Caren Van Slyke, one of the leaders of Oak Parkers for Free Speech, and Andrew Herrera, a lobbyist, consultant and principal of Herrera Strategy, discuss efforts to put an advisory referendum on the Oak Park November Ballot about whether the state of Illinois should repeal laws that ban state investment in businesses that boycott the state of Israel and proposed Illinois legislation (HB 2723) introduced by Representative Abdelnasser Rashid that seeks to repeal Illinois' anti-boycott/anti-BDS laws.

From family law litigation to mediation and broader concepts of conflict resolution, collaborative problem solving, restorative justice, peacemaking, trauma and psychological factors, continuing education, the spirit of the practice of law and more

Restorative justice, work/professional life as a mission, fundraising v sales, intersection of faith and policy and more

Intresections of Immigration, Palestine and civil rights in the City of Chicago with 25th Ward Alderman Byron Sigcho-Lopez who is currently running for Congress in Illinois' 4th District. This discussion was recorded in November of 2025 for a diffrent platform but is being published here instead with permission from all parties.

"Extra-curricular" advocacy as central to lawyering, first amendment/free speech issues, intersections of justice from Gaza to domestic civil right suppression, mitigating cognitive bias, principles of veganism and more.

Law & advocacy as a calling, immigration law practice in the context of weaponized immigration policy, ICE & militarization of communities, navigating clients through trauma & uncertainty, justifying philosophy degrees and more

The great American lawyer, philosopher and U.S. Dept. of Justice veteran Bruce Fein on civics, structural democracy, constitutional law, foreign policy, human nature and the roles of lawyers and citizens in maintaining liberty and equality in the face of consolidated power, corruption and tyranny.

Jeff's work monitoring, documenting and exposing right wing ethnonationalist movements including in relation to the Trump administration and MAGA, broader discussion of nationalism and patriotism in the context of liberal pluralistic democracy, linguistics, semantics, word games, rhetorical branding and domestic democracy, civil rights and rule of law degradation against the backdrop and because of foreign conflict engagements and "forever wars."

Naval and community service, criminal justice reform including death penalty abolition and elder parole, continuing education, international securites and futures regulation and litigation and more with retired big law partner William Nissen.

Service and leadership through the Judicial Evaluations Committee of The Chicago Bar Association, motivations for becoming a lawyer and dedication to rule of law, the role of the judiciary in democracy, reflections on the current state of the judiciary and democracy, the importance of civics and an educated public and the value of local engagement and action.