Episode 14 of The Slarskey Brief is LIVE – Social Impact Litigation: Doing Well While Doing Good

February 9, 2026

Episode 14 of our podcast, The Slarskey Brief, is now live on YouTube, Apple Podcasts, and Spotify.

In this thought-provoking episode, “Doing Well While Doing Good,” Partner Evan Fried is joined by Times Wang, Founder of Farra & Wang, and Joe Slaughter, Deputy GC and Head of Litigation at Hunterbrook Media. Together they unpack the realities, challenges, and rewards of for-profit social impact litigation.

Highlights from the conversation include:

• How Joe and Times transitioned from Big Law and traditional defense practice to socially conscious plaintiff work and innovative legal entrepreneurship
• Deep dives into the mechanics of social impact litigation, with examples spanning forced labor class actions, consumer protection, antitrust, corporate misconduct, and holding foreign governments accountable
• Insights into how investigative journalism and litigation can work hand-in-hand to uncover corporate wrongdoing and drive real accountability, restitution, and deterrence
• Honest discussions about financial sustainability: the balancing act of “doing good” and “doing well,” case selection, and walking the line between both in a contingency practice focused on social impact litigation
• Firsthand perspectives on the power and fragility of free speech, the realities of fear and retaliation (in both the U.S. and China), and how the current legal climate is impacting both plaintiffs and the press
• Reflections on the strengths and limitations of the courts as instruments of social change—and why the rule of law in America remains, for now, both “magical” and worth defending

Click on the following links to view the video recording on YouTube, and to access the audio recording on Spotify or Apple Podcasts.