A trend-setter, a trend-challenger, and a trend-analyzer, Prof. Jen Leonard leads programs on innovation and the future of the profession at the University of Penn law school. Her work takes her to places like the renowned consulting firm McKinsey, where she has discussed topics such as: how great it could be to be a lawyer. […]

Ashley is a sharer, storyteller, and thinker. Founder and host of the no straight path podcast, Ashley’s podcast work focuses on highlighting the story behind success, believing that story is often shared too late, like at a eulogy or a memoir. It’s a podcast offering an evergreen snapshot of guests who are mid-journey. Ashley is […]

Nick Fogle is a story about higher education, student loans, switching careers, and paying off a quarter million dollars in debt. Hello, adulting. Today, you’ll find Nick as the founder and CEO of Churnkey: an integration with a SaaS company’s billing provider to save SaaS companies immediately. In short, Nick has a mousetrap helping reduce […]

For 16 years, Professor William Janssen was a litigation partner at a white shoe law firm, Saul Ewing, For the last 10, he has been a law professor at the Charleston School of Law. A cursory review of ratemyprofessors.com says Professor Janssen is caring, challenging, passionate, enthusiastic, and accessible. His subject matter expertise from an […]

Jim Buxton is the most well-known member of the Porter-Gaud chain gang. He’s certainly the most passionate. At least that’s our guess. To know Jim is to know unbridled passion whether it’s going all out for an office seasonal sweater party or berating a ref for a bad spot. Passion never sleeps. In life, Jim […]

The son of a public school teacher and the grandson of an entrepreneurial grandmother, Brian Collie is an old soul. A real estate lawyer in Charleston, South Carolina, commercial and residential, Brian’s life passions are his family, his friends, and Clemson football. As an attorney, Brian has done all the things: has his name on […]

Rob Harrington is Charlotte-famous. A lawyer at Robinson Bradshaw, you cannot be a lawyer in Charlotte and not know Rob. His colleague once remarked that as Jerry West is to the NBA logo so would Rob Harrington be to the human lawyer podcast. He’s not wrong.    Rob’s awards and recognitions are too numerous to […]

Today we meet Sabrina Winters, an estate planning attorney in Charlotte, NC, and the person who goes to work with one mission: how can she make her clients smile today? Smiling can be tricky in her work as she helps people plan for the days when they’re no longer on this earth. To Sabrina’s clients, […]

Meet Jennee DeVore, a mom of three, and the head of legal at Inflammatix, a biotech research company reimagining diagnostics by reading the immune system. A quick survey of social media suggests that either her favorite, or her family’s favorite, pastime is America’s pastime, and in particular the San Francisco Giants. It’s been a good […]

Ann Groninger leads the Charlotte lawyer way in bike and outdoor enthusiasm. Her practice marries a passion for advocating for individuals and for bicycling culture, especially interested in representing victims of bicycle crashes. Ann is a trial attorney by experience which is owed, in part to her formative years at Cumberland County Public Defender’s Office. […]

Today we meet Sara Ellis, an attorney from Nashville, TN, who has parlayed her experience as a commercial litigator to a role of serving other lawyers as executive director of the lawyer depression project. To do this work, Sara has supplemented her legal education with a Master of Science in Social Work from the University […]

Alyssa Levine is ubiquitous in the Charlotte community: from Justice Initiatives to the Charlotte Women’s Bar, to the Jewish Community Center. If it’s Charlotte, it’s Alyssa. Since returning to Charlotte after working in the Bay Area and Boston, Alyssa devotes her life to families in search of a new way. Alyssa’s commitment to Charlotte and […]

Aliza Shatzman is accountable. An attorney and advocate based in Washington, DC, Aliza writes and speaks on judicial accountability. Her dream was to be a homicide prosecutor in the D.C. federal prosecutor’s office. Then life happened. Can’t plan it. Never predictable. In March 2022, Aliza submitted a Statement of the Record for a House of […]

  Maureen Frangopoulos (Moe as she’s known on the socials) is a lawyer and leader at Uber. Her colloquial explanation of her work is informed by Downton Abbey’s Lady Grantham: she doesn’t argue; she explains. She’s a leader at Uber because of her investment in her team. During peak pandemic times, Maureen leaned into taking […]

Today, we meet the world’s best fighter pilot, who’s also a lawyer, General Mike Wholley. The journey to being a fighter pilot, a Vietnam war veteran, then becoming General Counsel at NASA is winding, as one might expect. But the briefest of conversations with Mike begin to shed light on how that might have been […]

When you meet Scott Addison, you feel like family, which sorta makes sense because a mere mention of his family brings a warm, wide smile. But don’t let Scott’s soft demeanor fool you: he’s competitive. When the lights go on, he comes out in an understated way because to Scott, there is no try: you […]

Christine Uri’s current journey started with an ending, leaving a law firm she had been a part of for eight years in search of a greater purpose. After 5 months of soul-searching, 125+ coffees with government, education, non-profit, and business leaders, she found Engie Impact–a global consulting sustainability company. Christine is on the ESG frontier. […]

Asma Makni is a lawyer in Paris, France who leads the legal function at Equify, a company on a mission to fix how European enterprises manage equity and stockholders. Asma and her company are enablers in today’s digital age helping people and companies implement better alternatives. Asma’s prior experience includes working as legal counsel for […]

Dancing in the rain with Ryan Alshak, the CEO and founder of Time by Ping. Preparing for this episode brings this truth to life: we all have a superpower. What’s yours? Ryan’s is his mom, who’s now his guardian angel. She ascended into guardian status right after he achieved a monumental professional feat: closing his […]

Zebras don’t change their stripes, or do they? Terry Falk identifies himself as an ex-lawyer, but that’s not really true. At least we don’t think so. You’ll find Terry at My Case and Law Pay’s parent company, AffiniPay. Law Pay is the ubiquitous payment processing company for law firms and law businesses. That’s probably a […]

Patricia Prato-Casado is a corporate lawyer with an MBA whose experience, tenacity, and diligence have led her to ClearEstate, a company democratizing estate administration in North America. For those who’ve dealt with estate administration, you know the process can feel inhumane. Unwinding the affairs of a person feels so transactional. Perhaps the transient nature of […]

Jason Jones is the founder of a pioneer law firm where he focuses on reducing lawsuits with proactive trust and estate planning and thoughtful trust and estate administration. If a dispute does arise, Jason practices exclusively collaborative law methods for resolving trust, estate, and power of attorney disputes outside the courtroom in order to control […]

It’s Matts’s law: meet Matt Margolis, head of community at Lawtrades and a member of the blue check brigade. If not, he’s close. How’d he get his blue check? Here are a few examples: Lawyers are going to be replaced by computers? Computers can’t go golfing with a judge. Per my last email . . […]

Jasmine Pitt is a servant leader.  Although she handles complex litigation matters for a national law firm, what has always struck me about her is her humility and compassion for those she serves.  In addition to managing a full caseload, Jasmine prioritizes serving and leading within the local and statewide bar associations as well as […]