On this episode of Bad News, Good Lawyers, host Tom Firestone, head of our Government Investigations & White Collar Practice, is joined by longtime friend Jamison Firestone, founder of the first independent foreign law firm in post-Soviet Russia and author of Rule of Lies: My Wild Ride Through Chaos, Corruption, and Murder in Putin’s Russia.

Jamison reflects on building a pioneering legal practice in Moscow during the early 1990s – one of the most dangerous times to reside in Russia – and navigating the corruption and personal dangers that defined the era.

The conversation also explores the lasting impact of the Magnitsky sanctions, Jamison’s work advancing the Global Magnitsky Justice Campaign, and his current efforts to support Ukraine through the use of frozen Russian state assets.