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The Last Murder, What You Didn't Know About Ted Bundy. Special Episode. Ted Bundy is a name that continues to send chills down the spine of America. His horrific crimes left a trail of devastation across multiple states, but it was in Lake City, Florida, where his reign of terror came to a brutal end. Bob Dekle was a guest on the Law Enforcement Talk Radio Show and Podcast, he is a retired Lawyer and lead the team that prosecuted Ted Bundy. He talks about the investigation, trial and the execution. The interview with George "Bob" Dekle is available as a free podcast on the Law Enforcement Talk Radio Show and Podcast website and platforms like Apple Podcasts, Spotify and most major podcast platforms. The Last Murder: Kimberly Dianne Leach On February 9, 1978, 12-year-old Kimberly Dianne Leach was abducted from her middle school in Lake City, Florida. It was a dreary, rainy day. Her disappearance set off a frantic search, but after seven grueling weeks, her body was discovered in a farm shed near Suwannee River State Park. Kimberly had been sexually assaulted and murdered, marking the last murder committed by Ted Bundy. Follow the Law Enforcement Talk Radio Show and Podcast on Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn, Newsbreak, Medium and most all social media platforms. The Man Behind the Investigation In this podcast episode we feature George "Bob" Dekle, a retired prosecutor who played a pivotal role in the investigation, prosecution, and execution of Ted Bundy. Dekle’s firsthand experience offers insights into Bundy’s predatory behavior and the meticulous legal work required to bring him to justice. The Last Murder, What You Didn't Know About Ted Bundy. Read the supporting stories about this and much more from Law Enforcement Talk Radio Show and Podcast in platforms like Medium, Newsbreak and Blogspot. Dekle, an Assistant State Attorney in Florida's Third Judicial Circuit from 1975 to 2005, served as the lead prosecutor in Bundy’s 1980 Orlando murder trial. His book, The Last Murder: The Investigation, Prosecution, and Execution of Ted Bundy, published in 2011, provides an in-depth look at the case. Listen to the interview as a free podcast on the Law Enforcement Talk Radio Show and podcast website, also available on platforms like Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and most major podcast outlets. The Capture and Trial of Ted Bundy Before Kimberly’s body was found, Bundy’s crime spree had already escalated. In January 1978, Bundy attacked five Florida State University students, killing two sorority sisters and severely injuring three others. Authorities in Tallahassee were deep into this investigation when Kimberly vanished. Follow the Law Enforcement Talk Radio Show and podcast on Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn, Newsbreak, Medium and most all social media platforms. Bundy was arrested in Pensacola for driving a stolen vehicle, but authorities soon realized they had apprehended one of America’s most notorious criminals. His trial for Kimberly Leach’s murder began on January 7, 1980. Unlike previous trials where Bundy acted as his own attorney, he was represented by two Attorneys who attempted an insanity defense. Shocking Trial Revelations The trial lasted eight weeks, during which 65 witnesses testified. Key evidence included fiber samples linking Bundy to Kimberly and the van used in her abduction. One firefighter testified seeing Bundy dragging Kimberly from her school, and a young girl from Jacksonville recounted a chilling encounter with him days before the kidnapping. The Last Murder, What You Didn't Know About Ted Bundy. Check out the show on Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn, Newsbreak, Medium and most all social media platforms Perhaps the most bizarre moment came during the penalty phase. Bundy proposed to his girlfriend, in the courtroom while she was on the stand. With a legal loophole, Bundy’s spontaneous proposal and her acceptance made the marriage binding, a desperate, last-ditch effort to sway the jury. The Verdict and Execution The jury saw through Bundy’s manipulations, deliberating for less than 10 hours before finding him guilty. On the second anniversary of Kimberly Leach’s death, February 9, 1980, Bundy was sentenced to death. He was executed in 1989, bringing an end to one of the darkest chapters in American criminal history. It is available as a free podcast on the Law Enforcement Talk Radio Show and Podcast website, on Apple Podcasts, Spotify and most major podcast platforms. Continuing the Conversation For more on this chilling story, tune in to this podcast episode for free on the Law Enforcement Talk Radio Show website, also available on Apple and Spotify. Follow us on Facebook, Instagram, and LinkedIn for updates on true crime stories, legal insights, and exclusive interviews with people like Bob Dekle. The Last Murder, What You Didn't Know About Ted Bundy. The story of Ted Bundy is a harrowing reminder of the evil that can hide in plain sight. But it’s also a testament to the relentless pursuit of justice by investigators, prosecutors, and the communities affected by his crimes. Stay informed and vigilant, because sometimes, the most terrifying stories are the ones we think we already know. You can help contribute money to make the Gunrunner Movie. The film that Hollywood won't touch. It is about a now Retired Police Officer that was shot 6 times while investigating Gunrunning. He died 3 times during Medical treatment and was resuscitated. You can join the fight by giving a monetary "gift" to help ensure the making of his film at agunrunnerfilm.com. Learn useful tips and strategies to increase your Facebook Success with John Jay Wiley. Both free and paid content are available on this Patreon page. Be sure to follow us on MeWe, X, Instagram, Facebook,Pinterest, Linkedin and other social media platforms for the latest episodes and news. You can contact John Jay Wiley by email at Jay@letradio.com. Get the latest news articles, without all the bias and spin, from the Law Enforcement Talk Radio Show and Podcast on the Newsbreak app, which is free. Find a wide variety of great podcasts online at The Podcast Zone Facebook Page, look for the one with the bright green logo. Background song Hurricane is used with permission from the band Dark Horse Flyer. Be sure to check out our website. The Last Murder, What You Didn't Know About Ted Bundy. Attributions Wikipedia ABC NEWS Wikipedia Your Community PaperSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

In the world of co-parenting, communication can often be one of the most challenging aspects, especially when tension and conflict are involved. Miscommunication, missed messages, or even hostile exchanges can complicate an already difficult process. This is where co-parenting apps step in, providing structured and secure communication that can minimize conflict and create a healthy space for parents to manage their responsibilities. With the help of these tools, co-parents can protect their peace of mind, focus on the needs of their children, and have a record of all interactions for transparency and legal protection. One of the most trusted platforms in this space is TalkingParents, which has helped thousands of parents streamline their communication. In this episode, we dive into how TalkingParents makes co-parenting smoother by providing essential features like secure messaging, shared calendars, and detailed records that can be presented in court. We explore the most-loved features of the app and discuss how it has empowered parents to minimize conflict while keeping their children's well-being at the forefront. Stephen Nixon, the Founder of TalkingParents, has a rich background in law, holding a degree from the Florida State University College of Law. Before founding TalkingParents, he served as both an Assistant State Attorney and an Assistant Public Defender in Florida's First Judicial Circuit and later ran a solo/small firm practice. Stephen's passion for the intersection of law and technology led him to create TalkingParents, where his goal is to improve the lives of co-parents and their children while also making the judicial process more efficient. Connect with Stephen: Sign up for your free account now: www.talkingparents.com/jbd Facebook: www.facebook.com/talkingparents Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/TalkingParentsApp/ YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/talkingparentsapp Journey Beyond Divorce Resources: Book a Free Rapid Relief Call: http://rapidreliefcall.com  Follow JBD on Instagram: @journey_beyond_divorce A word from our sponsors: Soberlink is a revolutionary tool designed to support individuals in their journey to sobriety. As a leading provider of remote alcohol monitoring, Soberlink offers a secure and reliable solution that helps people stay accountable and transparent in their recovery process. We're grateful for Soberlink's commitment to enhancing the recovery process and providing valuable resources to our listeners. Learn more about how Soberlink can make a difference in your journey at www.soberlink.com/jbd ======= TalkingParents provides a comprehensive platform designed to simplify co-parenting and enhance communication between parents. With secure messaging, a shared calendar, and features for tracking parenting time, TalkingParents ensures that all important details and agreements are documented and accessible.  We're grateful for TalkingParents' support in simplifying co-parenting and enhancing communication for our listeners. Discover how TalkingParents can bring clarity and organization to your co-parenting journey at www.talkingparents.com/jbd

Do you struggle with communication with your co-parent and often wonder if extra support could be helpful? In this episode of The Moving On Method®, Michelle Dempsey Multack is joined by, Stephen Nixon, the founder of Talking Parents. Together, they discuss the importance of communication for co-parents, the challenges of co-parenting, and how Talking Parents can help improve communication. They will also cover: The importance of healthy communication between co-parents How using a communication tool can help minimize conflict What to do when there is a new partner in the picture. What may or may not be used in legal proceedings AND MORE Stephen Nixon is the Founder of TalkingParents and a 2007 graduate of the Florida State University College of Law. Stephen worked as an Assistant State Attorney and Assistant Public Defender in Florida's First Judicial Circuit and as a solo/small firm practitioner prior to founding TalkingParents. Stephen is passionate about the intersection of law and technology and how TalkingParents can improve the lives of co-parents and their children while also increasing judicial efficiency.   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Episode 58 of the "Everything Except The Law" podcast has arrived! This time we're speaking with Jordan Ostroff, the Managing Partner at Driven Law and author of "Love Your Law Firm : A Roadmap to the Law Firm You Always Wanted".In this episode, Jordan and host Nick Werker discuss being intentional about what you want from your legal career, mapping out your ideal schedule, building up a strong referral network and much more!About our guest: A true Floridian, Jordan Ostroff grew up in South Florida; and graduated from The University of Central Florida and Barry University, Dwayne O. Andreas School of Law. His first “real law job” was for the State of Florida as an Assistant State Attorney. Jordan, along with his better half and fellow attorney, Heather Trick, opened up Jordan Law; a PI law firm located in Orlando, Florida in 2015.After losing a substantial amount of money on marketing agencies that didn't understand how to market a law firm properly, Jordan buckled down, learned the basics and put into practice as he kept learning more and more. He then partnered up with some of the best marketing minds to form something totally new and different, a firm built for lawyers, by lawyers. That takes the long view to drive the most success for his fellow attorneys, and hopefully change some lives for the better.Today, Jordan has no student loans, and his firm is a successful, multi-million dollar firm. He oversees over a dozen people, and works only 3 days a week. Buy "Love Your Law Firm" here: https://tinyurl.com/ythhc5nrConnect further with Jordan here: https://www.jordanostroff.com/Subscribe to the Answering Legal Channel so you never miss an episode of Everything Except the Law! Check out audio versions of the show on Apple Podcasts, Spotify and Anchor. Learn more about the show here: http://ow.ly/Eni250LekLgInterested in learning more about Answering Legal? Book an appointment to speak with us here: http://ow.ly/LSUq30sjviNYou can also give us a call at 631-400-8000 or go to www.answeringlegal.comThis podcast is produced and edited by Joe Galotti. You can reach Joe via email at joe@answeringlegal.com.

IT'S HERE: STS HARDCOVER BOOK SIGNED COPIES FROM JOEL AND KARM: https://premierecollectibles.com/waldmanSTS Book on Audible: Https://www.audible.com/pd/Surviving-...STS Book on Amazon: Https://www.amazon.com/shop/surviving...STS Merch Store: https://www.bonfire.com/store/sts-store/STS Patreon: Https://patreon.com/SurvivingTheSurvivorSTS Website: https://survivingthesurvivor.com/#STSNation, Welcome to another episode of Surviving The Survivor, the podcast that brings you the #BestGuests in all of True Crime… The trial for Karen Read, the Massachusetts woman who is accused in the 2022 death of her Boston police officer boyfriend, is underway with Day 2 of testimony. Read, 43, of Mansfield, is charged with running down John O'Keefe, her Boston police officer boyfriend, and leaving him to die in a blizzard in the town of Canton on Jan. 29, 2022. She has pleaded not guilty to charges of second-degree murder, motor vehicle manslaughter, and leaving the scene of a collision in connection with O'Keefe's death. #BestGuests: Tim Dodd is a 1981 graduate of Georgetown University (Magna Cum Laude, Phi Beta Kappa) and a 1984 graduate of Suffolk University, School of Law. Attorney Dodd has handled a wide variety of legal matters in his 37 years of active private practice, including extensive personal injury representation and litigation, family court matters, extensive criminal matters, DUI and refusal trials, general business litigation, zoning matters, administrative law, arbitrations and litigation. Julia Jenae is a legal correspondent for Court TV where she covers some of the most riveting trials in the nation. Julia is a three-time EMMY award recipient for investigative reports. The stories she enjoys the most are those where journalism and the law intersect because her background is in both.Darryl Cohen is an Entertainment and Criminal Defense attorney, is a partner of Cohen, Cooper, Estep & Whiteman, LLC, and previously partner with Katz, Smith & Cohen in Atlanta, Georgia. He is a former Assistant State Attorney in Miami, Dade County, Florida, and Assistant District Attorney in Atlanta, Fulton County, Georgia #KarenRead #Boston #Canton #cantoncoverup #criminaljustice #trial #truecrimecommunity #crime_news #JusticeforJohnOkeefe #newsupdate #murdermystery

IT'S HERE: STS HARDCOVER BOOK SIGNED COPIES FROM JOEL AND KARM: https://premierecollectibles.com/waldmanSTS Book on Audible: Https://www.audible.com/pd/Surviving-...STS Book on Amazon: Https://www.amazon.com/shop/surviving...STS Merch Store: https://www.bonfire.com/store/sts-store/STS Patreon: Https://patreon.com/SurvivingTheSurvivorSTS Website: https://survivingthesurvivor.com/#STSNation, Welcome to another episode of Surviving The Survivor, the podcast that brings you the #BestGuests in all of True Crime… The trial for Karen Read, the Massachusetts woman who is accused in the 2022 death of her Boston police officer boyfriend, is underway with Day 2 of testimony. Read, 43, of Mansfield, is charged with running down John O'Keefe, her Boston police officer boyfriend, and leaving him to die in a blizzard in the town of Canton on Jan. 29, 2022. She has pleaded not guilty to charges of second-degree murder, motor vehicle manslaughter, and leaving the scene of a collision in connection with O'Keefe's death. #BestGuests: Since 1985, Richard Gabriel has been a leader in the field of jury research, jury selection and litigation communication with experience in more than 1,500 trials in both the civil and criminal arenas across the country. Some of his big cases include Aaron Hernandez , Casey Anthony, O.J. Simpson, Phil Spector, Enron, Whitewater, Kwame Kilpatrick, Heidi Fleiss, and numerous other high profile civil and criminal matters. Richard is also the author of Acquittal: An Insider Reveals the Stories and Strategies Behind Today's Most Infamous Verdicts Meghan Sacks is a full Professor of Criminology and the Graduate Program Director at Fairleigh Dickinson University. She teaches classes including Women and Crime, Serial Killers, and Crime Policy.   Amy and Meghan co-host two podcasts: Women and Crime and Direct Appeal …NOW IN SEASON 2 Darryl Cohen is an Entertainment and Criminal Defense attorney, is a partner of Cohen, Cooper, Estep & Whiteman, LLC, and previously partner with Katz, Smith & Cohen in Atlanta, Georgia. He is a former Assistant State Attorney in Miami, Dade County, Florida, and Assistant District Attorney in Atlanta, Fulton County, Georgia. His Entertainment practice includes representation of television anchors, actors, photographers, models, and talent agencies. Further, he is involved with numerous syndicated television programs. As a criminal defense lawyer, he has represented the entire spectrum of clients for over thirty years. Many of his clients and cases are high profile entertainment related cases covered by the national media. #KarenRead #Turtleboy #AidanKearney #DavidYanetti #AlanJackson #JenMcCabe #BrianAlbert #MichaelProctor #TrueCrime #TrueCrimeCommunity #Canton #CantonCoverup #truecrimecommunity #crime_news #murdermystery #truecrimepodcast #crimestory #truestory

