Official Lawyer Minds Podcast

F. Paul Bland, Jr. has spent his legal career fighting for consumer rights through his work at Pub-lic Justice. Paul has argued and won more than 40 cases involving consumer protection, employ-ee, and whistleblower rights, including arguing cases before the United States Supreme Court and six of the U.S. Court of Appeals. Paul sits down with Tad and Mike to discuss his work at Public Justice, as well as the importance that trial lawyers play in ensuring consumer rights are protected around the county.

Joel Feldman’s mission to end distracted driving started in tragedy. In 2009, his daughter, Casey Feldman, was struck and killed by a distracted driver. Since that time, Joel has made it his life’s mission to stop distracted driving through his nationally known and recognized awareness program, End Distracted Driving.

Traveling across the country to speak to schools, businesses, and other lawyers, Joel has not just raised awareness about the dangers of distracted driving, but has trained an army of professionals who have spread his message throughout their communities. Through his work, Joel has undoubtedly saved countless lives and changed the national conversation on distracted driving. 

Joel joins Tad and Mike to discuss the importance of ending distracted driving and how lawyers can share End Distracted Driving’s message in their communities.

To get involved with End Distracted Driving, please visit: https://www.enddd.org

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Angela Edwards of Lawyers Mutual of Kentucky joins Tad and Mike to talk about the importance of active risk mitigation in your law firm and the importance of having malpractice insurance to protect yourself against claims.

As lawyers who handle serious matters with far-reaching consequences, we can all have sleepless nights thinking about potential claims or pitfalls we’re not aware of. In this episode, Angela explains that malpractice insurers like Lawyers Mutual of Kentucky are looking to cooperate with their insureds to minimize risk to a lawyer’s practice so the lawyer can sleep well at night!

To learn more about Lawyers Mutual of Kentucky, please visit: https://www.lmick.com/

Kelsey Starks is a media consultant in Louisville, KY, who trains professionals on how to productively with the press and how to develop professional relationships with reporters. Kelsey’s experience includes working an associate producer for Court TV, a reporter for WCIV news, as well as Co-Anchor of “Good Morning Kentuckiana” on Louisville’s ABC affiliate. Drawing on these experiences, Kelsey now focuses her work as a media consultant training professionals, including trial lawyers, on the best practices of developing a public relations strategy with the press and how to appear professionally in front of the camera. In this interview, Kelsey discusses her background, what drew her interest to the legal field, and how lawyers can take basic steps to navigate working with the media.

To contact Kelsey and learn how you can work with her to “be your best self on camera…and beyond,”, please visit: https://www.kelseystarks.com/

To learn more about Kelsey and her work in the community, check out her interview in “Making a Difference” for Louisville’s local PBS channel: https://www.ket.org/making-a-differen...

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Brett Emison of Langdon and Emison is a nationally known trial attorney who is heavily involved in both the Missouri Association of Trial Attorneys and the American Association of Justice. In fact, Brett just finished a term as President of the Missouri Association of Trial Attorneys (“MATA”) during one of the more challenging and unique years any President has faced. Beyond his time in the Missouri Capitol as President of MATA, Brett has spent countless hours meeting with National, State, and local legislators advocating for the rights of his clients and tort victims across the State. As “tort reform” measures continue to sweep the country, Brett talks about how developing relationships with state and local legislators play a crucial role in putting a face and name to the trial bar and to the importance of ensuring our clients’ 7th Amendment rights are protected.

To learn more about Brett and his practice, please visit his firm’s site: https://www.langdonemison.com/brett-a-emison

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Automated vehicles are the future for travel and shipping on American roadways — but significant questions still exist about how safe those vehicles are for human and commercial use. Implicit in those questions are issues about who has legal responsibility for a defective part or a defective vehicle, as well as ethical considerations about how this technology should be implemented.

Thankfully, the American Association for Justice is taking these issues head on and is working with Congress and state legislatures across the country to ensure that this new technology poses as little risk to society as possible and to ensure that the people and companies behind manufacturing faulty vehicles can be held accountable by those they harm.

In this episode we sit down with Daniel Hinkle, AAJ’s State Affairs Counsel, and trial attorney Elise Sanguinetti to discuss these issues and more.

To contact or learn more about Elise, please visit her firm page: https://aswtlawyers.com/attorneys/elise-r-sanguinetti/

To learn more about Daniel, check out his LinkedIn® page: https://www.linkedin.com/in/danielhinkle/

The American Association for Justice’s Trial Lawyers’ Care (TLC) is a committee of AAJ that serves to encourage, recognize and organize trial lawyers who contribute to their communities through volunteer and charitable activities that serve the public good.  Founded shortly after the attacks on September 11, 2001, Trial Lawyers Care gives members of the American Association for Justice the opportunity to step in and serve communities in need of legal help and support.

Mike and Tad sit down with Brenda Fulmer and Karen Schroeder, 2020 co-chairs of Trial Lawyers Care to discuss the committee's upcoming goals and vision for 2020.

To learn more about the American Association for Justice or Trial Lawyers Care, please visit: https://web.justice.org/trial-lawyers-care-0

Katherine James is a nationally known trial consultant who specializes in live communication based on the discipline of theater. Katherine has worked with over 40,000 attorneys across the country through ACT of Communication workshops she developed with her husband and fellow trial consultant, Alan Blumenfeld. Katherine joins Tad and Mike to discuss her new book, “Harvesting Witnesses’ Stories: How to Get Your Client the Second-Best Life in the World by Maximizing damages.”

To purchase Katherine’s new book, please visit: https://www.justice.org/resources/publications/aaj-press

To learn more about working with Katherine, please visit: http://actofcommunication.com/katherine-james-trial-consultant-playwright-actor-katherine-james

Cheryl Pope is the Founder of Carlton Human Capital, a consulting service that helps law firms (and businesses of all varieties) develop strategical and leadership plans as well as provides executive coaching and employee engagement.

Cheryl joins Tad and Mike to talk about the challenges business owners face during the COVID-19 pandemic and how business owners can communicate with their staff during this difficult time.

One of the key tips Cheryl has is to determine the communication style of each member of your team and how you can work with those communication styles to create cohesion in your firm. Cheryl is presenting this year at American Association for Justice’s “Amped Up,” a program that you will not want to miss!

To learn more about Cheryl and Carlton Human Capital, please visit: https://www.carltonhumancapital.com

Tobi Millrood is a partner at the firm Pogust Millrood in suburban Philadelphia, PA, and is also President-elect of the American Association for Justice.

Tobi joins Tad and Mike to discuss his upcoming year as President of the American Association for Justice and how he plans to lead the organization, while also maintaining a law practice and directing his caseload.

Tobi also shares a very personal story—the loss of his mother, Sylvia, to COVDI-19.   Unfortunately, as we’ve often seen in the past few months, Sylvia’s contraction of COVID-19 occurred at a nursing home where 20 other patients died, and dozens fell ill. Tobi detailed the tragic circumstances of his mother’s death in an article he wrote for the New York Times entitled, “Why is Mitch McConnell Protecting Nursing Homes?” In the podcast, Tobi shares his mother’s story and the story of her life, illuminating the person who was tragically lost to an illness she should’ve never been exposed to, had the nursing home taken preventative measures. Tobi’s experience with this tragedy has compelled him to fight the nursing home industry in its attempts to obtain blanket immunity from civil lawsuits which may hold them responsible for Sylvia’s deaths and countless others.

To read Tobi’s article, please visit: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/20/opinion/nursing-homes-coronavirus-liability.html

To learn more about Tobi’s practice, check out: https://www.pogustmillrood.com/tobias-l-millrood/