The full Texas Appellate Law Podcast catalog is live on YouTube: 171 full episodes, going back to March 2020.
Our first few episodes came together as the world was shutting down and courts were going remote. Jody Sanders and I sat down with no clear audience in mind and no real plan beyond the next conversation. We had no idea where it would go. Now we do.
If you’ve followed along from the beginning, it’s all there. If you’re just finding us, you have a lot to explore. Either way, the archive is open.
A labor of love—and a repository
Building this show has been a labor of love. It’s also, for better or worse, become a repository—six years of conversations about Texas appellate practice, preserved for posterity as a standalone body of work.
Jody and I don’t record because someone handed us a content strategy. We do it because Texas appellate practice matters to the people involved in our court system: the trial lawyers working to protect their records from the first hearing, the appellate lawyers arguing the case once it gets there, the in-house counsel navigating litigation without a dedicated appellate team, and anyone who wants to understand how appellate courts think before they’re standing in front of one. And let’s not forget the justices themselves. Every episode is a conversation we’d want to have anyway. The mic just lets other people listen in.
What YouTube adds
Adding the catalog to YouTube changes what the archive can do. On a podcast feed, episodes stack in reverse chronological order and older content gets harder to find—the feed moves forward and the back catalog recedes. On YouTube, you can search by topic, including mandamus standards, preservation of error, and post-submission briefing, and pull up episodes that touch on it. Captions on individual videos make it easier to find where we actually discussed a specific issue, and playlists can group related episodes together by subject. That’s the kind of access a traditional podcast feed simply can’t give you.
A fair warning if you start at the beginning: we didn’t originally plan on a YouTube channel, and the earliest episodes show it. Production value was minimal; we were focused on the audio, not the video. That’s changed considerably since, and it keeps getting better. YouTube is no longer an afterthought. It’s becoming one of the primary ways people experience the show.
171 episodes and counting
In July 2025, when I wrote about the website archive, we had 152 episodes live. Since then, we’ve added nineteen more, covering significant Texas appellate decisions, practice-focused discussions on everything from briefing strategy to oral argument, and longer conversations about issues that don’t yield to a quick answer.
The mission hasn’t changed. We built this podcast to give practitioners a resource they could actually use, not a summary service. Six years and 171 full episodes in, that’s still the whole point: genuine discussion of the issues that shape Texas appellate practice.
Subscribe and dig in
If you haven’t subscribed yet, now’s a good time. Visit the Texas Appellate Law Podcast YouTube Channel and subscribe to stay current as new episodes drop. Liking an episode that’s useful to you and adding your own take in the comments helps other practitioners find it too. If you’re a longtime listener on Apple Podcasts or Spotify, a rating or review there still helps new listeners discover the show. We’re grateful for every listener—and now watcher—who’s followed our journey.
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