Biden's asylum order, intentional community, and the criminalization of clergy sexual misconduct This week on The Bulletin, producer and moderator Clarissa Moll welcomes Ashley Hales and Ekemeni Uwan for a conversation about President Biden's new asylum order, our fascination with intentional community, and the criminalization of clergy sexual misconduct. Special guests Bri Stensrud, John Shelton, and Boz Tchividjian join the discussion for an episode that will inform and encourage you toward kingdom thought and action. Today's Guests: With her husband, Ashley Hales is the co-founder of The Willowbrae Institute, a new think tank researching the intersection of Christianity and the common good in America. Ashley hosts the The Cartographers Podcast and is the author of Finding Holy in the Suburbs, A Spacious Life, and the forthcoming Bible study on the Sermon on the Mount, A Fruitful Life. She produces The Russell Moore Show for CT Media. Ekemini Uwan is a public theologian, international human rights activist, and co-author of Truth's Table: Black Women's Musings on Life, Love, and Liberation. She co-hosts the award-winning podcast Truth's Table and Get In The Word With Truth's Table. Uwan is a 2024 fellow at The Aspen Institute where she serves as the Special Advisor for The Aspen Institute's Racial Justice and Religion Collective. Her writings have been published in The Atlantic, The Washington Post, The Huffington Post Black Voices, and Hallmark Mahogany. As one who is passionate about theology, Ekemini has a fierce commitment to the gospel and its implications for issues pertaining to reparations, racial injustice, anti-black racism, and white supremacy. John Shelton is the policy director for Advancing American Freedom. He received degrees from Duke Divinity School and the University of Virginia. Bri Stensrud is an author, human dignity advocate, and the Director of Women of Welcome. Her passion is to equip the Church to engage more consistently and tangibly in holistic human dignity issues. Bri holds a Masters of Biblical & Theological Studies from Dallas Theological Seminary and has authored two books: Start with Welcome: The Journey toward a Confident and Compassionate Immigration Conversation, and a children's book: The Biggest Best Light: Shining God's Light into the World Around You. Boz Tchividjian, Esq. is an experienced litigator who has dedicated his career to empowering survivors of sexual abuse, sexual assault, and sexual harassment to step forward and seek justice against perpetrators and the institutions legally responsible for their trauma. Prior to becoming a civil litigator, Boz served as an Assistant State Attorney in the 7th Judicial Circuit of Florida, where he created the first Sex Crimes Division at the Office of the State Attorney and served as Division Chief. Boz is also the Founder and former Executive Director of GRACE (Godly Response to Abuse in the Christian Environment), an internationally recognized non-profit organization that equips faith-based organizations with the tools they need to correctly respond to allegations of sexual abuse and educates them on how to create safeguards to protect children and other vulnerable people within their communities. Boz is the co-author of The Child Safeguarding Policy Guide, a handbook for faith-based non-profit organizations looking to improve their child safeguarding policies.  “The Bulletin” is a production of Christianity Today Producer: Clarissa Moll Associate Producer: Leslie Thompson Editing and Mix: TJ Hester Music: Dan Phelps Executive Producers: Erik Petrik and Mike Cosper Senior Producer: Matt Stevens Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

In today's episode of "Journey to Esquire," we pass the mic to Elpiniki Roussos, affectionately known to friends and colleagues as Nikki. Born and bred in the sunny climes of Nassau, Bahamas, Nikki's journey took a significant turn when she moved to Tampa, Florida, setting the stage for her remarkable career in law. Join us as we explore Nikki's academic odyssey, beginning with her initial steps at earning an associate degree in paralegal studies. We'll then journey alongside her as she pursues and secures a bachelor's degree in political science from the University of Central Florida. But Nikki's quest for legal mastery didn't stop there; she furthered her education by obtaining a Juris Doctorate from WMU Thomas M. Cooley Law School in April 2023. Nikki's law school experience was nothing short of dynamic. She played a pivotal role as the parliamentarian for the Student Bar Association for three years, honed her legal skills as a member of the Mock Trial Board, and showcased her litigation prowess in competitions, including the prestigious National Chester Bedell Mock Trial Competition. Nikki has applied her wealth of knowledge and experience in her role as an Assistant State Attorney in the Juvenile sector of Hillsborough County. Her journey from the Bahamas to the courtroom of the 13th Judicial Circuit is a testament to the dedication, resilience, and passion required to navigate the path to becoming an Esquire. Social Media Website: www.journeytoesquire.com Email: info@journeytoesquire.com LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/dive... Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/JourneytoEsq/ YT: https://youtube.com/@journeytoesquire Twitter: @JourneytoEsq                 https://mobile.twitter.com/journeytoesq Instagram: @JourneytoEsq  https://www.instagram.com/journeytoesq/ www.journeytoesquire.com info@journeytoesquire.com @JourneytoEsquire --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/journey-to-esquire/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/journey-to-esquire/support

Samuel J. Cundari, a 30-year-old former assistant state's attorney from DuPage County, Illinois, has been charged with transmitting threats of violence over social media, according to a May 24 press release from the U.S. attorney's office for the Central District of Illinois. Cundari is accused of posting threats on X, formerly known as Twitter, in March and May. These threats included graphic and violent language directed at state representatives involved in gun-control legislation and an implied bomb threat in response to an advertisement for Springfield's PrideFest. One of Cundari's posts, dated March, tagged two Illinois state representatives, the Illinois attorney general, three gun-control groups, and a volunteer with one of the groups. The post read, “Our patience grows short with you. The day we put your kids feet first into a woodchipper so we can enjoy their last few screams is coming.” Democratic Illinois State Rep. Bob Morgan, a sponsor of the assault weapons ban, confirmed to the Chicago Sun-Times that he was among the targeted lawmakers. The threats were serious enough to prompt a federal investigation. In May, Cundari made another alarming post, which appeared to be a response to an advertisement for Springfield's PrideFest. It read, “I sure hope NOBODY leaves a pressure cooker filled with ball bearings, glass and nails, filled with diesel fuel and fertilizer, with the over pressure safety valve disabled, near a natural gas line. That would be VERY sad and VERY unfortunate.” According to an affidavit by an FBI agent, Cundari admitted to making these posts, claiming they were jokes intended to “get the goat” of another user. Despite his intent, the nature of the threats led to significant legal consequences. A spokesperson for the DuPage County state's attorney's office told Law360 that Cundari was fired upon the discovery of the allegations. He had been working in the office's misdemeanor division for 16 months. “These types of threats are taken very seriously, and we will not tolerate this kind of behavior from anyone, especially those in positions of public trust,” said a spokesperson from the DuPage County state's attorney's office. The case has garnered significant attention from local media, including the Chicago Sun-Times and Law360, highlighting the gravity of the charges and the broader implications for public safety and trust in public officials. Cundari now faces a federal charge of transmitting a threat to injure another person in interstate commerce. If convicted, he could face severe penalties under federal law. #SamuelJCundari #DuPageCounty #GunControl #SocialMediaThreats #FederalCharges #BobMorgan #SpringfieldPrideFest  Want to listen to ALL of our podcasts AD-FREE? Subscribe through APPLE PODCASTS, and try it for three days free: https://tinyurl.com/ycw626tj Follow Our Other Cases: https://www.truecrimetodaypod.com The latest on The Downfall of Diddy, The Trial of Karen Read, The Murder Of Maddie Soto, Catching the Long Island Serial Killer, Awaiting Admission: BTK's Unconfessed Crimes, Delphi Murders: Inside the Crime, Chad & Lori Daybell, The Murder of Ana Walshe, Alex Murdaugh, Bryan Kohberger, Lucy Letby, Kouri Richins, Malevolent Mormon Mommys, Justice for Harmony Montgomery, The Murder of Stephen Smith, The Murder of Madeline Kingsbury, and much more! Listen at https://www.truecrimetodaypod.com

Samuel J. Cundari, a 30-year-old former assistant state's attorney from DuPage County, Illinois, has been charged with transmitting threats of violence over social media, according to a May 24 press release from the U.S. attorney's office for the Central District of Illinois. Cundari is accused of posting threats on X, formerly known as Twitter, in March and May. These threats included graphic and violent language directed at state representatives involved in gun-control legislation and an implied bomb threat in response to an advertisement for Springfield's PrideFest. One of Cundari's posts, dated March, tagged two Illinois state representatives, the Illinois attorney general, three gun-control groups, and a volunteer with one of the groups. The post read, “Our patience grows short with you. The day we put your kids feet first into a woodchipper so we can enjoy their last few screams is coming.” Democratic Illinois State Rep. Bob Morgan, a sponsor of the assault weapons ban, confirmed to the Chicago Sun-Times that he was among the targeted lawmakers. The threats were serious enough to prompt a federal investigation. In May, Cundari made another alarming post, which appeared to be a response to an advertisement for Springfield's PrideFest. It read, “I sure hope NOBODY leaves a pressure cooker filled with ball bearings, glass and nails, filled with diesel fuel and fertilizer, with the over pressure safety valve disabled, near a natural gas line. That would be VERY sad and VERY unfortunate.” According to an affidavit by an FBI agent, Cundari admitted to making these posts, claiming they were jokes intended to “get the goat” of another user. Despite his intent, the nature of the threats led to significant legal consequences. A spokesperson for the DuPage County state's attorney's office told Law360 that Cundari was fired upon the discovery of the allegations. He had been working in the office's misdemeanor division for 16 months. “These types of threats are taken very seriously, and we will not tolerate this kind of behavior from anyone, especially those in positions of public trust,” said a spokesperson from the DuPage County state's attorney's office. The case has garnered significant attention from local media, including the Chicago Sun-Times and Law360, highlighting the gravity of the charges and the broader implications for public safety and trust in public officials. Cundari now faces a federal charge of transmitting a threat to injure another person in interstate commerce. If convicted, he could face severe penalties under federal law. #SamuelJCundari #DuPageCounty #GunControl #SocialMediaThreats #FederalCharges #BobMorgan #SpringfieldPrideFest    Want to listen to ALL of our podcasts AD-FREE? Subscribe through APPLE PODCASTS, and try it for three days free: https://tinyurl.com/ycw626tj Follow Our Other Cases: https://www.truecrimetodaypod.com The latest on The Downfall of Diddy, The Trial of Karen Read, The Murder Of Maddie Soto, Catching the Long Island Serial Killer, Awaiting Admission: BTK's Unconfessed Crimes, Delphi Murders: Inside the Crime, Chad & Lori Daybell, The Murder of Ana Walshe, Alex Murdaugh, Bryan Kohberger, Lucy Letby, Kouri Richins, Malevolent Mormon Mommys, Justice for Harmony Montgomery, The Murder of Stephen Smith, The Murder of Madeline Kingsbury, and much more! Listen at https://www.truecrimetodaypod.com 

Samuel J. Cundari, a 30-year-old former assistant state's attorney from DuPage County, Illinois, has been charged with transmitting threats of violence over social media, according to a May 24 press release from the U.S. attorney's office for the Central District of Illinois. Cundari is accused of posting threats on X, formerly known as Twitter, in March and May. These threats included graphic and violent language directed at state representatives involved in gun-control legislation and an implied bomb threat in response to an advertisement for Springfield's PrideFest. One of Cundari's posts, dated March, tagged two Illinois state representatives, the Illinois attorney general, three gun-control groups, and a volunteer with one of the groups. The post read, “Our patience grows short with you. The day we put your kids feet first into a woodchipper so we can enjoy their last few screams is coming.” Democratic Illinois State Rep. Bob Morgan, a sponsor of the assault weapons ban, confirmed to the Chicago Sun-Times that he was among the targeted lawmakers. The threats were serious enough to prompt a federal investigation. In May, Cundari made another alarming post, which appeared to be a response to an advertisement for Springfield's PrideFest. It read, “I sure hope NOBODY leaves a pressure cooker filled with ball bearings, glass and nails, filled with diesel fuel and fertilizer, with the over pressure safety valve disabled, near a natural gas line. That would be VERY sad and VERY unfortunate.” According to an affidavit by an FBI agent, Cundari admitted to making these posts, claiming they were jokes intended to “get the goat” of another user. Despite his intent, the nature of the threats led to significant legal consequences. A spokesperson for the DuPage County state's attorney's office told Law360 that Cundari was fired upon the discovery of the allegations. He had been working in the office's misdemeanor division for 16 months. “These types of threats are taken very seriously, and we will not tolerate this kind of behavior from anyone, especially those in positions of public trust,” said a spokesperson from the DuPage County state's attorney's office. The case has garnered significant attention from local media, including the Chicago Sun-Times and Law360, highlighting the gravity of the charges and the broader implications for public safety and trust in public officials. Cundari now faces a federal charge of transmitting a threat to injure another person in interstate commerce. If convicted, he could face severe penalties under federal law. #SamuelJCundari #DuPageCounty #GunControl #SocialMediaThreats #FederalCharges #BobMorgan #SpringfieldPrideFest Want to listen to ALL of our podcasts AD-FREE? Subscribe through APPLE PODCASTS, and try it for three days free: https://tinyurl.com/ycw626tj Follow Our Other Cases: https://www.truecrimetodaypod.com The latest on The Downfall of Diddy, The Trial of Karen Read, The Murder Of Maddie Soto, Catching the Long Island Serial Killer, Awaiting Admission: BTK's Unconfessed Crimes, Delphi Murders: Inside the Crime, Chad & Lori Daybell, The Murder of Ana Walshe, Alex Murdaugh, Bryan Kohberger, Lucy Letby, Kouri Richins, Malevolent Mormon Mommys, Justice for Harmony Montgomery, The Murder of Stephen Smith, The Murder of Madeline Kingsbury, and much more! Listen at https://www.truecrimetodaypod.com

