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Mark Shaiken is the author of "Fresh Start," a legal thriller, and "And . . . Just Like That – essays on a life before, during and after the law." He is a survivor of a decades long career in the corporate bankruptcy trenches. 

He holds his B.A. from Haverford College and received his J.D. from Washburn University. He is a graduate of the Colorado Business Committee for the Arts’ Leadership Arts program. He holds seats on art boards, and sits on Habitat for Humanity - Metro Denver’s finance and audit committee. He now measures his life by what he gives and enjoys that immensely. Mark has started his next book “Automatic Stay,” a legal thriller as well. He lives in Denver with his spouse and their dog Emily.

Here's a link to Mark's books:
https://www.amazon.com/Books-Mark-Shaiken/s?rh=n%3A283155%2Cp_27%3AMark+Shaiken

You can find and connect with Mark on all social media. 

 Louis Goodman
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In collaboration with the Alameda County Bar Association, Love Thy Lawyer presents an interview with: Judge Delbert Gee.

Delbert C. Gee has been a Judge of the Superior Court of California (United States) in Alameda County since his appointment to the bench in 2002.[1] He currently presides over a civil direct calendar court in the Hayward Hall of Justice.[2]

Judge Gee previously presided over a probate, conservatorship, and guardianship court, a collaborative court, a civil direct calendar court, criminal felony and misdemeanor courts, and a juvenile dependency and delinquency court in the Oakland, Hayward, Alameda, and Berkeley courthouses. He has also been a supervising judge and a member of the court’s executive committee.

Alameda County Bar Association

The Alameda County Bar Association (ACBA) is a professional membership association for lawyers and other members of the legal profession. The ACBA provides access to ongoing legal education; and promotes diversity and civil rights in the Alameda County legal community. Our mission is to promote excellence in the legal profession and to facilitate equal access to justice.

 Louis Goodman
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Special thanks to ACBA staff and members: Cailin Dahlin, Saeed Randle, Hadassah Hayashi, Vincent Tong and Anne Beles. (https://www.acbanet.org/)

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Tom Ogas
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Being involved with the criminal court system is scary and stressful.  I get that.  My job is to make this as easy for you as possible.  Sometimes you need me to fight, sometimes you just need me manage.   Whatever you need, over the past 16 years I've done it all.   I've defended clients in jury trials whose lives were on the line.  I've helped negotiate and settle cases involving massive fraud and loss, keeping clients out of jail.  I can attack illegal searches and arrests with motions to dismiss, or talk down an aggressive District Attorney who's looking to throw the book at you.

I'll meet with you and talk over your case for free.  You can decide for yourself if I'm able to help.  My firm is client-centered, so we'll do things the way you want them, return your phone calls, and get the results you demand.

 Louis Goodman
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In collaboration with the Alameda County Bar Association, Love Thy Lawyer presents an interview with:

Don Nobles
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 925.974.3641 Office

Don Nobles is Of Counsel to Rains Lucia Stern St. Phalle & Silver, PC (“RLS”) and works with the firm’s Legal Defense Practice Group. He is a seasoned trial attorney and has represented peace officers in a variety of disciplinary matters as well as officer-involved shootings.

Don has over ten years of criminal litigation experience, including approximately 25 felony and misdemeanor trials. As a former prosecutor in the Alameda County District Attorney’s office, Don Nobles has handled juvenile court trials as well as over 1500 preliminary hearings including serious felonies and capital crimes.

Mr. Nobles completed his undergraduate studies at the University of California, Berkeley, where he majored in History and was a three-year letterman on the football team. He earned his law degree from the University of San Francisco School of Law.

Don Nobles is a member of the State Bar of California and is admitted to practice in courts throughout the State of California, along with the Northern District of the Federal courts in California.

Alameda County Bar Association

The Alameda County Bar Association (ACBA) is a professional membership association for lawyers and other members of the legal profession. The ACBA provides access to ongoing legal education; and promotes diversity and civil rights in the Alameda County legal community. Our mission is to promote excellence in the legal profession and to facilitate equal access to justice.

 Louis Goodman
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Special thanks to ACBA staff and members: Cailin Dahlin, Saeed Randle, Hadassah Hayashi, Vincent Tong and Jason Leong. (https://www.acbanet.org/)

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Host Louis Goodman talks about the origins of the show and some of the thoughts and observations he's made over the course of creating 100 episodes of the Love Thy Lawyer Podcast.

 Louis Goodman
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Charly Weisenbach

Alameda County District Attorney's Office

Charly Weissenbach is a Deputy District Attorney at the Alameda County DA's Office where she represents the People of the State of California on the special team prosecuting child sexual assault cases. Charly has been a Deputy District Attorney in Alameda County since 2013 and has been in the courtroom for jury trials ranging from misdemeanors to felonies including animal cruelty, domestic violence, murder, and child molest.   

 Charly grew up in the not-so-missed town of Lancaster, CA. For college, Charly attended San Diego State University where she earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in Political Science with a minor in Sociology. While there, she competed on the debate team, travelled abroad to Oxford and participated in the UCLA Law Fellows Program. After college, Charly attended Berkeley School of Law, at the time still named Boalt Hall. While there, she served as an Education Advocate for a foster youth with developmental disabilities, competed with their mock trial program and served as Editor-in-Chief for the Berkeley Journal of Criminal Law. Additionally, Charly worked at the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Southern District of California in their Criminal Division, served as an Extern to the Honorable Chief Judge Ware in the Northern District of California, and worked as a certified law clerk for the Alameda County District Attorney's Office.

