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Today’s guest is Nathaniel Brown, an attorney practicing in Long Beach, California handling personal injury cases as well as business / contract disputes and litigation and landlord / tenant cases. You can find out more about him at http://nsb3law.com/

He’s on Instagram @nathanielsbrown

We discussed the Movie Jury Duty starring Pauly Shore: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0113500/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0 

Today’s guest is introduced as Kerri Ranney, who is not only an attorney, but she also a trained and licensed architect, working to design schools and classrooms in a way that helps facilitate and enhance children’s learning.

Google her! 

She chose The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand, and I read the WHOLE THING. 

https://aynrand.org/novels/the-fountainhead/

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Bryan is currently pursuing a PhD in in American Culture Studies at Bowling Green State University. His areas of interest include comics studies, queer and femninist studies, gender & sexuality, disability studies, YA novels (specifically queer YA and 1990s supernatural romance), and pop music of the 1990s and early 2000s.

Read about him and see his artwork at www.nerdbove.com

Find him on Twittter and Instagram as @nerdbove

Book: http://andreweliopulos.com/new-page-1 

Today's guest is Ozgun Tumer, a business attorney here in Orange County, California. Read more about his work here: https://tumersharif.com/

We discussed Njal's Saga, an Icelandic Saga. 

Njal's Saga on Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nj%C3%A1ls_saga

 

Njal's Saga on Britannica: https://www.britannica.com/topic/Njals-saga

The Law Rock: https://uncouthreflections.com/2013/04/13/the-law-rock/?fbclid=IwAR0lVsiPtPd0feFYSOWSNEL5y7uoSNokuheezjyAdnnQnZf6P0SyfogR9Kk  

Sharon Zinns is a personal injury lawyer in Atlanta Georgia. She has represented clients across the country in a wide range of occupations who developed mesothelioma or other cancers after being exposed to the toxic substance, asbestos. She is licensed in six states, and a bunch of federal courts across the country too. She is badass. 

Read more about her work here: http://zinnslaw.com/

You can find her on Instagram and Twitter as @zinnslaw

We Discussed Cider House Rules by John Irving, 

Book: https://john-irving.com/the-cider-house-rules/

Movie: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0124315/

We also referenced the John Irving Blog, and here is a link to that: https://john-irving.com/

This week's guest is Kristin Braithwaite, Assistant Regional Counsel at the Department of Children and Families in Massachusetts. She is so brave and vulnerable in this episode, talking about her own experiences as a widow and the aftermath of losing her husband after a surgical procedure.

 

Find out more about the book and its author here: https://www.catherinetidd.com/

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

She can be found on Instagram @melissapen123

For information about the book, check out https://www.tokillamockingbird.com/ 

Andrea Padley Montini is a family lawyer from Annapolis Maryland. You can read more about her work here: http://www.krohnlawannapolis.com/bio-andrea-padley-montini

She can be found on both Instagram as @apadleyus 

 

On this episode we discuss: 

The Pout-Pout Fish by Deborah Diesen - https://poutpoutfish.com/books/

 

The Book with No Pictures by BJ Novak - https://thebookwithnopictures.com/

 

Dragons Love Tacos by Adam Rubin - https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/309024/dragons-love-tacos-by-adam-rubin-illustrated-by-daniel-salmieri/

This week’s guest is Anna Petosky, a criminal prosecutor from Minneapolis, Minnesota. This woman is a powerhouse attorney, a wonderful mother with a gift for costumes, and she is hands down the most voracious reader I know. 

We discussed Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crime_and_Punishment

We referenced: “Trial by Jury: A Western or Peculiarly Russian Model?” Review International de Droit Penal – Vol. 72 (2001) pp. 365-370 https://www.cairn.info/revue-internationale-de-droit-penal-2001-1-page-365.htm

“The Reasons for Reintroducing Trial by Jury in Russia” Review International de Droit Penal – Vol. 72 (2001) 253-257 https://www.cairn.info/revue-internationale-de-droit-penal-2001-1-page-253.htm

Travis Davis is a legal writer extraordinaire and head of the Bad Faith Litigation Department and the law and motion team at the Simon Law Group. Read more about him here: https://www.thesimonlawgroup.com/team/travis-davis/

He can be found on Instagram as @travised  

You can also follow his collecting pursuits on Instagram at @vinyl_and_vinyl

 

More about the book at: https://www.jonkrakauer.com/books/into-the-wild-tr

Into the Wild Soundtrack Info: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Into_the_Wild_(soundtrack)

 

Each week on Lawterature, I invite an attorney guest to choose a work of literature and analyze it with me from a legal standpoint. For purposes of this podcast, the term “literature” will be defined as: any book, movie, television series, podcast, song, or other storytelling vehicle.

 

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