In today's episode of "Journey to Esquire," we pass the mic to Jessica Hannaford. Jessica Hannaford is an attorney, podcast host, mother, wife, fitness junkie, and business owner who currently works as the Disaster Relief Pro Bono Coordinator at Bay Area Legal Services, Inc. Jessica studied Broadcast News at the University of South Florida prior to attending Florida Coastal School of Law. Upon admission to the Florida Bar in 2015, Jessica worked  in the 12th Judicial Circuit as an Assistant Public Defender as well as an Assistant State Attorney. Jessica got sober in law school through the Florida Lawyers Assistance Program, and credits all of her success to her sobriety. She is passionate about mentoring and helping others use their gifts to make the world a better place.   Email - Jessicahannaford22@gmail.com If you're struggling with substance abuse visit the Florida Lawyers Assistance Program - fla-lap.org - for assistance. Fun Fact: Part of the reason I went into criminal defense was because of a speeding ticket my brother received when I was 14. Social Media Website: www.journeytoesquire.com Email: info@journeytoesquire.com LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/dive... Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/JourneytoEsq/ YT: https://youtube.com/@journeytoesquire Twitter: @JourneytoEsq                 https://mobile.twitter.com/journeytoesq Instagram: @JourneytoEsq  https://www.instagram.com/journeytoesq/ www.journeytoesquire.com info@journeytoesquire.com @JourneytoEsquire --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/journey-to-esquire/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/journey-to-esquire/support

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IT'S HERE: STS HARDCOVER BOOK SIGNED COPIES FROM JOEL AND KARM:  https://premierecollectibles.com/waldmanPre-Order Joel's Book: Https://amzn.to/48GwbLxConnect with STS, join our Patreon: Https://patreon.com/SurvivingTheSurvivorSTS Website: https://survivingthesurvivor.com/STS Merch Store: https://www.bonfire.com/store/sts-store/#STSNation, Welcome to another episode of Surviving The Survivor, the podcast that brings you the #BestGuests in all of #TrueCrime… Karen Read, the girlfriend of late Boston Police Officer John O'Keefe, has been accused of backing over her boyfriend in Canton, MA, and leaving him to die in a January 2022 blizzard. She says she wasn't even there when it happened. Is she being framed? But, more importantly, what has made this story so polarizing? #BestGuests: Melanie Little has 25+ years as a trial lawyer in NY state and federal courts; Lead attorney for the plaintiffs in the clergy sex abuse cases as depicted in the film "Spotlight"; Frequent guest as legal analyst on live true crime podcasts; Real courtroom experience as a practicing attorney, requiring the use of real life improv skills; Multiple local and national television news interviews for various cases and commentary; Mother of 5. Firm grasp of complex medical and legal terminology. Darryl Cohen is an Entertainment and Criminal Defense attorney, is a partner of Cohen, Cooper, Estep & Whiteman, LLC, and previously partner with Katz, Smith & Cohen in Atlanta, Georgia. He is a former Assistant State Attorney in Miami, Dade County, Florida, and Assistant District Attorney in Atlanta, Fulton County, Georgia. His Entertainment practice includes representation of television anchors, actors, photographers, models, and talent agencies. Further, he is involved with numerous syndicated television programs. As a criminal defense lawyer, he has represented the entire spectrum of clients for over thirty years. Many of his clients and cases are high profile entertainment related cases covered by the national media. Meghan Sacks is a full Professor of Criminology and the Graduate Program Director at Fairleigh Dickinson University. She teaches classes including Women and Crime, Serial Killers, and Crime Policy.   Amy and Meghan co-host two podcasts: Women and Crime and Direct Appeal

About Our GuestAlyssa D. Honickman is the owner and operator of a boutique law firm that focuses on meeting clients' needs in Family Law and domestic violence cases in South Florida. Ms. Honickman is an experienced trial attorney and will fight for her clients' rights throughout the litigation process. She encourages settlement of her cases without court intervention but is prepared to litigate her cases at trial in the event settlement is impossible. Ms. Honickman's patience and ability to effectively communicate with her clients and opposing counsel put her clients at ease during the difficult process of family litigation. Alyssa Honickman was born and raised in Ocala, Florida and attended Florida schools for education. Ms. Honickman graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in Sociology Summa Cum Laude from the University of Florida. She continued her studies at Stetson College of Law and graduated Cum Laude with her Juris Doctorate with a concentration in Trial Advocacy. She began her legal career working as an Assistant State Attorney for the Broward County State Attorney's Office. Ms. Honickman has tried over 150 jury trials including misdemeanors, felonies, and domestic violence cases and has tried over 80 family law trials. Alyssa Honickman is an active member of her community. She is a member of the Broward County Bar Association's Family Law Section and Broward County Bar Association's Young Lawyers Division. Ms. Honickman currently is an active member of the Florida Bar Family Law Section. She is actively involved with the Florida Bar and participates in their annual and semi-annual conventions. Notable Links: Official website: https://honickmanlaw.com/Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100063680598564Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/Alyssa_honickman/LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/law-offices-of-alyssa-d.-honickman-p.a./about/   **********  "Women Winning Divorce" is a radio show and podcast hosted by Heather Quick: Attorney, Entrepreneur, Author and Founder of Florida Women's Law Group, the only divorce firm for women, by women. Each week Heather sits down with innovative professionals and leaders who are focused on how you can be your best self, before, during or after divorce. In these conversations, we are looking at how women can win at life.  With our guests, we enjoy the opportunity to explore ways all women can win and enhance their life, no matter where they are in their journey, because divorce is just point in life, not the end and not what defines you, rather it can be a catalyst for growth. Come join the conversation on social media, and join our Facebook group, Women Winning Divorce and send comments and suggestions, we want to bring you content that helps move your life forward.Women Winning Divorce Podcast Series https://www.womenwinningdivorce.com/Women Winning Divorce Facebook Group https://www.facebook.com/groups/685277376560289Florida Women's Law Grouphttps://www.floridawomenslawgroup.com/Divorce 101 Online Course: https://heather-quick.mykajabi.com/   Thank you for listening. Please share the podcast with your friends and colleagues. Send your questions, comments, and feedback to marketing@4womenlaw.com Women Winning Divorce is supported by Florida Women's Law Group Disclaimer: This podcast is for informational purposes only and is not an advertisement for legal services.  The information provided on this podcast is not intended to be legal advice.  You should not rely on what you hear on this podcast as legal advice. If you have a legal issue, please contact a lawyer.  The views and opinions expressed by the hosts and guests are solely those of the individuals and do not represent the views or opinions of the firms or organizations with which they are affiliated or the views or opinions of this podcast's advertisers.  This podcast is available for private, non-commercial use only.  Any editing, reproduction, or redistribution of this podcast for commercial use or monetary gain without the expressed, written consent of the podcast's creator is prohibited.   

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In this episode, we pass the mic to Zachariah Wade to discuss building community in law school and as a lawyer through voluntary bar associations. Attorney Zachariah Wade is a born-and-raised Floridian who grew up in Orange and Marion Counties. After obtaining his bachelor's degree from Florida A&M University, he earned his law degree from the Stetson University College of Law. During law school, Zachariah became a member of the #1 Trial Team in the nation and competed across the United States. After law school, Zachariah became an Advocacy Skills Trainer for the Stetson Trial Team and now fills the position of Adjunct Professor of Trial Advocacy with the College of Law. Prior to joining our practice, Zachariah served the people of Pinellas County as an Assistant State Attorney. In his role as an ASA, Zachariah earned his stripes in the courtroom and has handled cases that include drug crimes, domestic violence, DUI/BUI, violent crimes, sexual batteries, traffic fatalities, and murder. Fun Fact - During college, he was a member of FAMU's Incomparable Marching "100" as a member of the percussion section drumline. Social Media Website: www.journeytoesquire.com Email: info@journeytoesquire.com LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/dive... Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/JourneytoEsq/ YT: https://youtube.com/@journeytoesquire Twitter: @JourneytoEsq                 https://mobile.twitter.com/journeytoesq Instagram: @JourneytoEsq  https://www.instagram.com/journeytoesq/ www.journeytoesquire.com info@journeytoesquire.com @JourneytoEsquire --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/journey-to-esquire/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/journey-to-esquire/support

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In this episode, we pass the mic to Devan Hardaway to discuss pursuing persistence on the journey to esquire. She is an Assistant State Attorney at Florida's 13th Judicial Circuit. She has worked in that office for several years in different capacities and in different divisions. Ms. Hardaway is a Florida Supreme Court Mediator certified in County and Civil Circuit Mediation. She is also a volunteer Guardian Ad Litem, writer, and photographer and was, at one time, a music teacher. She discovered a love of criminal law and prosecution when she began her law school journey. Before becoming an attorney, she worked as a teacher and in other positions. Devan attended WMU Cooley Law School and Fort Valley State University, where she obtained a Bachelor of Arts (BA), English Writing and Political Science Bachelor of Arts (BA), English Writing and Political Science. She participated in Presidential Scholars, was a Student Ambassador, Teaching Assistant, Academic and Athletics Tutor, WIN Lab Writing Editor. Fun fact- she took the bar exam seven times before she passed! www.journeytoesquire.com info@journeytoesquire.com @JourneytoEsquire --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/journey-to-esquire/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/journey-to-esquire/support

In this episode, we pass the mic to Katharine Haddad to discuss allyship Katharine Haddad is an Assistant State Attorney at State Attorney's Office, 13th Judicial Circuit. She is the President-Elect of the Young Lawyers Section of the St. Petersburg Bar Association. She graduated from the University of Florida - Fredric G. Levin College of Law University of Florida - Fredric G. Levin College of Law in 2018, where she was on the • Moot Court Team and received her Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) in History in 2017. Fun fact: I used to tutor math, ranging from algebra to calculus! St. Petersburg Bar Association Young Lawyers Section: https://www.stpetebar.com/page/YLS --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/journey-to-esquire/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/journey-to-esquire/support

In this episode, we pass the mic to Abigail Dean to discuss joining the board. Abigail Dean is an Assistant State Attorney at the 13th Judicial Circuit. She obtained by Juris Doctorate at Stetson University College of Law. Her undergraduate institution was the University of South Florida, where she obtained a Bachelor's Degree in Business Administration. Her favorite hobbies are reading books, volunteering, and enjoying the company with friends and family. Fun fact: Her favorite thing to watch are 90s comedy shows. www.journeytoesquire.com info@journeytoesquire.com @JourneytoEsquire --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/journey-to-esquire/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/journey-to-esquire/support

Daniel “Danny” G. O'Byrne, an associate with the firm, practices in the areas of general civil litigation, insurance defense, automotive and trucking accidents, uninsured motorist cases, premises liability, and medical malpractice defense. Danny joins the firm with valuable trial experience. Before entering private practice, Danny was an Assistant State Attorney where he tried several cases involving DUI and domestic battery cases. Danny was born in Orlando and moved to Jacksonville at the age of sixteen. Danny earned his B.S., magna cum laude, in Political Science and History from Florida State University in 2017. He then attended the University of Florida Levin College of Law, earning his J.D. in 2020. Throughout law school, Danny was the Vice President of Intramural Competition for the UF Law Trial Team. He competed in three consecutive Trial Advocacy Competitions both locally and nationally. As a 2L and 3L student, Danny was General Editor of the Florida Journal of Law and Public Policy. During the summer, Danny interned at the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Middle District of Florida in Jacksonville. Danny is a proud Bishop Kenny graduate, and hails from the Trombone Section of the FSU Marching Chiefs. Danny is an active member of the Jacksonville Bar Association and the Federalist Society. Outside of work, Danny enjoys hiking, movies, traveling, and attending “the big four” of Jacksonville Sports: Jaguars, Icemen, Jumbo Shrimp, and Ospreys. Join the conversation today @Jacksonville Bar Association

Jeena Cho is a Legal Mindfulness Consultant and Coach. Prior to becoming a fulltime mindfulness coach in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, Jeena was an Assistant State Attorney at the Hillsborough County State Attorney's Office and a longtime partner at JC Law Group PC, where she practiced bankruptcy law in California. Jeena is co-author of The Anxious Lawyer - an 8 Week Guide to a Joyful and Satisfying Law Practice. She also frequently contributes to publications such as Forbes, Bloombreg BNA, and Above the Law, where she shares her views, perspective, and tips on mindfulness, meditation, and so much more. Jenna graduated from the University of Buffalo in 2000 and the University of Buffalo School of Law in 2003.Connect with Jeena on LinkedIn.Follow Jeena on Twitter.Learn more about and purchase your copy of The Anxious Lawyer: An 8-Week Guide to a Happier, Saner Law Practice Using Meditation by Jeena Cho and Karen Gifford.Try Jeena's meditation that we shared with you in the Due Diligence portion of the Episode HERE. Learn more about Jeena Cho, her work and how she may be able to help you and/or your organization develop a mindfulness practice by checking out Jeena's website.  Find us online at https://www.personaljxpod.comFind us on Twitter @PersonalJxPodPersonal Jurisdiction is powered and distributed with Simplecast. We use Riverside.FM to record our episodes. Our logos were designed by Lizzie L. O'Connor.Personal Jurisdiction is edited by Scott Donnell at Run and Drum Media https://www.runanddrummedia.comOur Theme Song is Pleasant Porridge by Kevin MacLeod.Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/7614-pleasant-porridgeLicense: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license

