Episodes - Page 4 | Love thy Lawyer

May 17, 2023

James Rodriguez - Alameda County Assistant Public Defender

James Rodriguez is a highly accomplished Alameda County Public Defender, boasting an impressive track record of over 20 years. Throughout his extensive career, he has adeptly handled a diverse range of cases, ranging from misdemeanors to high-stakes felony offenses, including assault, attempted mur…

May 10, 2023

Burning Woman: Laura Robinson - UC Law / San Francisco

Throughout her 34-year career, Laura Robinson has tried over 78 cases, with the majority resulting in jury verdicts. As a Contra Costa County Public Defender for over 15 years, she has handled a considerable number of felony matters, including rape, kidnapping, and murder. Since 2004, she has been …

May 3, 2023

The Client - Tom Silva / San Leandro

Tom Silva is a businessperson who has been in the real estate business since 1980. He owns Eden Realty in San Lorenzo, California, and routinely deals with lawyers and the legal system when developing, rehabilitating, and managing residential and commercial property. In this interview Tom talks abo…

April 26, 2023

Senior Assistant District Attorney Cynthia Chandler - Harvard

Cynthia Chandler boasts an impressive legal career spanning over 20 years, during which she has co-founded multiple social justice organizations, including the Oakland Eviction Defense Center, Critical Resistance, and Justice Now. In addition, she served as the director of the Alameda County Bar As…

April 19, 2023

Reefer Sanity (ACBA) - Shay Gilmore / UT Austin

In collaboration with the Alameda County Bar Association, Love Thy Lawyer presents an interview with: Shay Gilmore Shay Gilmore is a highly accomplished attorney who runs a successful solo practice focused on corporate, commercial, and regulatory matters in the cannabis industry. He previously wo…

April 12, 2023

Pam Ortiz - Golden Gate

Meet Pam Ortiz, a skilled criminal defense lawyer and a Bay Area native with a wealth of experience in the legal field. After years of working in employment issues as a civil litigator, she found her true calling in criminal defense. Her impressive legal career includes serving as a prosecutor for …

April 5, 2023

Twins Roundtable - Identical Ahmeds

Practicing law in different counties can be a fascinating experience, as each county has its own unique nuances. Join the roundtable conversation as we compare and contrast court practices in Alameda, Contra Costa, San Mateo, and Santa Clara counties. Participating this week are Nafiz Ahmed, a cert…

March 29, 2023

Practicing in Kiev, Kabul / Bribing Cops in Moscow - Jamie Bowman

As an attorney, practicing law overseas can be an incredibly rewarding experience, but it can also come with its own set of challenges. Jamie Bowman, a Bay Area lawyer with legal roots in San Jose, chronicles her professional and personal adventures as an international legal consultant working in U…

March 22, 2023

ACBA President (2022) Pamela Ross - All For the Family Legal Clinic

Pamela Ross is the founder and CEO of the All for The Family Legal Clinic, a nonprofit that offers services to low income and modest means litigants, charging on a sliding scale from as low as $50 an hour. They help clients mostly with family law matters such as divorces, custody, support and restr…

March 15, 2023

International Law / Hans Sperling - Tulane

Hans Sperling is the founder of the Sperling Law Corporation. Known as the Deal Lawyer, he is a renowned corporate transactional lawyer with extensive experience in protecting businesses' legal interests through contracts and international transactions. As a son of a diplomat, he lived in diverse c…

March 8, 2023

Totally - Family Law / Renee Ross - Golden Gate

Renee Ross is one of the happiest family lawyers you’ll ever meet. She runs a successful boutique family law firm with 12 employees in Pleasanton. Her journey to family law was preceded by her involvement in civil litigation and personal injury law, but it was in family law that she discovered her …

March 1, 2023

Lawyer Stories - Benny Gold (Brother from Another Mother)

Benny Gold, a licensed attorney in Connecticut, Maine, and Massachusetts, has established himself as the esteemed host of the Lawyer Stories podcast, which boasts a significant following of over 54,000 on Instagram and over 8,000 on Facebook. The Lawyer Stories podcast is more than just a project f…

Feb. 22, 2023

Horse Sense / Kim Kupferer - Stanford

Kim Kupferer built a remarkable career as an Alameda County Public Defender for over 15 years before going into private practice. She was renowned for her exceptional preparation and unwavering commitment to fighting for her clients and was recognized for her fair and ethical approach and her deep …

Feb. 15, 2023

Terror Attack Leads to Bench - Hon. Glenn Kim (ACBA) - USF

Judge Glenn Kim had over twenty years of experience as a prosecutor before taking the bench at the Contra Costa County Superior Court in January of 2022. He decided to pursue a career in law to fight back after 3 members of his family died on 9/11. Judge Kim started as an intern at the San Francisc…

Feb. 8, 2023

Jeopardy Champ Megan Wachspress - Yale

Megan Wachspress’ impressive academic endeavors include earning a Bachelor of Science and a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Chicago, a master’s degree from Cambridge, a Ph.D. in Jurisprudence and Social Policy from UC Berkeley as well as JD from Yale. She originally wanted to be a professor…

Feb. 1, 2023

PD to Judge - Hon. Michelle Tong / SF Superior Court

Judge Michelle Tong was a trial attorney for the San Francisco Public Defender’s Office for over 15 years before taking the bench at the San Francisco Superior Court. She was born in Toronto and moved to Sacramento with her parents when she was 8. While in college in Santa Cruz, she studied abroad …

Jan. 25, 2023

Personal Freedom: Gary Miles - Loyola

Gary Miles is an attorney, entrepreneur, podcaster and life coach with a career that spans over 43 years. He is a managing partner at boutique litigation law firm Huesman, Jones & Miles. Nowadays he mostly handles family law but has also tried countless personal injury and insurance defense cases o…

Jan. 18, 2023

Vicki Jensen, Santa Clara - Bartender to DUI Pro

Vicki Jensen went from serving up drinks as a bartender to defending clients from DUIs as a criminal defense attorney. She has clerked for the Los Angeles District Attorney’s Office, the Santa Cruz Public Defender’s Office as well as the Alameda County Public Defender’s Office, and after trying out…

Jan. 11, 2023

My Case & LawMatics Founder: Matt Spiegel

After spending five years as a criminal defense attorney and receiving a bar complaint for not calling back a client on time, Matt Spiegel developed a legal case management software so that law firms could keep better track of cases and communicate with their clients more effectively, and thus MyCa…

Jan. 4, 2023

ACBA President Alice Cheng - Davis

In collaboration with the Alameda County Bar Association, Love Thy Lawyer presents an interview with: Alice Cheng Alice Cheng was born in Hong Kong and moved to San Francisco when she was a kid and speaks Cantonese and Mandarin. As the managing attorney at the Candelaria Law Firm, she handles all…

Nov. 16, 2022

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

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

Nov. 9, 2022

Simone Chambliss - Red Metric Law

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

Nov. 2, 2022

Mark Willis - Whole Life Insurance as Banking Alternative

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

Oct. 26, 2022

Leave Depression Behind: Go to Law School - Dannie DeNovo

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