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Today’s guest is Ari Stiller, a fellow appellate attorney, law nerd and English Major. 

He picked a wonderful book that I am sorry I spent so much of my life not having experienced: Plainsong by Kent Haruf. I hope you’ve read it. And if you haven’t, I hope this discussion makes you want to.

You can read more about Ari on his website at https://www.stillerlawfirm.com/

Book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plainsong_(novel)

 Author speaking about the book: https://www.goodreads.com/videos/92292-kent-haruf-speaks-about-his-novel-plainsong

You can find out more about Michael Jeandron (and even Jeff Roberts) on their website: https://www.robertslawfirm.net/?utm_campaign=gmb

Follow Michael on Instagram - he posts great content: @lawyer.dad

IMDB for Liar Liar: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0119528/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1 

Today's guest is Aaron Hicks, a personal injury attorney with offices in Southern California and Nashville, Tennessee. Learn more about him and the work he does at his website: https://www.hickslawfirm.com/ 

Also, follow him on Instagram: @hickslawfirm

Today’s guest is Vince Howard, a trial attorney here in Southern California. He’s a partner at the Law offices of Ted B. Wacker, and they focus on catastrophic injury cases. Vince chose the miniseries BlackBird on Apple TV. 

The series is based on the true story of a convicted drug dealer who is tapped to move to a maximum security prison for the criminally insane to elicit a confession from a serial killer. There is a book called: “In With The Devil: A Fallen Hero, A Serial Killer, and A Dangerous Bargain for Redemption” by James Keene and Hillel Levin.

You can read more about Vince and his work here: http://tbwlawfirm.com/8098-2/

Trailer for Blackbird: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aH1FOkJys3Y

Info about Blackbird can be found here: https://www.imdb.com/news/ni63950101

Wikipedia on Larry Hall, the serial killer: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larry_Hall_(suspected_serial_killer)#:~:text=Due%20to%20some%20of%20the,Correctional%20Complex%20in%20North%20Carolina.

Today’s guest is Geraldine Ly, a trial attorney here in Southern California who focuses on workers compensation and personal injury law on the plaintiff / claimant side. 

You can read more about Geraldine on her website https://www.geraldinely-law.com/

And follow her on tiktok: @chefmommag  

I initially got the info about the book’s controversy from this Indiewire article: https://www.indiewire.com/2022/07/where-the-crawdads-sing-controversy-delia-owens-explained-1234741370/ 

Sylvia is back to discuss Book Two of the ACOTAR series – A Court of Mist and Fury – by Sarah J. Maas. I enjoyed this novel so much – even more than the first. There are a couple more books in the series, so I’m sure Sylvia will be back. 

You can read more about Sylvia on her website at https://smayerlaw.com/attorney/

She also recommends a book called Binti by Nnedi Okorafor. Here is a link to information on that: https://nnedi.com/books/the-binti-series/

I gave no intro this week because I have a terrible cold. There were a few audio issues in this episode which I hope you'll forgive. I missed doing this, and I am happy to be back! 

As you recall, Ronan is a trained Barrister from Ireland who now tries cases with at The Homampour Law Firm.  Here is a link to his bio: https://www.homampour.com/ronan-duggan/

Follow him on Instagram too! @barristerinlaridesagain 

Ronan is a trained Barrister from Ireland, who made his way here through dangers untold to Southern California where he faced the Beast that is the California Bar Exam. We worked together somewhat at the Simon Law Group, and now he tries cases at The Homampour Law Firm. But what you should really do is follow him on Instagram - @barristerinla

For this episode, Ronan chose Dune, by Frank Herbert. https://dunenovels.com/

Melissa Cohen is a Family Law Attorney in New Jersey. Read more about her and the work she does here: https://www.seidenfamilylaw.com/our-team/36-melissa-e-cohen 

Today's book is One Two Three by Laurie Frankel. https://www.lauriefrankel.net/one-two-three.html 

Grace Waddell is an associate attorney at the Simon Law Group. She just concluded her first trial – a Federal bench trial, and she’s got more amazingness coming up. You can read more about her and her work here: https://www.thesimonlawgroup.com/team/grace-waddell/

Find all things Harry Potter at www.pottermore.com

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