Choosing a divorce attorney is one of the biggest decisions you'll have to make early in the process. You'll likely receive input from friends, family and even the neighbor down the street. You've probably heard you need a "bulldog" attorney, but do you? This week, experienced divorce attorney Alyssa Honickman joins Michelle Dempsey-Multack to educate listeners on the red and green flags when looking for an attorney. Alyssa discusses: Setting emotions aside when finding a divorce attorney The myths of family law What does "winning" mean in terms of divorce Why an attorney promising an outcome is a red flag Green flags such as putting the children first AND MUCH MORE! Alyssa D. Honickman focuses on Family Law cases and domestic violence cases. Alyssa D. Honickman is the owner and operator of this boutique law firm that focuses on meeting client's needs. Ms. Honickman is an experienced trial attorney and will fight for her clients' rights throughout the litigation process. She encourages settlement of her cases without court intervention but is prepared to litigate her cases at trial in the event settlement is impossible. Ms. Honickman's patience and ability to effectively communicate with her clients and opposing counsel put her clients at ease during the difficult process of family litigation. Alyssa Honickman was born and raised in Ocala, Florida and attended Florida schools for education. Ms. Honickman graduated with a Bachelor's of Arts in Sociology Summa Cum Laude from the University of Florida. She continued her studies at Stetson College of Law and graduated Cum Laude with her Juris Doctorate with a concentration in Trial Advocacy. She began her legal career working as an Assistant State Attorney for the Broward County State Attorney's Office. Ms. Honickman has tried over 150 jury trials including misdemeanors, felonies, and domestic violence cases and has tried over 80 family law trials. Alyssa Honickman is an active member of her community. She is a member of the Broward County Bar Association's Family Law Section a Member of Kidside. Ms. Honickman currently is an active member of the Florida Bar Family Law Section. She is actively involved with the Florida Bar and participates in their annual and semi-annual conventions. Alyssa Honickman is admitted to practice in all Florida State courts and Federal Court for the Southern District of Florida. Active member of the Broward County Bar Association, the American Heart Association, co-creator of Confident Chaos Podcast, Florida Bar Family Law Section, and contributes to the March of Dimes , Saint Judge's Children's Hospital, and the Fraternal Order of Police. www.honickmanlaw.com  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Hillary and Tina interview attorney Hillary Cassel, candidate for Florida House, District 101. Hillary Cassel is a proud Democrat, mental health care advocate, and co-founder of the law firm Cassel & Cassel, P.A. Beginning her legal career as an Assistant State Attorney at the Broward State Attorney's Office, Hillary witnessed the devastating inequality of our justice system firsthand. For the last seven years, she has represented struggling families against large insurance companies in their time of need. Now, she is running for the Florida House of Representatives because she knows that we need strong Democratic leadership in Tallahassee. Websites Hillary for Florida Website (https://hillaryforflorida.com/) Namaste the Stigma Away (https://www.namastethestigma.com/) Special Guest: Hillary Cassel .

In this episode, we share our thoughts on the Nikolas Cruz verdict and invite Michael Riley, Kaitlin's father and former Assistant State Attorney in South Florida, to weigh in on the jury's decision to reject the death penalty and what it means for school safety moving forward. On February 14,  2018, Nikolas Cruz killed 17 innocents at Marjorie Stoneman Douglas highschool in Parkland Florida.  As part of the Code Red Foundation, we are on mission to make our children's lives and schools safer in response to the mass shootings that have unfortunately become the new normal of our society. We encourage you to watch our film, https://codereddoc.com/watchnow/ and join us at the code red foundation, https://coderedyotn.org/ , to take action now in order to preserve the future of the youth of our nation. 

Taryn G. Sinatra Taryn G. Sinatra, Esq., is a Florida Bar Board Certified Marital and Family Attorney and Florida Supreme Court Certified Family Mediator. Ms. Sinatra is the founder and owner of the Law Office of Taryn G. Sinatra, P.A., founded in 2010. She dedicates her practice to serving the families of South Florida by handling marital and family law matters exclusively. Ms. Sinatra has practiced family law exclusively since 2009 and has handled a diverse range of family law matters, from simple uncontested matters to high conflict and complex matters. She is highly regarded by colleagues and the judiciary alike. With nearly fifteen years of experience as a litigation attorney, Ms. Sinatra is uniquely qualified to handle the many facets of family law, whether sensitive and emotional issues related to children, or complex financial matters related to division of assets, alimony, and support. Involvement in the legal community has been paramount and extensive for Ms. Sinatra. She is a current member and the past President of the South Palm Beach County Florida Association for Women Lawyers, past President of the South Palm Beach County Young Lawyers Section, current member and former Board Member of the South Palm Beach County Bar Association, member and former Co-Chair of the South Palm Beach County Bar Association Family Law Section, a member of the Florida Bar Family Law Section and former Legislation Committee Member, and founding member of the Palm Beach Family Law Inn of Court and current Master. Ms. Sinatra has been honored as the recipient of various accolades including Super Lawyers Rising Star for 2014 and 2015, and Super Lawyer for four years in a row, 2018 -2021, She was honored among her peer as the recipient of the Florida Bar Family Law Section Spotlight Award in 2016, and Top Lawyer in Palm Beach County for 2018 and 2019. Prior to working in the private sector, Ms. Sinatra began her legal career in 2005 as an Assistant State Attorney at the Broward County State Attorney's Office where she was a prosecuting attorney through 2008. Ms. Sinatra graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Central Florida in 2001. She then earned her Juris Doctorate from Nova Southeastern University Shepard Broad Law in 2005. Ms. Sinatra was admitted to the Florida Bar in 2005. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/thefatherstruth/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/thefatherstruth/support

Host Shaunestte Terrell talks with Boz Tchividjian, a fellow attorney who represents sexual abuse survivors in civil courts throughout the US. Their paths crossed when Cohen & Malad, LLP's sexual abuse litigation team co-counseled with Boz on a case here in Indiana. Shaunestte & Boz take a deeper dive into sexual abuse within faith communities. They discuss the impact the trauma of sexual abuse perpetrated by leaders and trusted advisors within a church environment has on victims and what churches can do better to protect & help their communities. This is an important conversation for everyone regardless of religion. About Boz TchividjianBoz is an experienced litigator and has handled hundreds of civil and criminal cases throughout his career. He is a former Assistant State Attorney in the 7th Judicial Circuit of Florida where he created the first Sex Crimes Division at the Office of the State Attorney and served as the Division Chief. Boz is also the Founder and former Executive Director of GRACE (Godly Response to Abuse in the Christian Environment), a nonprofit organization that provides faith-based institutions with the tools they need to correctly respond to allegations of sexual abuse and educates them on how to create safeguards to protect children and vulnerable people within their communities. Twitter: @BozTTwitter: @Netgrace_org

Distracted Drivers Busted Podcast Show # (01) 01-06-22 - Opening Comments // TV Actor, David Koechner, arrested over alleged DUI and Hit and Run-on January 31st New Year's Eve 2021. // Raider Football Player - CB Nate Hobbs - arrested for DUI just after playing a game -- in LV.// Fla. Assistant State Attorney, crashed into a fence, she was arrested for DUI. // Season 8 Show 1 

Jack & Cat chat with Rob Callahan to discuss his experience as an Assistant District Attorney (in some states called Assistant State Attorney) prosecuting cases for child dependency. His experiences across the board as an ADA, and also parent attorney, and also as an attorney for intervening foster parents bring a great deal of knowledge […]

Yvette Reyes is an attorney and a corporate and personal team builder. She has been practicing law in Florida since 1995. She is managing partner of REYES MILLER, a boutique law firm concentrating on all things family, with offices in Coral Gables and Boca Raton. Ms. Reyes is a family law litigator, mediator and consultant and has represented clients throughout the State of Florida from the Panhandle through the Florida Keys.Prior to establishing her private practice, Ms. Reyes served as an Assistant State Attorney in Miami-Dade County between 1995 and 2001. She was involved in the investigation and prosecution of many high-profile domestic violence cases and tried over fifty jury trials, including many domestic violence related homicides. Between 1999 and 2001, she was appointed by Jeb Bush to serve on the Governor's Task Force on Domestic and Sexual Violence and was responsible for training law enforcement on domestic violence issues. She has been a guest speaker at numerous community conferences and appeared on a variety of TV and Radio programs discussing domestic violence and family issues.  Buckle up people! You can find Yvette on FB @YvetteBReyes and at www.reyesmiller.comLet's connect! Subscribe to buckleUp! podcast and follow @nataliaearle on all social media platforms and on FB @thenataliaearleWould you like to be a guest on buckleUp! podcast and share your story? Please email us at buckleupne@gmail.comThis episode is brought to you by Link'd the label  www.shoplinkd.com

Tami Sbar is a leading divorce mediator in Tampa, Florida, but she took a roundabout journey through the law to get there. She started her legal career as an Assistant State Attorney, working in both the domestic violence and the sex crimes divisions, in addition to felony court. She has her badge to prove it.After experiencing her own divorce, she became interested in the practice of family law, and in particular, the value of mediation as a priceless benefit for divorcing couples and their families. Today, she dedicates her time and expertise to divorcing couples full time. This week on the show, she shares some of the intricacies involved with mediation. Do you need a lawyer if you're moving through mediation? How does a mediator change the experience of court? How does a mediator deal with the imbalance of power in relationships? All this and so much more this week from a true expert and practitioner in the field. Links & NotesSbar Mediation

Tami Sbar is a leading divorce mediator in Tampa, Florida, but she took a roundabout journey through the law to get there. She started her legal career as an Assistant State Attorney, working in both the domestic violence and the sex crimes divisions, in addition to felony court. She has her badge to prove it. After experiencing her own divorce, she became interested in the practice of family law, and in particular, the value of mediation as a priceless benefit for divorcing couples and their families. Today, she dedicates her time and expertise to divorcing couples full time. This week on the show, she shares some of the intricacies involved with mediation. Do you need a lawyer if you’re moving through mediation? How does a mediator change the experience of court? How does a mediator deal with the imbalance of power in relationships? All this and so much more this week from a true expert and practitioner in the field. Links & Notes Sbar Mediation

Support the Show:https://www.patreon.com/preacherboys Purchase a Preacher Boys shirt, mask, sticker, or other merch to rep the show! https://www.teepublic.com/user/preacher-boys-podcast_______________________________________________________Purchase a copy of The Child Safeguarding Policy Guide here: https://amzn.to/3dp2Qdu​_______________________________________________________Contact Boz Tchividjian: https://www.landispa.com/attorneys/boz-tchividjian/386-734-3451boz@landispa.com_______________________________________________________An experienced litigator who has handled hundreds of civil and criminal cases, Boz Tchividjian has dedicated his career to empowering survivors of sexual abuse, sexual assault, and sexual harassment to seek justice against perpetrators, as well as employers and other institutions who fail to protect people from abuse. Prior to joining the firm as a civil litigator in 2001, Boz served as an Assistant State Attorney in the 7th Judicial Circuit of Florida, where he created the first Sex Crimes Division at the Office of the State Attorney and served as Division Chief. In that position, Boz personally prosecuted hundreds of sexual victimization cases and supervised the prosecution of thousands more.Boz is the Founder of GRACE, an internationally recognized nonprofit organization that equips religious organizations with the tools they need to correctly respond to allegations of sexual abuse and educates them on how to create safeguards to protect children in their communities. As a renowned expert on sexual abuse, particularly within faith communities, Boz has been widely quoted in media outlets such as The Washington Post, The New York Times, The Huffington Post, and NBC Nightly News.Boz is the co-author of  The Child Safeguarding Policy Guide, a handbook for religious institutions looking to improve their child protection policies. He has also published scholarly articles such as, “Predators and Propensity: The Proper Approach for Determining the Admissibility of Prior Bad Acts Evidence in Child Sexual Abuse Prosecutions” (American Journal of Criminal Law) and “Catching American Sex Offenders Overseas: A Proposal for a Federal Mandated Reporting Law” (UMKC Law Review). Boz also wrote a weekly column for the Religious News Service.Boz also served as a professor at Liberty University School of Law where he taught employment law, criminal law and procedure, and child abuse law. Boz currently serves as an adjunct professor at Stetson University where he teaches employment law and other business law-related courses.Boz is Of Counsel with the firm and represents abuse victims from around the country.Areas of Practice:Sexual AbuseChild sexual abuseAdult sexual assaultWorkplace sexual harassment and discriminationAll other forms of discrimination and harassment in the workplaceGeneral employment lawPersonal injuryEducation:Samford University Cumberland School of Law, JDStetson University, BABar Admissions:State of Florida, 1993_______________________________________________________Find more stories regarding the IFB movement by visiting:preacherboysdoc.comhttps://www.facebook.com/preacherboysdochttps://twitter.com/preacherboysdochttps://www.instagram.com/preacherboysdoc/To connect with a community who share the Preacher Boys Podcast mission to expose abuse in the IFB, join the OFFICIAL Preacher Boys Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/1403898676438188/Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/preacher-boys-podcast/donationsAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Miami Attorney Isadora Velazquez, Esq. Isadora Velazquez, Esq. was born in Puerto Rico to a Puerto Rican father and Venezuelan mother.  She decided at a young age her career goal would be to assist immigrants who wish to make the US not a dream but a reality.  She graduated with her Bachelor’s degree in Political Science and Spanish from the University of Miami and after only three years. She received her  J.D. from The Dickinson School of Law in Pennsylvania State University. Isadora has over ten years of experience in immigration law representing individuals, in removal proceedings, cancellation of removal, asylum, adjustment of status, naturalization, as well as labor certification, Intra-Company Transfer Visas, Professional Visas and Specialty Visas. She has extensive experience in family based and employment based immigration proceedings.  Ms. Velazquez has argued and won cases before the Executive Order of Immigration Review and Board of Immigration Appeals. Prior to opening the firm Isa Law PA, Ms. Velazquez was the only immigration attorney at Trujillo Vargas Gonzalez Hevia, LLP and a former partner at Aigen & Velazquez, P.A. She has dedicated her legal career to immigration law, personal injury representation, and civil litigation with a focus on first party property claims. Her goal was to obtain the best possible compensation for medical bills, pain and suffering, lost wages, and other damages. Preceding the opening of her own practice, she acquired significant legal experience further complemented by serving as an Assistant State Attorney for the Miami State Attorney’s office where she developed successful litigation skills as a trial attorney in several courtrooms with various judges.  Ms. Velazquez also worked as an Associate Attorney doing Insurance Defense alongside renowned and highly respected law specialists. Isadora Velazquez’s combined expertise in immigration law, personal injury law, and civil litigation serves as an advantage for her clients as she is able to provide comprehensive solutions in all areas of law. https://isalawyers.com/ (305) 938-0676

An Associate at Butler, Suzanne DeCopain practices in our Coverage Defense department. Suzanne has been a member of the Florida Bar since 2009 and is based in our Tampa office. She is admitted to the United States District Court for the Middle, Southern and Northern Districts of Florida. Before joining Butler, Suzanne served as an Assistant State Attorney for the 20th Judicial Circuit for three years. During her time there, she gained significant jury and bench trial experience. Suzanne also has experience in landlord/tenant matters for public housing authorities. While prosecuting, Suzanne taught as an Adjunct Professor at her undergraduate school, Florida Gulf Coast University. Since moving to Tampa, Suzanne became active with various bar associations including the George Edgecomb Bar Association and has held various positions. She is currently on the Board of Directors for the Diversity Access Pipeline and also serves as the Learn Your Legal Rights Community Workshop chair. She was selected as the 2019 recipient of the GEBA Young Lawyers Award for her upstanding work in the legal community as a leader and a mentor. And in 2019, Suzanne was appointed to the Board of Directors for the InterOcean University, a non-profit organization whose mission is to provide online college education tuition-free. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/journey-to-esquire/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/journey-to-esquire/support

We're all obsessed with true crime, but not many take their sleuthing skills beyond a weekend-long Netflix binge. We sit down with Brooke Kargman, Assistant State Attorney, to discuss what it's really like to become a prosecutor.    Brooke finished her JD in 2016, graduating from the University of Richmond School of Law in Richmond, Virginia. She has served as a judicial law clerk for judges in both Virginia and Florida, and is currently an Assistant State Attorney in Florida. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/upswing-podcast/support

Hillary and Tina interview Broward County State Attorney candidate, Harold Pryor. Pryor served as an Assistant State Attorney with the Office of the State Attorney in and for the 17th Judicial Circuit of Florida in Broward County, prosecuting serious criminal offenses in the Felony Trial Unit. He developed a reputation for being a tough, fair, and skilled trial lawyer. Harold was often lauded for his compassion for victims and his constant quest for truth and fairness through every stage of the prosecutorial process. Pryor strongly believes that as a prosecutor, securing guilty verdicts should never be a prosecutor’s primary goal; but rather the pursuit of truth and justice throughout the process should be paramount. In August 2020, Pryor won the Democratic Primary for State Attorney. For show notes and links to our sources, please click here (https://themuckpodcast.fireside.fm/articles/lmepnotes12). Special Guest: Harold Pryor.

