, Axinn, Veltrop & Harkrider

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    30 mins
  • #384 What's Up? Enforcement Updates From the Middle East and Africa
    Jun 29 2026

    What have been the latest competition law developments across the Middle East and Africa in the last year? Nicolas Bremer and John Oxenham join Matthew Hall and Jeny Maier to discuss new filing regimes, agency priorities and hot topics for competition law compliance in jurisdictions across the Middle East, COMESA, and South Africa. Listen to this episode to get up to speed on what to know about these rapidly developing and evolving jurisdictions.

    With special guests:
    Nicolas Bremer, Partner, Bremer Law Firm and John Oxenham, Partner, Primerio

    Hosted by:
    Matthew Hall, McGuireWoods and Jeny Maier, Axinn, Veltrop & Harkrider

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    31 mins
  • #383 What's the Role of Communications Strategy in M&A? How Public Affairs Impacts Antitrust
    Jun 22 2026

    Recently, the role of lobbying in M&A has become the talk of the antitrust bar in current administrations in the U.S. and in other jurisdictions. But what about the related discipline of public affairs? Nat Wood, Managing Director of Rational 360, a strategic communications, public affairs, and crisis management firm, joins Jeny Maier and Puja Patel to discuss what's involved in crafting a public affairs strategy to support an M&A deal and how the playbook is changing in the current administration. Listen to this episode if you want to learn more about the tools of the trade for strategic communications in merger advocacy.

    With special guest:
    Nat Wood, Managing Director, Rational 360

    Hosted by:
    Jeny Maier, Axinn, Veltrop & Harkrider and Puja Patel, Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton

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    27 mins
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