Season 3

Nov. 16, 2022

An End & A Beginning / Louis Goodman - University of Rochester

Louis goes solo in the season finale of 2022 to recommend some of his favorite previous episodes and give an update for the next season in 2023, which begins in January. Louis takes us back in time to the late 70’s in Rochester, New York, when he owned a Triumph Spitfire and worked at an auto parts…

Nov. 9, 2022

Simone Chambliss - Red Metric Law

Simone Chambliss is a criminal defense attorney at Red Metric Law. Despite just being an attorney for a little under two years, she has found her passion in helping people and defending the criminally accused in court. She’s had experience with defense and prosecution, both as a criminal defense at…

Nov. 2, 2022

Mark Willis - Whole Life Insurance as Banking Alternative

Mark Willis is not a lawyer, but a Certified Financial Planner and the co-host of the Not Your Average Financial Podcast. After watching the market meltdown in 2008, he came across strategies that he deemed worthy of recommending to clients and that would never leave them with the bad news that usu…

Oct. 26, 2022

Leave Depression Behind: Go to Law School - Dannie DeNovo

After suffering from severe depression in her teenage and college years, Dannie De Novo decided to study happiness so that her baby daughter would never have to go through what she did. Now in addition to being a lawyer she is a happiness coach and helps people combat loneliness, depression and man…

Oct. 19, 2022

Tom Kirkham - Cyber Security

Tom Kirkham isn’t a lawyer, but he helps lawyers as well as business owners keep their clients’ private data safe from breaches, ransomware attacks, hacking and other cyberthreats. He is a cyber security and defense systems consultant who’s been in the business for over 30 years, and the founder of…

Oct. 12, 2022

Virtual Law Offices (Real Money) - Sam Mollaei UCLA

Sam Mollaei has only been an attorney for 7 years, but he already has 7 different law firms which serve clients in a myriad of different fields ranging from business law, tax ID services, property damage, employment law, lemon law, and workers' compensation. He also helps law firms implement automa…

Oct. 5, 2022

Amanda Butler Schley / Sailboat Office - LSU

After working grueling hours at a big law firm, Amanda Butler Schley founded Business Law Group, a boutique firm focused on representing Louisiana entrepreneurs. Having her own firm and not having to show up in court allowed her to practice from her 44-foot sailboat as she sailed along the Gulf Coa…

Sept. 28, 2022

Preventing Stupid: Matt Davis - Cornell

Matt Davis left a job at the Department of Energy to move back to his hometown and practice law. Now he runs Davis Business Law, a firm with seven offices throughout Texas, Kansas and Oklahoma focused on helping lawyers and small businesses with a myriad of different corporate and legal matters. He…

Sept. 21, 2022

Dan Callahan - Davis

Daniel Callahan runs Callahan Consulting, providing consulting services on trial strategy and tactics as well as expert case matching - helping clients find attorneys specialized in a certain field or from a certain locale. He also provides consulting services to his law firm, Callahan & Blaine, by…

Sept. 14, 2022

Kenneth McCallion - Yale

Kenneth McCallion has been practicing law for half a century. He has been an Assistant United States Attorney, a New York State Attorney and a civil litigator and has worked on several high-profile environmental and human rights cases such as the Exxon Valdez oil spill, the construction of the Shor…

Sept. 7, 2022

Richard Zitrin - Escape to San Quentin

Richard Zitrin has been practicing law for 47 years. He’s currently a consultant to other lawyers on ethical issues and is occasionally an expert witness. His career started in the early 1970’s representing Johnny Spain in the San Quentin Six case. Richard then went on to teach legal ethics at USF …

Aug. 31, 2022

Doug Brown - Summit Success

Doug Brown has been an executive coach for over 10 years. He works with Summit Success International helping lawyers build up their business to a point it can run without them, giving them more time and freedom as well as earning the money they deserve from their ideal clients. Before joining Summi…