Maricopa County Attorney is another critical down-ballot office on the road to Turning Arizona Blue. And Julie Gunnigle has the experience, intellect and empathy to turn this office in the right direction after decades of Republican control, party politics and mismanagement.Julie Gunnigle served as Assistant State Attorney in Cook County Illinois, prosecuting public corruption and financial crimes -- that's where she gained her legal TOUGHness. Her law degree is from the University of Notre Dame and her positions on issues (Gunnigle2020.com) will improve criminal justice here -- that's where her SMARTs and belief in accountably can end the county cronyism. Born and raised in Maricopa County, gives Julie the understanding to regard all its various communities with a FAIR, empathetic and justice oriented approach to this powerful position. Please subscribe to and like Turning Arizona Blue where you get podcasts; leave a review at our Facebook page Turning Arizona Blue; follow us on Twitter @TurningAZ; and email us at turningazblue@gmail.com.

Gregg Rossmann is an attorney who served as an Assistant State Attorney for 20-years and is running to become Broward State Attorney *Follow him on Twitter: @VoteForGregg

After 5 years as an Assistant State Attorney in Dade County Florida, Mark entered private practice where he represented a number of fragrance distribution companies. In 1986 he co-founded Northern Group, a distributor of fine fragrance that grew to $120,000,000 in annual sales. In 2002 he purchased Demeter Fragrance Library with his partner, Debra Janke, and together they have grown that business to a worldwide niche fragrance brand.

Are you ready for the Veepstakes to be over with? So are we!!! In today's episode, we have a power-house roundup and mix up of differing views to discuss each of the candidates. As stated in the episode. While we do have our preferences, BIHH hosts will be voting for Biden either way. This is NOT a drill. Here's who we have on the panel: Melba Pearson Melba Pearson is an attorney who served as an Assistant State Attorney in Miami-Dade County for 15 years. She worked as a line attorney in the misdemeanor Domestic Violence Division, a prosecutor in the Felony Domestic Crimes Unit, and ended her tenure as assistant chief of the Career Criminal/Robbery Unit. As assistant chief, Melba supervised junior attorneys and prosecuted homicide cases. In 2017, Melba left the State Attorney’s office to join the American Civil Liberties Union of Florida as Deputy Director. She worked to change police practices, expand voting rights, and reform the criminal justice system. Melba advocated on a local and statewide level to eliminate racial disparities in the criminal justice system and safely reduce the number of incarcerated Floridians. Melba is running for State Attorney to implement commonsense policies that result in fewer incarcerated people, saving taxpayers’ money and safer communities. Do all you can to help her win this election. https://melbaformiami.com/ Kate @RuderTooter Kate is just a mother, wife, daughter, trying to do right by her community, her brothers and sisters from other mothers, and her family. She's "trying to be a better ancestor" for those that come after us and I can't tell you how proud I am of her passion, her determination, and her spirit. Keep her and her family in your prayers and follow her on Twitter for a strong ally. Lisa Devi Cassandra Lisa Cassandra is a communications and fundraising specialist, working primarily in the non-profit space. She worked as a Volunteer Team Leader and the LA office design coordinator for Kamala Harris’ Presidential campaign. She also raised money for the campaign by serving on her finance committee. She now raises money and runs a group of volunteer organizers with Bianca Delarosa and Harini Krishnan, called KHive for Joe — Organizers & Volunteers, which can be found on Facebook. Our Twitter guest, the 3rd panelist, did not want to be named because of her district, so we are going to protect her right to speak freely without fear of repercussions. Thank you Ms. T for joining us and providing some great insight. You know who you are! See you guys next week and remember, register to vote, help someone else register to vote and if you are scared to go vote in person, request your absentee ballot here, just click on your state. https://www.vote.org/absentee-ballot-deadlines/ #KHive #HEELYeah #Biden2020 --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/backwards--in-high-heels/message

Hello everyone! It’s another CEO Secrets episode. Today our special guest is a strong leader, motivator, and educator in the real estate industry. Let us welcome, Bess Freedman. Bess Freedman is the first CEO of luxury real estate firm Brown Harris Stevens (BHS). In 2013, she was appointed by the President of BHS, Hall F. Wilkie, to foster business development. Prior to entering the real estate industry, Bess practiced law as an Assistant State Attorney in Montgomery County, Maryland, and also worked at Legal Aid as an attorney. Let us hear the success story of Bess’s journey in real estate from being a top agent to becoming the CEO of a prominent real estate brokerage in New York. Top Takeaways: 1. Buy-side opportunities for investors in New York City (3:37) 2. How to compete with your competitors (8:37) 3. Why too much “Tech” is not good (12:14) 4. How does the lead generation in luxury market works (13:46) 5. Bess’ greatest learnings as CEO (20:13) (42:50) 6. The challenges of having no MLS in the city (34:21) Episode Transcript: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1wwA7EEhNcnG4HAWO7Kx40ldd1kMtm1pXEOKCAwa6lgw/edit?usp=sharing

On this episode my guests Florida Attorneys Harold Pryor and Nikeisha Pryor gives us the historical and legal context that helps us understand racial tensions in 2020. I have known Niki, as she is often affectionately called, since high school in our small town in Manchester, Jamaica . Personally she has been a role model and inspiration to me and so many of our high school peers. I was delighted to interview her and even happier that her husband was able to join the conversation and provide sound historically context as a fifth generation Floridian.On the episode, Niki provides a unique perspective on issues affecting to the black community as well as cultural differences in how Black Americans and Caribbeans Americans are perceived. She is currently the proud founder of Pryor Law Group and Cornerstone Florida Title & Abstract in Broward County Florida , where she focuses on commercial and residential real estate matters, as well as corporate transactions. Previously, Niki served as an Assistant State Attorney in Broward County. More information is available on her website at https://www.pryorlawgroup.com/Harold Pryor , in addition to serving as an Assistant State Attorney, has worked as an Associate Attorney in two prominent Florida Law firms. Harold now serves as In-house Counsel for a telecommunications company where he specializes in business litigation, FCC consumer related issues, employment law, and commercial transactions.On August 18, 2020 Harold will be on your ballot as he is running for Office as a State Attorney in Florida!!! His vision and commitment to justice reform is exciting to hear. Read his vision, volunteer and donate on his website at https://www.haroldpryor.com/We need resources to create the change we would like to see, so please lets help get Harold in Office!Caribbean people, if you can, VOTE! Every decision we make today will affect the lives of our family , friends, visiting relatives and our United States brothers and Sisters!HAROLD PRYOR DEMOCRAT FOR STATE ATTORNEY!

Jason Melton is an attorney with nearly twenty years of experience practicing law. As a Managing Partner at Florida legal firm Whittel & Melton LLC, Jason specializes in catastrophic damages and trial advocacy arising in personal injury, wrongful death, criminal defense, and employment disputes. Jason is also a founding member of NAMIL, the National Academy of Motorcycle Injury Lawyers. Prior to going into private practice, Jason worked as an Assistant State Attorney in the Miami-Dade County State Attorney’s Office. What you’ll learn about in this episode: How Jason’s career began by working as a prosecutor in Miami before working in private practice and then founding his own firm How Jason became a founding member of NAMIL, the National Academy of Motorcycle Injury Lawyers, and how the group has helped Jason with the intricacies of motorcycle cases What three key practices Jason recommends to any lawyer who wants to further grow their practice, and why you should be yourself and develop your professional personality How Jason started out working in traffic tickets, and why he felt passionate about his work even though others had advised him not to work in traffic court How Jason first got involved with PILMMA and with the mastermind group, and what value and sense of empowerment he has received from his membership Why joining a mastermind can help you recognize and identify “the things you don’t know that you don’t know” How the global pandemic outbreak is altering Jason’s law practice, and why he sees the virus as a stress test to show firms what is and isn’t working for them How PILMMA’s mastermind has helped Jason keep up with the many changes being brought about by the pandemic Why networking with non-criminal lawyers, marketing to your own clients, and forming connections with people in the criminal industry can be powerful marketing tools Resources: Website: www.thefllawfirm.com LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/jason-melton-206990/ Additional Resources: PILMMA’s Super Summit 2020: https://www.pilmma.org/pilmma-super-summit-2020/ PILMMA’s free Coronavirus Survival Kit: www.pilmma.org/free-resources/ Strategic Attorney Coach: https://www.pilmma.org/strategic-attorney-coach/ PILMMA Join Page: www.pilmma.org/marketing-lawyers-law-firm-management/

In this episode of Power of Attorney, LeTonya Moore welcomes Melba Pearson, Esq for a 2-part discussion on Criminal Justice Reform. Melba Pearson is a candidate for Miami-Dade State Attorney. They will be discussing Bail Reform, Juvenile Justice, Police Transparency and more! You can read about her platform at www.melbaformiami.com. ABOUT THE GUEST: Melba Pearson is an attorney specializing in civil rights and criminal law, with an emphasis on policy. Before launching her consulting firm MVP Law, she spent three years as Deputy Director of the ACLU of Florida where she worked to change police practices, expand voting rights, and reform the criminal justice system. Previously, Ms. Pearson was an Assistant State Attorney in Miami-Dade County for 16 years, culminating as Assistant Chief in the Career Criminal/Robbery Unit supervising junior attorneys while prosecuting homicides. She is the Past President of the National Black Prosecutors Association now serving as the Foundation President; Immediate Past President of the Gwen S. Cherry Black Women Lawyers Association; and co-chair of the Prosecution Function Committee, American Bar Association Criminal Justice Section. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/power-of-attorney/support

In this episode of Power of Attorney, LeTonya Moore welcomes Melba Pearson, Esq for a 2-part discussion on Criminal Justice Reform. Melba Pearson is a candidate for Miami-Dade State Attorney. They will be discussing Bail Reform, Juvenile Justice, Police Transparency and more! You can read about her platform at www.melbaformiami.com. ABOUT THE GUEST: Melba Pearson is an attorney specializing in civil rights and criminal law, with an emphasis on policy. Before launching her consulting firm MVP Law, she spent three years as Deputy Director of the ACLU of Florida where she worked to change police practices, expand voting rights, and reform the criminal justice system. Previously, Ms. Pearson was an Assistant State Attorney in Miami-Dade County for 16 years, culminating as Assistant Chief in the Career Criminal/Robbery Unit supervising junior attorneys while prosecuting homicides. She is the Past President of the National Black Prosecutors Association now serving as the Foundation President; Immediate Past President of the Gwen S. Cherry Black Women Lawyers Association; and co-chair of the Prosecution Function Committee, American Bar Association Criminal Justice Section. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/power-of-attorney/support

Jeff Adelman interviews Board Certified Marital and Family Law Attorney, Gary Dolgin, Candidate for Hillsborough County Circuit Court Judge, Group 30.Gary runs a successful private practice in Tampa since 1993, and has been practicing law for 29 years. He previously served as an Assistant Public Defender and an Assistant State Attorney. Jeff will ask Gary about what drives his candidacy to serve the people of the Tampa area as a Judge, will talk about his family, and what attributes he believes help him to handle the rigors of the job. To contact Gary Dolgin and learn more about his campaign, email garydolginforjudge@gmail.com or www.GaryDolgin.com .

On this week of the Barely Legal Podcast, Josh Sheridan interviews Loren Pincus of L Pincus Law, PLLC. Prior to founding his own law firm, Loren worked for seven years at one of the oldest and most well respected civil and criminal litigation firms in the Tampa Bay Area. Before that, he served as an Assistant State Attorney in Pinellas County for nearly five years. While employed as a Prosecutor, Loren served as a Lead Trial Attorney while handling a broad range of both felony and misdemeanor cases, many of which received media attention.Loren has established an excellent reputation in the community as a trial attorney. He tried nearly 50 cases to jury verdict as a prosecutor, including first-degree murder, capital sexual battery, and DUI Manslaughter. As a civil litigator, he handled cases from their inception, all the way through the litigation process and on to jury verdicts. He routinely obtains favorable settlements and verdicts on behalf of his clients. His experience enables him to anticipate how the other side will proceed in either a civil or criminal matter and effectively respond to their actions.Loren grew up in Pinellas County. He graduated from Boca Ciega High School and Eckerd College. While at Eckerd College he was a four-year member and Captain of the school's NCAA Division II baseball team. He graduated from New England School of Law in Boston, MA. Loren is admitted to practice throughout the State Florida, the State of New York and the District of Columbia. He is also admitted to practice before the Supreme Court of the United States of American and Federal Court for the Middle District of Florida. Loren is certified by the Major League Baseball Players Association as an Athlete Agent and currently represents several professional baseball players. He founded Greenline Sports Management, through which he advises both amateur and professional athletes on all aspects pertaining to the MLB Draft, marketing and sponsorship agreements and overall successfully navigating life as a professional athlete. Loren has achieved an AV Preeminent rating (the highest possible) by Martindale-Hubbell, which is based upon the input of local Judges and fellow attorneys. He also maintains a "Superb - 10 out of 10" ranking on Avvo. He is a member of the Florida Justice Association, the Tampa Bay Trial Lawyers Association and coaches his children's youth sports through Keystone Little League and the local YMCA.

