About the show
About The Business of Justice
Learning law, leadership and business from the people who built it.
About the Podcast
The Business of Justice explores the territory where law, business, wealth, leadership, service and ambition meet. Each episode is a candid conversation with an accomplished person — a trial lawyer, a firm founder, an entrepreneur, an investor, a veteran, a public servant — about how their career was actually built: the decisions, the failures, the relationships and the principles behind the outcome.
The central question connecting every episode: what can ambitious people learn from those who have built extraordinary careers, carried major responsibility and made defining decisions under pressure?
About Imdad Rahman
Imdad Rahman is a law student and the host of The Business of Justice. Born in the Bronx to Bangladeshi immigrant parents and raised in Los Angeles, he is a J.D. candidate in Southwestern Law School's accelerated two-year SCALE program, on the path to becoming a plaintiff trial lawyer. Through conversations with accomplished lawyers, entrepreneurs, investors and leaders, he explores the decisions, strategies and principles behind successful careers, leadership and meaningful impact.
The Mission
The mission of The Business of Justice is to give ambitious law students, young professionals and future entrepreneurs direct access to the lessons, mistakes and decisions of accomplished people.
The Audience
The show is made for people early in ambitious careers: law students weighing what kind of lawyer to become, young professionals building credibility from scratch, and future founders studying the people who already made the leap. It is equally at home with established attorneys, executives and investors who recognize their own path in the conversations — and who often become guests themselves.
How we interview
The Interview Philosophy
The show avoids shallow résumé interviews. Public accomplishments are the starting point, not the substance. Every conversation is built around the things biographies leave out:
- Turning points
- Failures
- Decisions
- Principles
- Relationships
- Risk
- Preparation
- Reputation
- Leadership
- Legacy