Tom Peabody is an Assistant U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Illinois. Prior to becoming an AUSA, Tom worked at Katten in Chicago, and clerked for the Honorable Amy St. Eve first at the district court level in the Northern District of Illinois and later on the Seventh Circuit. 

Tom is a graduate of Washington University School of Law, in St. Louis, and DePaul University in Chicago. 

*All views expressed in this episode are those of Tom Peabody, not of the U.S. Attorney's Office or the Department of Justice.

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Christina Otero Geeza is a partner at Otero Geeza Law in Miami, Florida. She has a broad corporate practice with a concentration on various types of lending transactions and real estate matters, as well as trust and estate matters.

Prior to moving back home to Miami, Christina worked at Katten Muchin Rosenman in Chicago in the commercial finance department, where her practice focused on representing senior secured lenders, second lien lenders, mezzanine lenders, and borrowers in asset-based lending. 

Prior to her legal career, Christina worked as an analyst in Institutional Equity Sales at Goldman Sachs, and as an associate in Private Wealth Management at J.P. Morgan Chase. 

Christina is a graduate of Princeton University, where was a member of the women’s crew team for four years, and a graduate of the Northwestern University Pritzker School of Law’s Accelerated JD Program. 

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Zac Byer is the Director of Litigation and Intellectual Property at Activision Blizzard. Prior to going in-house, Zac worked at Kirkland & Ellis in both Washington, D.C. and California, where he started as an associate and later made partner. He has also worked at King & Spalding in their Los Angeles Office, and he clerked on the Sixth Circuit for the Honorable Deborah L. Cook.  

Zac is a 2010 graduate from the University of Pennsylvania, and a 2014 graduate from the University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School.

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Chris Louis-Jacques is a 3L at the University of Georgia School of Law in Athens, Georgia. He will graduate from UGA Law in May 2025. Chris serves on the editorial board of the Georgia Journal of International and Comparative Law, was a Teaching Assistant for Professor Anna Howard’s Legal Writing Class, and spoke at the 2024 HBCU Pre-Law Summit last September.  Chris is a 2021 graduate of Kennesaw State University.

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This episode was created in partnership with the University of New Mexico School of Law’s Association of Public Interest Law (or APIL) and New Mexico’s very own Equal Access to Justice. APIL provides funding and education related to public interest law to UNM’s law students. And EAJ supports some of the most important public interest organizations in the state, including New Mexico Legal Aid, the New Mexico Center on Law and Poverty, and DNA People’s Legal Services. 

Importantly for this episode, APIL and EAJ have teamed up to provide scholarships for students to undertake important public interest work during the summers while they’re in law school. Alicia was one of last year’s recipients of an APIL Fellowship funded by EAJ. During her fellowship, Alicia worked at the Southwest Women’s Law Center, an organization the provides free legal services to Native women experiencing domestic violence and/or intimate partner violence. 

Alicia was also recently selected to be part of the Community Governance Attorney Program, which was established by the New Mexico legislature in 2019 to provide legal services for land grant, acequia, and colonias communities. She will serve these communities while working at New Mexico Legal Aid following graduation. 

If you would like to donate or get involved with EAJ, please do so here. EAJ is working to unlock a $15,000 matching challenge, so please make your donations by March 31!

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Yvette Diaz is an attorney at Freese & Goss, PLLC in Dallas, Texas, where she focused her practice on personal injury and mass tort law. As a plaintiff’s attorney, Yvette represents individuals injured in car accidents, 18-wheeler collisions, motorcycle collisions, pedestrian collisions, slip and falls, general negligence, work injuries, and dog bite cases. Yvette is a trial attorney. She tries cases in both state and federal courts and has secured significant verdicts for injured plaintiffs against some of the largest corporations. Yvette has been named a National Trial Lawyers Top 40 under 40 Civil Plaintiff Trial Lawyer and a Super Lawyers Texas Rising Star. 

Yvette is a graduate of the University of Texas at Austin and Northwestern Pritzker School of Law.

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Episode #74 compiles the "success" responses from the following wonderful Season 3 Guests:

• E34: David Lat, Lawyer Turned Writer and Commentator on the Legal Profession
• E35: Abimbola Oladokun, Lead Counsel, General Litigation at Meta
• E36: Nathan Brenner, Attorney, Mergers IV at the Federal Trade Commission
• E37: Wookie Kim, Legal Director at the ACLU of Hawaii 
• E38: Sharonmoyee Goswami, Partner at Cravath
• E39: Mark Feldman, Senior Litigation Attorney at the National Immigrant Justice Center
• E40: Jonah Perlin, Georgetown Law Professor and How I Lawyer Podcast Host
• E41: Noah Nix, 3L at UGA Law and a Legal Intern at the Office of the Federal Public Defender
• E42: Jeena Cho, Mindfulness Consultant and Coach and Co-author of The Anxious Lawyer
• E44: Rachel Easter, Senior Counsel at National Women’s Law Center
• E45: Adria Kimbrough, Laura Rose & AJ Bellido de Luna, Mock Trial Coaches from the Class Action Podcast

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Jeremy Wilson is VP of Legal at Fabletics and TechStyleOS in Los Angeles, California, where he has worked for over three years. Jeremy began his legal career at Vedder Price in Chicago doing mergers and acquisitions work before moving to Winston & Strawn LLP, where he was an associate in the Venture Capital and Private Equity group. 

He then moved in-house and became the Director of Legal at JLL, a professional services firm specializing in real estate, services and investment management. A move to California took him to Activision Blizzard where he was a corporate and securities senior attorney for almost two years before he joined Fabletics in his current role. 

Jeremy is a graduate of Stanford University as well as the Northwestern University Pritzker School of Law and the Northwestern University Kellogg School of Management.

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Stacy Rummel Bratcher is the Chief Legal Officer at Cottage Health in California, where she has worked for over four years. Prior to joining Cottage Health, Stacy held many in-house roles during her nearly fifteen years at the University of Southern California. Stacy started her legal career at Hooper, Lundy & Bookman, PC (in Los Angeles), the nation's largest healthcare firm. 

Stacy hosts The Legal Department Podcast, a show aimed at in-house practitioners, where they can get real world advice from leading legal executives, executive coaches, and other thought leaders on how to grow their careers and deliver more value to their clients. Give it a listen! 

Stacy is a graduate of Truman State University and the Saint Louis University School of Law. 

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