Lisa Chittaro, a former Assistant State Attorney, has practiced animal and elder abuse cases from 2013 to 2107. She currently is in private practice in Sarasota, FL. Lisa believes her work focuses on specific cases that otherwise would not receive the awareness they should. Thanks to her work, these cases have been aggressively prosecuted and investigated. Lisa believes that both animals and the elderly are the members of society that need the most protection. She has been instrumental in prosecuting local animal abuse cases in Manatee and Sarasota Counties helping to keep the most vulnerable safe. Lisa is tireless in her efforts to prosecute animal cruelty cases and cares very deeply for her voiceless victims. Lisa continues to remain active in animal welfare issues in her community.

Lisa Chittaro, a former Assistant State Attorney, has practiced animal and elder abuse cases from 2013 to 2107. She currently is in private practice in Sarasota, FL. Lisa believes her work focuses on specific cases that otherwise would not receive the awareness they should. Thanks to her work, these cases have been aggressively prosecuted and investigated. Lisa believes that both animals and the elderly are the members of society that need the most protection. She has been instrumental in prosecuting local animal abuse cases in Manatee and Sarasota Counties helping to keep the most vulnerable safe. Lisa is tireless in her efforts to prosecute animal cruelty cases and cares very deeply for her voiceless victims. Lisa continues to remain active in animal welfare issues in her community.

Kristin Kanner is a graduate of Duke University with degrees in Psychology and Political Science. She received her Juris Doctorate from the University of Florida College of Law. Dedicating her career to public service for more than 20 years, Kristin has served as an Assistant State Attorney in the 17th Judicial Circuit and has led the office’s Sexually Violent Predator Unit since 2004.

Kristin Kanner is a graduate of Duke University with degrees in Psychology and Political Science. She received her Juris Doctorate from the University of Florida College of Law. Dedicating her career to public service for more than 20 years, Kristin has served as an Assistant State Attorney in the 17th Judicial Circuit and has led the office’s Sexually Violent Predator Unit since 2004.

Saving Lives of Addicts Through The Marchman Act and Mark AstorMARK G. ASTOR BIO Born and raised in the United Kingdom until the age of twenty-one, Mark Astor has been an attorney since 1994. Before entering private practice, Mr. Astor began his legal career as a prosecutor with the Palm Beach County State Attorney’s Office. Mr. Astor served the citizens of Palm Beach County as an Assistant State Attorney from 1994-1999. During his career as a prosecutor, he served as Chief of two different County Court Divisions and, thereafter, was promoted to a felony trial division. He has handled thousands of cases ranging from first-degree misdemeanors to Capital Murder. Mr. Astor was admitted to the Florida Bar in 1994 and, in 1995, was admitted to practice before the U. S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida. In 2005, he was admitted to the District of Columbia Bar. He received his Bachelor of Arts Degree from the University of Michigan in 1990, his Juris Doctorate from Nova Southeastern University College of Law in 1994, and his Master of Laws Degree (L.L.M.) from American University, Washington College of Law in 2005. Mr. Astor’s law practice, Drug and Alcohol Attorneys (http://drugandalcoholattorneys.com) focuses on representing and empowering individuals who are in crisis because of drug, alcohol and mental heath disorders. Many times, individuals or families come to Mr. Astor because they have a friend or loved one who either refuses to go into treatment, or will not stay in treatment. When this is the case, Mr. Astor gives counsel to help navigate through the Marchman Act process, Florida’s involuntary commitment law for drug, alcohol and co-occurring mental heath disorders. Additionally, Mr. Astor provides counsel when there is a need to file an Emergency Guardianship Petition (ETG) so that an individual who is no longer competent to make medical decisions for themselves can have that burden taken off their shoulders. On other occasions, individuals find themselves in the criminal justice system and need assistance navigating it’s complexities, having been arrested for an offense that stems from drug addiction or mental health disorders. When he’s not working in his law practice, Mr. Astor empowers members of the community by teaching Krav Maga (the Israeli system of hand to hand taught to the military, special forces and anti-terror units). He also enjoys an early morning work out believing that a healthy body leads to a healthy mind. Learn more about Mark at https://drugandalcoholattorneys.com/about-mark-astor/Learn more about Rob Lohman at www.TheAddictionRecoveryHub.comLearn more about Recovery Unplugged at www.RecoveryUnplugged.com

About Aramis Aramis Donell Ayala received a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Michigan, a Juris Doctor from the University of Detroit-Mercy School of Law, and a Master of Science in Criminal Justice from the University of Central Florida.​Aramis was sworn in as the State Attorney for the Ninth Judicial Circuit of Florida on January 3, 2017. Prior to her election as State Attorney, she served as an Assistant State Attorney, an Assistant Public Defender, a Civil Litigator, Adjunct Professor of Law, and Legal Analyst. She now manages 4 offices an administrative team, nearly 150 attorneys, sworn police investigators, victim advocates and hundreds of support staff.Aramis has prosecuted and defended a range of criminal cases from Misdemeanors to Capital Felonies, including Sex Crimes, crimes against children, and Homicides. She has always recognized the dangers of Domestic Violence and other violent crime and has been devoted to ensuring safe and healthy communities. Aramis' story is truly inspirational. At the start of her journey into law, she had to drop out of law school after getting cancer, which was close to being pronounced terminal. But she fought and beat cancer, returning to pass the Florida Bar exam and onto a career as an assistant public defender and assistant state attorney. She is a history maker and true woman on fire.   Visit https://www.sao9.net/aramis-d-ayala.html to learn more

Growing up, Jay Patel developed a passion for the law and pressed forward toward a career in that end. After graduating from the University of Florida, Jay served Okaloosa County as a Sworn Law Enforcement Officer. While serving in law enforcement, he gravitated toward the courtroom. After completing his law degree, Jay joined the State Attorney’s Office. During his tenure as an Assistant State Attorney, Jay served in both Okaloosa and Walton counties prosecuting thousands of criminal cases and additionally handled criminal appeals. Jay’s practice now is devoted to Litigation with a focus on Criminal Defense.