Aug. 24, 2022

Hon. Dorothy Proudfoot (ACBA) - Administrative Law Judge

In collaboration with the Alameda County Bar Association, Love Thy Lawyer presents an interview with: Judge Dorothy Proudfoot Judge Dorothy Proudfoot presides over arbitration hearings and conducts mediation sessions as an administrative law Judge for San Francisco's Residential Rent, Stabilizati…

Aug. 17, 2022

Roundtable - Qualified Immunity/Sec. 1983 with Fulvio Cajina & Adam Carlson

Fulvio Cajina and Adam Carlson join this roundtable discussion to talk about qualified immunity and Section 1983, and how they play into civil rights, police misconduct and compensation cases. They discuss how sometimes it’s challenging to establish a constitutional violation in court, and even whe…

Aug. 10, 2022

Tony Serra / The Original True Believer - Stanford

Tony Serra’s amazing career throughout several decades includes fascinating tales of representing clients in several high-profile cases from Huey Newton and the Black Panthers, to White Panthers, Hells Angels and many more. The movie True Believer was loosely based on his successful acquittal of Ch…

Aug. 3, 2022

Cherie Wallace - USF

There was never any doubt Cherie Wallace would become a criminal defense lawyer. Coming from a big family with several members that have been in the system, she has visited the inside of jails and prisons since she was little. She runs her own practice but also works as a senior of counsel attorney…

July 27, 2022

Adam Carlson - USF

Adam Carlson knew he wanted to be a lawyer since the days he would relentlessly argue with his mom. He began as an intake paralegal and now is a managing partner at Casper, Meadows, Schwartz & Cook handling personal injury cases with a client first approach. Adam previously worked at the Alameda Co…

July 20, 2022

Hon. Mark McCannon (ACBA) - Alameda County Superior Court

Judge Mark McCannon was an Alameda County Deputy District Attorney trying misdemeanor and felony cases for over 16 years before taking the bench as an Alameda County Superior Court Judge in 2013. Appointed by governor Jerry Brown, he currently handles felony and misdemeanor jury trials as well as p…

July 13, 2022

Carl Ficks - No Surrender LLC

Carl Ficks has been a lawyer since 1988. He started out at a small firm, and later went on to do civil litigation for big law and has done plenty of philanthropy as well. Now he runs No Surrender, a company specializing in helping busy professionals be more productive, less stressed and thrive thro…

July 6, 2022

Jesse Adams - Hastings

Jesse Adams has been practicing law since 2003. He worked for a few private firms before starting his own practice focusing on criminal defense in 2009. Jesse also worked at the San Diego Alternate Public Defender dealing with Dependency Court cases and fighting to reunite children with parents tha…

June 29, 2022

Marshall Hammons - Hastings

Despite only having practiced as an attorney for almost two years, Marshall Hammons has plenty of experience under his belt. He was an intern at the San Francisco Department of Police Accountability helping mediate lower level conflicts between citizens and police officers under a restorative justi…

June 22, 2022

Steve Fretzin - Be That Lawyer

Steve Fretzin has worked with hundreds of lawyers throughout the years, helping them grow their businesses through coaching, training and special programs. He’s a business advisor, author of four books, coach, and the host of the Be That Lawyer podcast. In this interview Steve talks about the impor…

June 15, 2022

Hon. Pelayo Llamas (ACBA) - Alameda County Superior Court

Hon. Pelayo Llamas Prior to becoming an Alameda County Superior Court Commissioner, Pelayo Llamas worked at the Oakland City Attorney’s Office for 18 years handling cases and helping eliminate drug trafficking, human trafficking, prostitution and other issues such as zoning violations and proper…

June 8, 2022

Roseann Torres - Albany Law

Roseann Torres used to be a Deputy Counsel and a Deputy District Attorney at San Joaquin County, but left her job as a prosecutor to start her own law firm in 2004. She is a current or former member of several community organizations such as the Alameda County Hispanic Chamber of Commerce, Centro L…