 Louis Goodman
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In collaboration with the Alameda County Bar Association, Love Thy Lawyer presents an interview with: Chief Assistant District Attorney Annie Esposito.

https://www.alcoda.org/

Alameda County Bar Association

The Alameda County Bar Association (ACBA) is a professional membership association for lawyers and other members of the legal profession. The ACBA provides access to ongoing legal education; and promotes diversity and civil rights in the Alameda County legal community. Our mission is to promote excellence in the legal profession and to facilitate equal access to justice.

 Louis Goodman
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Special thanks to ACBA staff and members: Cailin Dahlin, Saeed Randle, Hadassah Hayashi, Vincent Tong and Jason Leong. (https://www.acbanet.org/)

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Lauren Blair
http://www.laurenblairconsulting.com/ 

Call Lauren Blair at 872-216-5365

In 2014, after 20 years of tenaciously representing clients in her diverse litigation practice that included commercial, family, employment and state environmental law, Lauren Blair started Lauren Blair Consulting (LBC), an employment law consulting firm in pursuit of a more collaborative legal practice that focuses on counseling individuals, entrepreneurs and businesses of all sizes and industries on strategies and solutions designed to facilitate employer-employee relations, improve workforce operations, enhance the workplace environment and manage the risk of employment law-related litigation.

Executives and corporate clients turn to Ms. Blair for thoughtful and sound advice on general employment law matters, including executive compensation, employment agreements, training and compliance.  Before starting LBC, Ms. Blair practiced employment law and commercial litigation at leading law firms in Chicago, Illinois, Los Angeles, California and Morristown, New Jersey. She has advised and represented businesses, ranging from sole proprietorships to Fortune 500 companies, on a wide variety of employment matters and in all phases of employment disputes and litigation, including appeals. Ms. Blair thrives on working closely with clients to learn their business and legal needs, and develop end-game strategies that deliver desired results.

Based in Chicago, Ms. Blair has clients throughout the country. She is currently licensed in Illinois, and held licenses in good standing in California and New Jersey. She received her Bachelor of Arts from Cornell University in 1991 and Juris Doctorate from Chicago-Kent College of Law in 1993. She also studied French in elementary school, high school and abroad at L'Universite Paris-Sorbonne in Paris, France, and is fluent in French. Ms. Blair is a staunch advocate of arts and culture and community engagement. She served on Goodman Theatre's Scenemakers Board for over 8 years and on Kohl Children's Museum Board for 2 years, and continues to dedicate her service to other Chicagoland arts, civic and community boards.

She has been a featured guest on several media programs including WYCC's In The Loop and Vocalo's The Morning AMp, and has appeared in multiple publications including the Chicago Sun-Times, TCW and Chicago Social. Ms. Blair is passionate about writing and from 2012 through 2014, she was a contributor to her Today's Chicago Woman magazine blog, Working It. In 2013, Ms. Blair recognized as one of five outstanding alumni in Chicago-Kent Magazine's 125th Anniversary issue.

 Louis Goodman
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Kelly Bagla of the Go Legal Yourself Podcast interviews Louis Goodman, the host of the Love Thy Lawyer Podcast.

https://www.golegalyourself.com/

When it comes to the law and starting your business, don't just trust your gut...

TRUST AN EXPERT
For many entrepreneurs, the idea of consulting a lawyer conjures up frightening visions of skyrocketing legal bills... while the idea of doing it themselves online without any human contact conjures up visions of mistakes being made and living with regret at having taken the easy way out.

It’s time to get the best of both worlds. It’s time to Go Legal Yourself!

Louis Goodman
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James Patrick Meehan

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University of San Francisco, School of Law, Juris Doctor, 1986 

 
Alameda County District Attorney’s Office
Assistant District Attorney 

California District Attorney’s Association, member, 1986-present 

Alameda County Prosecutors’ Association, member, 2019-present

California Homicide Investigators’ Association, member, 2013-present

Rotary International, Oakland Sunrise Rotary, member, 2001-2010; Club President (2005-2006)

Educational Involvements

 Chabot College, Administration of Justice Program, Adjunct Instructor, 2016 to present

Las Positas College, Administration of Justice Program, Adjunct Instructor, 2014 to present

Stanford Law School, Trial Advocacy Program, Instructor, 2009 to present

 Board Memberships

 Chabot College, Paralegal Studies Program Advisory Board, 2018 to Present

Las Positas College Administration of Justice Advisory Board, 2014 to Present

Other Professional Experiences

Institute for the Study and Development of Legal Systems (ISDLS)

 Member of a four-person delegation which participated in a United States State Department sponsored legal conference in Cairo, Egypt

Group Study Exchange (GSE), Rotary International

 Sponsored by the San Lorenzo Rotary Club.  Member of a team of five non-Rotarian professionals and a Rotarian team leader in a cultural exchange program between Rotary District 5170 (greater East and South Bay Areas) and Rotary District 9250 (Republic of South Africa, Zimbabwe, Mozambique, Swaziland, and Malawi).  

Cornerstone Fellowship (Livermore Campus)

 Member, 2006 to Present.  Active in the Men’s Ministry, Prayer Team, and a weekly Community Group.  Active supporter, through Cornerstone Fellowship partnerships, of Mercy and Grace Prison Ministries, Tri-Valley Seek and Save Ministry, and Aruka House, a transitional housing and spiritual support ministry for men.

 Bay Area Men’s Senior Baseball League (BAMSBL)

 AAA White Sox (1992-1996) Catcher, First baseman, Outfielder.  PCL/35+/38+ Barons (1997-2007) Catcher, First baseman, Outfielder, Pitcher, Manager (1998-2006), League Champions, 2004, 2005, 2007.  38+/50+ Seals (2009-Present) Catcher, First baseman, Outfielder, League Champions, 2009, 2019.  Inducted into BAMSBL Hall of Fame (2003).

 Louis Goodman
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 Louis Goodman
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