In this episode, I had the pleasure of interviewing Aditi Juneja. Aditi is a lawyer, an immigrant, and a feminist who formerly led/co-created Resistance Manual and OurStates.org. Topics Covered Her background as both a lawyer and an activist, and how she noticed the disconnect between the purposes and the aims of criminal law and how it was being implemented. Aspects of her advocacy job that lead to her founding of the Resistance Manual and her Self Care Sundays podcast. How self-care is about having the tools, resources, and practices that allow you to thrive in this world and how our identities shape how we see self-care. How privilege plays a role in skewing our views of self-care and how to engage a conversation on privilege which is productive. You can learn more about Aditi Juneja at: Her Website: https://aditijuneja.me/ Her Podcast: www.selfcaresundays.com Twitter: @aditijuneja3   Questions? Comments? Email Jeena! hello@jeenacho.com. 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Instead, they specialize in branding their clients as trusted, credible experts, increasing referrals, and ultimately driving growth. For our listeners, Spotlight Branding is offering a complimentary website review. Go to: SpotlightBranding.com/trl Check out this episode! Transcript Intro: Today's show is sponsored by Spotlight Branding. Spotlight Branding works exclusively with solo and small law firms to brand them as trusted, credible experts and help them stand out in a crowded marketplace. Their services include web design, social media, video marketing and more. Aditi: She said, "I try to get rid of the blame and the shame and kind of explain that, being born white is like being born with access to a country club. Like, it's not that you did anything to deserve it; you just kind of have it. But, by having it that means you have access to certain things that other people don't." Intro: Welcome to The Resilient Lawyer podcast. In this podcast we have meaningful, in-depth conversations with lawyers, entrepreneurs, and change agents. We offer tools and strategies for creating a more joyful and satisfying life. And now your host, Jeena Cho. Aditi: I am Aditi Juneja. I am the creator and the host of the Self-Care Sunday's podcast, and I co-created The Resistance Manual and OurStates.org as well. Jeena: Wow, that's quite a list. Well, tell me about Self-Care Sunday. Where did that idea come from and tell the listeners a little bit about the project? Aditi: So the Self-Care Sunday's podcast came out of the activist work that I was doing and realizing that I was really just tired and exhausted and feeling like I didn't know how to do this work in a sustainable way. And I thought that I should probably figure that out in order to try to avoid burn-out and to make sure that I was being as effective as I could be. So I thought, you know, the way I would learn was to talk to activists, lawyers, entrepreneurs, artists, all kinds of folks about how they did self-care and how they sustain their work. And then it occurred to me that if I was having this problem that others must be too. So if I recorded the conversations I was having in the form of a podcast and I shared them that perhaps that would have some utility. So that was how that podcast was born. Jeena: Tell me about the activist work that you are doing. Aditi: So I had been, I was in my third year of law school. I had been interested in criminal justice reform, I had worked at a DA's office for a couple of years prior to law school. In law school, I had focused mostly on criminal justice reform work. I had written a note on that topic and particularly on prosecutorial reform. But after the election, it seemed like the shift needed, that there needs to be a shift, I needed to broaden my focus a little bit. So I started just kind of collecting, tracking information trying to understand the various policies that were being proposed by the incoming administration and the processes to enact them, so I didn't know how budget reconciliation worked for example, so I was trying to understand that, understand where the opportunities were for activism, and I shared that with Stay Woke, which is an organization that was born out of the movement for Black Lives, and they thought that what I was collecting that information would be really useful and that if we could create a crowd-sourced platform that might serve as a useful resource for other folks who were joining what was the nascent resistance movement. So that rather than everyone researching every individual policy themselves, we could have a collective, you know, a shared space for that information and that we could kind of build on the work of each other instead of duplicating efforts. Jeena: Yeah that makes a lot of sense. What got you interested in criminal justice reform? Aditi: I think I...so I had it, I was always interested in criminal justice generally, but I don't know why. I look back through high school; maybe it was a mock trial, I don't know, it was a lot of different things. But I had always had that interest. But in college, I had the opportunity after my junior year to intern with a superior court judge in New Jersey who was in the criminal court system. And during that time I was sitting in chambers and then talking to prosecutors and defense attorneys. And I got to hear their opinions about how the system was working, and also importantly how it was not working. And so after I left college I spent my first two years as a paralegal in the Manhattan DA's office in the Early Case Assessment Bureau, so I was writing up complaints about the cases that everyone hates. You know, the fair-beating cases, the shoplifting cases, the "feet on the seats" cases and all that. And even when I was there it felt to me like, you know, we were enforcing the law. I didn't feel like I was doing anything wrong. I didn't feel guilty about it. But after I left and started law school, with the perspective of distance and time and then also just the legal education, the opportunity to consider why do we have laws? What is the purpose of the criminal law? Like what is mens rea? What is actus reus? What is the point of all of this? You know, kind of having that framework made me think about it more critically and, particularly, be able to apply it not just, I wasn't just learning about it in a theoretical sense, I was able to then take that framework and that theory I was learning in law school and apply it to what I had seen working in the DA's office and I realized that there was quite a large disconnect between the purposes and the aims of criminal law. And what I had seen actually happen, so I was very quickly interested in reform work and trying to understand what the issues were in the system and how it might be improved. Jeena: Saying more about the disconnect, can you give a concrete example of how the law should work versus how it was actually being implemented? Aditi: So a lot of the cases I was writing up as a paralegal, it was non-victim misdemeanors, so it was what we would consider or what was called broken windows, policing quality of life crimes and the idea, at least in my understanding, was that by lowering the rates of quality of life, crimes in New York City were just, where I was working, that it would then reduce violent crime overall. But there was no nexus between those two things, there is no provable nexus between those two things. And so, for me it felt like a lot of times I would see cases right, where for example, in New York State there's a law about gravity knives, which are the kinds of knives that if you flip out the blade, the blade just flips out, like you don't have to push a button or anything it just flips out. And there's a law against possession of them, but half of the people who possess them said, "I was like coming home from work. I work as a construction worker. I have this job." And of course, one could think that people are lying about it, but it often felt like you're arresting people who have these as tools for their jobs. Thinking that you're thinking that, you know that this law was written at a time or with the idea and understanding that you're going to prevent violence, but most of these people are literally just possessing them for the purpose of their job. And the way that you're stopping them and noticing that people have them is because you're seeing the clip in their pant pocket. And so it's not that someone is like, holding it out or doing something with it. You're stopping them and so, you know, I would hear police officers talk about pressure to have a certain number of arrests per month. An unspoken pressure, it's not a quota but a pressure that they felt to have a certain number of arrests per month. And to me, I was like, wouldn't the goal of the criminal justice system be that we have fewer arrests— isn't that supposed to be a good thing? Because that means that less crime is happening or that you were able to resolve an issue without making an arrest, without it escalating to the point of an arrest, you know. And so the measures of success, the metrics that we use to understand how safe or unsafe a community is, and how issues are being resolved, to me just all felt flawed. And it was never an issue of an, I mean it was most often not the issue of an individual, right? It was, the police officer's following the law as he understands it, the prosecutor, or in my case, the paralegal is writing up a complaint based on their understanding of the policies and procedures of the office and what the law says. But somehow the people who are being arrested are not the people that I'm most concerned about. You know, in our society it's often, it felt like it was often those who, you know, happen to be out in public didn't have the privacy of their own homes, didn't have the money to make bail. And that to me felt like something was just off. Jeena: Yeah. I definitely feel like I saw a lot of that when I was an Assistant State Attorney, where I was like I don't think that's what the law was actually intended to do. Like for example, in Florida, there is a crime. It was a misdemeanor for driving without a valid license which, you know from a majority of us just might get your driver's license expired and you have to go and get it fixed. But often how it was actually used was to punish undocumented workers who, of course, can't legally get driver's licenses. So these people ended up with very, very long jail sentences. Whereas for everybody else, all they had to do was just go and get their driver's license renewed and then come back and just show the proof. But that wasn't the intent of the law, right? The intent of the law was not to prosecute or to criminalize people that are there as an undocumented worker. And in Florida, there are lots of them. So yeah. Aditi: Yeah and there's just this feeling too of you know, I'm a citizen obviously as well of the state that I'm living and working in, and so you know I would you know I would see the kinds of cases that I was writing about, but I was like, "This is how police officers are spending their time?" This is not like, this does not make me feel safer as I walk home at night. You know like, I'm not I'm like you know I would sometimes be a little bit sarcastic with police officers. I'd be like, "Really? Like, I feel so much safer knowing you're on the street arresting people for this. Like what, what are you doing?" And of course, it was often not the individual's fault. It was really the policy and the incentives of the systems. And so I started kind of, you know getting really interested in what are the incentive structures and what are the systems that are at play here that are leading these to these kinds of absurd results. Jeena: Yeah, yeah. So let's go back to self-care. Were there any particular aspects of doing the advocacy job where you kind of felt like you needed to practice self-care? Like what was the impetus for you recognizing that? Like, "Hey I need some additional tools to be able to continue to do the work that I'm doing effectively." Aditi: We've co-founded The Resistance Manual and it launched right around the inauguration, so it was like January 20th. So I was a third-semester law student running an organization of 300 people. And I was just overwhelmed. It was really a time thing that I was like, I just don't have the time to be attending whatever it was, four or five classes, writing papers, and like all of that while supervising, facilitating, coordinating the work of 300 volunteers for this monster of a project that I created. And I was just very, it was really a time crunch and I felt like because I was the person who had created it, it was the vision, it was new. You know, there was no internal infrastructure; there was no like HR to refer people to. Right? Like I was the person with all, you know who had answered all the questions and I was kind of perpetually on call. And especially in the early months of the administration, now we've almost gotten used to it. But like, the fact that there was a crisis every day was like...now we're kind of like, "Well there's a crisis every day." That has somehow become normal but like, when we first started that was definitely not normal. We were like, "What the hell?" Every moment you're just on, and first the Muslim ban, Paris agreement, and it was just always something. And there were lots of leaks early on of proposed executive orders. And so I was, fortunately, kind of, I'm a systems thinker so I was really trying to like figure out like how do I create systems to handle these things. You know, building teams, creating a layer of team leaders, an FAQ document, a principles and guidelines document, like really trying to create a process to kind of absorb some of the questions and confusion that was existing in the organization I was building but it was still just a lot. And it was this feeling of, you think you're doing work that's important and matters. But at the same time, no one had done what I was doing before. Lots of people had done organizing before, but no one had created a policy platform before in the way that The Resistance Manual existed and with the purpose of being targeted to the general public. So, of course, you have think tanks that issue reports and stuff, but no one had created what we were trying to do. So I was just in this constant state of like, I have no idea what I'm doing. And it's not as though, I can ask others who have built new things, but it's not as though I can ask someone who has done this before because no one has done this before. And so, I was like looking for ways to keep myself calm, keep myself focused, not to feel guilty. You know, just to just kind of get through. It was very overwhelming. And so I was trying to, and also the first time I had ever led anything, it was the first time I was doing press. That was the first time that had happened, I was talking to political directors of huge national organizations and I was like, I don't know what the hell is even happening in my life right now. So it didn't just work, it was also, suddenly I'm in the paper, suddenly my Twitter profile's verified, people care what I have to say like it was a lot at once and I was looking for just a way to get through. Jeena: Yeah, yeah. That makes a lot of sense. Maybe we can back up, like way, way, way, way back and kind of talk about, you know when you talk about self-care, like what does self-care mean to you? Aditi: So to me, self-care is about having the tools, the resources, the time, the practices that allow you to thrive in this world. And that was another big impetus of the podcast, was whenever I would see people talking about self-care and how you thrive and kind of being calm. It was often like stuff that required money, like go get a massage, go do a manicure. Like you know, or and it was like, and the pictures were always of like, white women with blond hair doing yoga. And I was like I don't know, I'm a law student I don't have the money to get a massage every day. And I just, I didn't feel like the resources that were available was speaking to someone like me. And particularly because of the work that I was doing, it was really about elevating the voices of those most marginalized and vulnerable. I was like, I still have a fair amount of privilege, right? Like I was in law school, I had access, I had resources, there's a meditation space at NYU Law. Like you know, I had tools at my disposal. But I was like what happens to, you know I was working closely with Fight for $15 on some things; I was like what happens to the fast food worker? How do they do self-care? Who's asking that question, you know? And so I wanted to, I wanted to have space where we could talk about self-care not just for people like me but also for people with less privilege than me. Because I was like, how are we expecting people to participate in this work long-term in a sustainable way without giving them kind of resiliency tools? Jeena: Yeah, so you have done a lot of different interviews. You know, what were some of the highlights? What were some things that people shared with you where you were like, "That is such a great idea!" Or something that you know really is accessible to everyone. Aditi: So I didn't have really any framework for this going in. So for me, everything was mind-blowing, so you can definitely see the trajectory of my growth in the episodes because my questions get deeper. Because when they started I'm like, "So what does this mean to you?" Like it was very, very basic and then it got deeper and it wasn't fake it was very real. But I realized that a lot of people's ideas about self-care and who's allowed to do self-care and how you're allowed to do self-care comes from their families, so a lot of the people early on would talk about their mothers a lot, like people like the first five episodes. Everyone was saying like, "I saw my mom do this," or, "I saw my mom not do this and I had to learn that I could do that even though my mom didn't." So then for episode six, I interviewed my mom because I was like if I was talking about their mom let's find out what my mom has to say about this stuff. And so I realized that you know what you see growing up really informs the way that you kind of create your baseline for how you think about this. And especially I think it's quite gendered, like labor itself is gendered. But then also spaces for care or not who is expected to do emotional labor, who are expected to do different types of work, it's highly gendered so I thought it was interesting to talk my mom. But then I realized I was interviewing mostly women. And then I was like, well then I think if gender is playing a large component in this than I should probably talk to someone about masculinity, right? So then I had someone from The Love Army on and we talked about masculinity and how you know, how the concept of masculinity obviously affects women too but it's just about how having emotions is frowned upon, how you're not taken seriously if you have feelings, right? And so if you don't have space to deal with your feelings, that tends not to end well for people. People you know, then they have breakdowns, they lash out, they get angry, they get violent. I mean their feelings go somewhere, they don't just disappear. And so that became an inquiry. And then we were talking to a lot of people of color early on. And so then a lot of it was about like a lot of the conversation had to do with race and how again, there are tropes about you know, model minorities, the strong black woman, like the feisty Latina, like they're all these kind of racial tropes. So then I interviewed a white person about white privilege and white guilt and I was like, "So what is this thing of white guilt? Because it seems to be very unproductive, like how does that work?" And so it became, it was about self-care but it was about self-care for all people...which means that you're doing these kinds of social justice inquiries about like, how do our identities shape the way that we think about self-care, and what we feel like we're allowed to do or not allowed. So later on we did an episode with someone talking about representation in media and like, how often do you see people seeing therapists on TV and who are the people who are seeing therapists on TV, and who are the people who are therapists on TV and what does that teach us about what self-care can look like or not look like for different types of people. Jeena: Right. And I think that's a huge issue just the, from the whiteness. Well not only white, but also just white females or I think makes up a huge bulk of people that become therapists, right. So I think that then there is like this implicit message that says, well if you're a person of color then maybe you're not welcome in that space or that you're not entitled to getting that help. I don't know, I do think that there is some sort of like an underlying message that goes along with just so many therapists being a white female. Aditi: Yeah, I definitely agree and I think also just that you know on tv shows I think like sometimes you see white people do like see a therapist. Like I was re-watching The West Wing, like the President and his you know, Deputy Chief of Staff on that tv show. Got to, they brought someone in from ATVA you know, after a trauma and they were men but they got to have therapy. But it was very rare and very recent that you started seeing people of color on tv seeking out therapy when they're not in crisis, right. Like I'm not in drug rehabilitation, talking about just like, "I could you know, my life could be better. Maybe I should talk to someone." You know, and there is a good kind of plot-line on the TV show Insecure which is by Issa Rae. And it was her best friend on the show Molly, who's a black woman, and kind-of this whole thing about like therapy is not for me. And they really kind of contended and wrestled with like, who is therapy for? Is it weird that I'm doing therapy? Like, you only do therapy if you're all screwed up. And like, kind of these tropes and these stereotypes and these impressions of that. And so I think you know, the nice thing on the Self-Care Sundays podcast was because it was really just me and my microphone and whoever would be willing to join me, I really had the freedom to seek out the conversations that felt salient and kind of allow it to guide itself and see you know, well we haven't talked about this kind of person or this person brought this up and that was really interesting and I wonder what you know, someone else would say about that. And so I think that was, my understanding evolved and then I kind of sought out guests that I thought would further the conversation and kind of keep the ball rolling forward. Jeena: What does your self-care practice look like? Aditi: I think my self-care practice is constantly evolving. I try to set new goals. I'm not the best and especially because I just graduated law school so now I'm starting to work. So I think it's kind of like, re-visiting you know what I want it to look like. I meditate, which I find helpful I write, which helps me to think kind of clearly. If I'm trying to go through thoughts in my head, it doesn't work well. I've done therapy, which helped me to be less fixated on things, helped me to realize like there are things that I can't control and I need to let stuff go because I have lawyer type-A personality of everything must be done you know, the way that I can do anything, I can fix anything like and realize that that's not true. I think, realizing through the podcast and the activist work was just that boundaries are really important, so like there are just some things that you can't do. I started making frequent use of the word "unsolicited" much to my parent's chagrin, where I'm just like, "That was unsolicited, I did not ask for your advice on that. I do not want your advice. No thank you." And I think you know because I actually was a few years ago I think my therapist and I were talking and I said something. And I said, "I don't know, it's like men just feel that they can just tell us stuff.” And she's like, "Yeah. But we also allow them to tell us stuff." And I was like, "You're right. We should just start telling them that their opinions are unsolicited." And so that just became like my favorite word that I would just tell them, like, "I did not ask you that, please go away." And I think for me, the boundary component of it, the meditation, the kind of quiet time because I'm like often really just going, go go go mode. So learning to sit in quiet for me has been a big change. And then writing to kind of get some clarity of thought. And I had noticed that in my journals I would often only be writing when something bad happened, and so I kind of made a commitment just like this month that I wanted to start writing every day, regardless of what was happening. Because I didn't want to just be writing to baseline, I wanted to be writing also to allow myself to reflect and grow and pushing myself. Getting a new website design can be a huge pain. But, what if I told you that building a new website for your law firm didn't have to suck? My friends at Spotlight Branding pride themselves on their responsiveness, on great communication, and on delivering results for their clients. And, Spotlight Branding doesn't lock their clients into long-term contracts. In fact, they offer a no-risk, money-back guarantee on their work so that you can have total peace of mind while you work with them. 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Jeena: And then the self-care space, in what ways does privilege play out? Aditi: So I think there has been, you know we've taken care of ourselves and each other like through human history like that's just always been true. But there has been a real co-modification of self-care and industry built around it. When I was you know, five or six, people used to make fun of me for being Indian. Now like, everyone does yoga and I'm like, y'all do know where it came from? There's lots of appropriation. People say "namaste" and most don't know that it's a Hindi word. It's kind of strange to me. You know, living my immigrant experience, seeing the ways, it's been kind-of you know, those self-care practices have been co-opted by and then monetized. So I think you know, there's privilege about access to those practices but also just about you know, when we're talking about representation, about how people think about who gets to do self-care. So what's interesting to me is that, in my podcast when I was interviewing people, it was often those who you would imagine had less privilege who would say you don't need a lot of privilege to practice self-care, that you can you know, go outside for five minutes, you can take a walk, you can make a mug of tea. And they would really push back on the notion that you need the privilege to practice self-care, but would concede that oftentimes there's an issue of time, but also just of mentality that you don't feel that you are allowed to practice self-care, because the way it's marketed, the way it's discussed, really requires resources. That people say, "Oh you know, here you know, enjoy your self-care with this bubble bath, enjoy your self-care with this manicure." Like it though, it's marketed, the language of self-care has been marketed and is often tied to a product or a service that you buy. And so people have you know, people feel like they don't have access to it when oftentimes you know, religious services for a lot of people for very long time have served as a form of fortification and self-care and renewal and replenishment of the soul. You know and so there's, but because there's like this now market and this language and this industry around self-care, people sometimes with less privilege don't feel like their ways of practicing self-care are not valuable not valid, they don't count. And so I wanted to create a space where all self-care counts and you work with what you have and that's valid and that's valuable. And I wanted and I intentionally made sure that I was trying to speak to people across different types of privilege or lack of privilege so that there was really an array of practices being shared and discussed so people felt like, the hope was that people would be able to find an entry point, that they would hear something that resonated with them. Whether that's about like, making art or getting a massage or taking a walk or being outside or a cup of tea or you know, whatever it is, that something would click with them where they would say, "Oh yeah, I do that," or, "Yeah I could do that." You know, and that would kind of help begin someone's journey into thinking about self-care. Jeena: Yeah so, I don't know if you get the sense too like there is this sense that now like, you need somebody else to tell you how to do self-care. Like someone has this magical list of like, proper or correct ways to do self-care and you better check against that list before you venture on this thing called self-care, because what if you're not doing it correctly. Aditi: Yeah that's weird. That's definitely a weird thing that has, I think, I don't know if it's related to but at least feels related to the performative digital media culture that we live in. Which is like, you know it's like, you couldn't have made. like it's like my sister for example, when she cooks she takes pictures so my parents think I don't cook because I don't send them pictures when I cook. There's like a phrase like "pictures or it didn't happen." And it's like no, it still happened. Like life does not work in accordance to what's on my Instagram, right? But I think that if you live in a world, as I think a lot of particularly young people do, where that like, you know I'm 26. So for me, I at least remember a time before we had internet. I remember when AIM came out and when AOL was new. But like, for people even three years younger than me, my sister's age, she doesn't remember when we used actual maps she always remembers MapQuest. So for her, you know for people who are digital natives, I'm just on the brink of that, where I remember not having it. But for people who are true digital natives, there really is this feeling of that there's a pressure like the peer pressure is different than I think what it was even just for me even just being a few years older. Where it's like, you know when we learned about peer pressure it was about like, don't let someone force you into drinking, just saying no to drugs, right? When my sister learned about peer pressure, it was about cyber-bullying after a horrific incident on the Rutgers campus where someone videotaped one of their roommates. You know, and engaging in a sex act with a gay person. It was just like a whole thing like there was like this whole big push around cyber-bullying and the way people dox each other. Like that wasn't a thing when I was, you know when I was in middle school r high school. Facebook, I got access to Facebook when I was 16. We weren't allowed before then; it was just for college students. So I just missed it. You know, I didn't go to high school with social media. But if you did it would be a thing of like, oh you're not at this party. There's a feeling of missing outright, you're not at this party, you didn't get invited to this thing. And so similarly I think for self-care it's like, you're not using the right face mask, you're not using the right meditation app, you're not drinking the right kind of flavored water. I don't know. I don't know what the things are, but it feels like it is part of this kind of performative "Keeping up with the Joneses" culture that our social media has exacerbated. But it doesn't need to. Jeena: Yeah, right. And I think it's important to emphasize that self-care can look very, very different for you then like, everybody else and that there are no norms for practicing self-care. I mean there may be certain themes that run through it, right? Or there may be some similarities, but that you don't need somebody else's permission to be able to practice self-care. Aditi: And also, what is self-care for you might actually be harmful to me and vice versa, right? Like so like for something really simple, like some people will say like for them self-care, we can thank, Shonda Rimes for this, is like you know, drinking a bottle of wine and watching Scandal, right? Like that could be your self-care, right? It's just like a little bit of an escapism and relaxing. For me, as a person with a seizure disorder, if I'm drinking a bottle of red wine, my body is not going to react well to that. That is the exact opposite of self-care to me. I mean my body's going to freak out if I do that. And so, like there are this kind-of really simple things that it's like, for you that's totally self-care and for me, that's a disaster. That's the exact opposite of self-care. I stopped drinking a few years ago and I have like, maybe one drink every now and then. And that was great self-care to me. But for other people you know, having a bottle of wine with a friend or while watching a tv show or a movie, that's self-care to them. And so I like that as an example because you can really see the starkness of how what works for someone just doesn't work for somebody else. And I think that was another benefit of really trying to have a diversity of guests on my podcast and as I was doing that inquiry was also to try to demonstrate and to represent the variety of life experiences and even other simple things like, you know artists will talk about self-care, I was like, if you ask me to paint that will not be self-care, that would be very stressful. I would be like, "I don't know how to do this. What do you mean? What are colors? Like what?" It would be stressful to me to paint, but for other people, their art is their self-care. And conversely, for someone you know, writing might be very stressful but for me, that's great self-care. And so I think that's, you know, I wasn't just trying to have representation across demographics or identities, but also just across practices and experiences because I thought you know, wouldn't it be great if I had a guest one week who said this was their self-care and the next week someone said when I stopped doing that, that was my self-care. Like, and for people to really realize you get to decide for yourself. I wanted to show that. Jeena: Yeah, and I think that's such an important message. What led to the decision to quit drinking? Aditi: It was just really bad for my epilepsy, it was like every time...I'm generally in life not good at moderation. And that's how you end up in your last semester of law school running an organization like that. I'm just not good at moderation. You know, you're not like, "Oh I know I'll join," you're like, "No I'll start." So for me, moderation has never been great, and I just realized that if I wanted to be healthy...it was my second year of law school. I had two seizures my first year of school. I was a class behind and I was like if I want to graduate in time, this needs to not be a part of my life. And now that it's been almost two years, like this summer I went on vacation with my mom and I had like one drink on two different nights, so now I feel like I can like moderate up. And it wasn't that I was drinking excessively. It was just that it, was just not worth it. It just wasn't like, there was very little joy in drinking for me. It wasn't that much fun. You wake up with a hangover, it's quite expensive. And for me there were these real health risks where if I was drinking in excess I could potentially have a seizure and it was just, it just wasn't worth it. Jeena: Yeah. Well, we can spend a little bit of time chatting about...I mean, one of the things that I am struggling with and what I think a lot of people struggle with this too, is you know like how to even have productive conversations about privilege, right? And it's a really hard conversation. And you know of course you've done a lot of activist work and you've thought a lot about this. You know, thoughts on how to like actually engage in this conversation about privilege in a way that's productive. So it's a couple of things. One is like boundaries, right? So there are people who will engage in the conversation with and people who I won't engage in conversation with is just like, a good place to start. So for me, I think that these days I don't really engage in conversations on privilege with white folks but I think it's really important for me to engage in conversations on privilege with other Asian-Americans, particularly Indian-Americans. I feel like that in-group dialogue is important because there's a connection there and I think I can be more impactful there. So just, and that's different for different people. I'm not saying that people need to set the same boundary, but I think having a boundary of when you will engage when you won't engage...because you can't be fighting with every stranger on the Internet. You will be tired. You just can't do that. Like it doesn't work. I think first, in order to even be able to engage in the conversation, you have to have the emotional resources to engage. Which means you have to decide that you're not going to engage some of the time. Right? Like, so in order to have the same conversation for the 801st time, I need to replenish myself enough and that means that I need to know that there are going to be times where I'm not going to have that conversation. And I think part of the reason for that is because a lot of the conversation is about listening, it's not about talking. So rather than like, let me share my thesis and dissertation on everything I've read and learned about privilege with you, it's much more productive if people come to conclusions and understandings themselves. And as lawyers or as trained lawyers, most of us should be quite good at asking questions that lead people to their thinking; no one's going to object to your leading question. So you can, you know help facilitate someone's thinking through asking questions. And I think you know for example, once you know a lot of the narrative around privilege or where people don't recognize privilege is there a feeling of you know, you did something yourself. You worked really hard by yourself. And I think asking questions about how is that really true, like did you really not have any support? So I could say, "I'm self-made. I'm the daughter of immigrants." Yada yada yada. And it's like, but did you really? Is that really true? No that's not true. Like I got C's in middle school, I got C's in high school. Why did that not prevent me from going to a good college? Oh, well my parents had the resources to be able to pay full tuition for me to attend a small liberal arts college when I did not get scholarships into high-ranking colleges, and that allowed me to continue to grow and get a good education and develop the discipline, get better grades. And so then when I was studying for the LSAT, again I had support and resources to take a LSAT class that allowed me to improve my score significantly and get admission to a great school. And like, you know and kind of asking people questions about, "Did you really do this by yourself. You know, because you didn't. No one did anything by themselves. In an industrialized economy, no one does anything by themselves, only the hunters and gatherers really did things by themselves, and even then they worked in communities to get things done. And so I think if instead of it being an attack on, "Well you're not recognizing your privilege and you don't understand what it's like for me," I think asking people questions and trying to understand the narrative that they have in their head about not just others, but themselves, helps you to kind of deconstruct. If you can really, radically empathize and understand someone's viewpoint then you can talk to them in a way they can understand. But once you have demonized or written someone off, you're not going to be able to get through to them because you're not going to understand how they're thinking about it. On podcast when we did the episode on white privilege and white guilt, I asked the person who I was speaking with how she talks to poor white people, how she helps them understand white privilege when in their lives they've not seen privilege, particularly if they live in a predominantly white community, they don't have a good point of reference to say, "Yeah my life is challenging this way, but people who are similarly financially situated but are, you know, lacking the racial privilege I have live lives this way." And she said you know, I try to get rid of the blame and the shame and kind-of explain that being born white is like being born with access to a country club. Like it's not that you did anything to deserve it, you just kind of have it. But by having it that means you have access to certain things that other people don't. And so trying to steer the conversation away from blame and shame and make it more about you know, this is the structure, this is the construction that we're all in. And so now what do we do, right? It's not your fault. But this is what it is. So now what we do? But I think it requires first this base understanding of what perspective is this person coming from and what's informing that perspective. So you know like, I remember having conversations with my mom about racial privilege and her not fully grasping it, coming from a country that had a caste system but not a racial dynamic. But she really understood sexism well. And drawing analogies to sexism helped her understand racism. So I think if you can find kind-of, a point of reference for people, that helps. And I think, but particularly just not blaming them, really trying to understand their viewpoint. But that's quite draining when someone is telling you that they think your viewpoint and your life's work is invalid and then you're like, "Great. Let me really try to deeply understand where you're coming from," is exhausting. That's why I started with saying that having and I'm ending saying that I think having a boundary on when you'll have those conversations is really important. Jeena: So I think that leads me to the next question, let's just say that the person recognizes that they have certain privileges. And I think you and I both talked about the fact that just you know, by virtue of being a lawyer we have certain privileges. I think that being Asian in many ways gives us certain privileges. Like then what, you know? It's like, then what do you do with that? So like, you admit you have certain privileges, like what's the next constructive step to take? Aditi: So I think there are two things. I think one is not allowing yourself to be used as like, so like you know there was this whole conversation online recently with the DOJ announcement around affirmative action that you know, Asian-Americans are not your model minority, that you're not going to hold me up as an example, you're not going to give me, I'm not going to climb this ladder of racial hierarchy, right? I'm not going to step on someone else so that I can get ahead. I'm not going to allow you to use me as an example to denigrate someone else. So I think just kind-of in conversation, especially when you kind of fall in the middle in one of those groups, to say that you're not going to use me to say that someone else should have been able to do what I did, right? Because I recognize my privilege. I had help, I had support. My parents, my dad's an MBA and my mom's a Ph.D. Like, it is not a fair comparison to compare me to someone whose parents didn't graduate high school and say that all Asians are, you know, you just can't make those generalizations. So I think first, not allowing yourself to be used as a pawn in someone else's game. And then second, I think leveraging your skills and abilities where you can to create more equity and justice. So as lawyers we have this unique opportunity, a large part of what I was doing on The Resistance Manual was trying to democratize information, was trying to say, "Hey, I can read through a legislative process and have some context and framework to understand what this means and how it works. Let me write it in basic language and share it so that others can also understand what this means." You know, I did videos and I posted them on Twitter when different health care bills came out, explaining to people, this is what it means for people getting health care through their employer. Get it this way, get it that way. So I think just sharing, trying to democratize information and knowledge. I mean, lawyers played a huge role in pushing back the Muslim ban just by showing up at airports and offering pro-bono help. Today, the announcement of DACA being rescinded was announced, and dreamers have what, a month to renew DACA. So I think lawyers can play a huge role in leveraging their privilege and their knowledge, both to educate the public that hey, you need to renew it, and also providing help to people. Even if it's like, you write an FAQ form you know and you post it somewhere, or you help explain the process and you kind-of share, "Hey these are the steps that you need to take if you want to do that," and you make that public. I realize that as lawyers we obviously have a concern about offering legal advice and the ways to do that, but I think those concerns shouldn't prevent us from using the knowledge that we're privileged to have, to share it with others and to help others kind of be active, make their lives better. It's just the process, a lot of it is not about offering specific legal advice, it's just about demystifying the process. People don't understand how rules and regulations work and agencies, people get confused about what their members of Congress do versus what happens in the States. And I think lawyers are uniquely positioned to help demystify. A lot of times the reason I think the public doesn't engage in activism is because the systems feel opaque, and as lawyers were uniquely privileged to make them less opaque. And that doesn't cost you anything and that's not risky in terms of providing legal advice. That's really just about like, "Hey I can explain how this process works in language that a normal human could understand." Jeena: Which is not an easy thing to do, let's just be clear about that. Aditi: It's not, but you can practice. Like it takes a lot of practice because we live in our special little world, but like if you have kids at home, if you can explain it to a 10-year-old, you're pretty good. That's pretty solid. I think that's actually a really good baseline. The basic reading level is at a fifth-grade reading level if you can find a 10-year-old and you can get them to understand it. You know. And also I think it's actually a good lawyering skill when you're talking to a jury when you're writing things, the simpler and clearer you can explain things the better. So I don't think it's, you know, I think that even opposing counsel and judges recognize when you're trying to you know, my legal writing professor used to say, "Don't try to sound smart. Be smart." Like your argument should stand on its own, you don't need to be pretentious with your vocabulary. You use words for precision, that's different, but the simpler and clearer you can write, the easier it is for someone to understand. If a judge has to read a paragraph three times, that's not good legal writing. The simpler and clearer you can write something and make your argument, the better. So I don't think it's, you know, I don't think it's like contrary to the mandate of lawyers, I think it just maybe feels a little uncomfortable. Jeena: I think that feels like a really great place to pause. For people that want to learn more about your work and your podcast, where is the best place to find it? So they can find my podcast at selfcaresundayspodcast.com. It's also on iTunes, Google Play, wherever podcasts are available. And to learn more about me and my work, you can check out my website which is my name, aditijuneja.me. And there's you know, articles I've written, projects I've worked on, speeches I've given, etc. Jeena: And you are very active on Twitter and people can find you on there @aditijuneja3, wonderful. Before I let you go, one final question. The name of this podcast is called The Resilient Lawyer. What does it mean to be a resilient lawyer to you? Aditi: A lawyer who allows themselves to feel what they're feeling, deal with it and keep going forward. Jeena: I love that. Aditi, thank you so much for joining me. It was such a delight chatting with you and I'm sure we'll be in touch. Aditi: Thank you so much for having me.   Closing Thanks for joining us on the Resilient Lawyer Podcast. If you've enjoyed the show, please tell a friend. It's really the best way to grow the show. To leave us a review on iTunes, search for the Resilient Lawyer and give us your honest feedback. It goes a long way to help with our visibility when you do that so we really appreciate it. 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In this episode of the podcast, we talk with probate attorney Cristin Silliman regarding what happens when someone dies without a will.  We seem to be losing many of our favorite artists and actors in 2016, and surprisingly many of them pass away without a will.  This leads to infighting between family members over an estate that could be worth millions of dollars.  Cristin helps clients plan for the inevitable, to keep your family secure in knowing what happens to your stuff when you pass away. Cristin is the owner of The Legacy Law Firm, LLC in Oldsmar, Florida. Cristin graduated from Florida Coastal School of Law in 2007.  She initially worked as an Assistant State Attorney in Clearwater, FL before opening her firm.  Cristin's website is http://www.thelegacylawfirmllc.com and she can be reached by email at cristins@thelegacylawfirmllc.com.  You can contact us at www.YesnerLaw.com or Shawn@YesnerLaw.com, and please visit our Facebook and other Social Media pages.  Thank you for listening to the Podcast, and we would very much appreciate if you would leave a positive review or comment if you enjoy the content.

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