Personal Jurisdiction

By Hallie Ritzu, Allison Freedman

When you look up “Personal Jurisdiction” in Black’s Law Dictionary, it directs you to the entry for “Jurisdiction.” We won’t do that to you. We’re here because there’s not enough good information avai... more

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November 04, 2025 Let's Get Personal with Clare Diegel, Director of the Professional Standards Division at the Hennepin County Attorney's Office
Clare Diegel is the Director of the Professional Standards Division at the Hennepin County Attorney’s Office in Minnesota. Prior to this role, Clare was a staff attorney at the ACLU of Minnesota, and a public defender in both Minnesota and Seattle. Clare also clerked at both the federal district and circuit court levels, first in the Central District of Illinois and later on the Ninth Circuit. Between her two clerkships, Clare worked at Kirkland & Ellis in Chicago.
Clare is a graduate of the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and the Northwestern University Pritzker School of Law, where she earned both her JD and an LLM in International Human Rights.
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We use Riverside.FM to record our episodes.
Our episodes are edited by Scott Donnell at Run and Drum Media https://www.runanddrummedia.com
Our new logo/branding was designed by Ellie Mejia, a graphic designer and illustrator located in Chicago, Illinois. Check out Ellie's work here.
Our previous logos were designed by Lizzie L. O'Connor.
Our Theme Song is Pleasant Porridge by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
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October 07, 2025 Let's Get Personal with Tamany Vinson Bentz, IP Attorney and Founder of California IP Law
Tamany Vinson Bentz is the founding partner of California IP Law, a boutique law firm in Manhattan Beach, California dedicated to helping small and growing businesses establish and protect their intellectual property. Tamany helps clients navigate the landscape of technology and media, focusing her efforts on intellectual property matters, including copyrights, patents, trade secrets, and trademarks, as well as false advertising issues.
Tamany also founded Pour Tous Skincare - a skincare line designed to be simple, inclusive, and effective - especially for teens and young adults navigating the ever-changing needs of their skin. Pour Tous Skincare was recently named one of the best gifts for teen girls by Forbes.
Before starting California IP Law, Tamany was an associate and partner at Venable and a partner at DLA Piper both in Los Angeles.
Tamany clerked for the Honorable Sue L. Robinson on the U.S. District Court for the District of Delaware. She is a graduate of Arizona State, the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, and the University of Pennsylvania School of Law.

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Listen to this episode for a special code to get the lowest price of the year on the February and July 2026 Themis Bar Review Course.
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We couldn't do this alone! So...
Personal Jurisdiction is powered and distributed with Simplecast.
We use Riverside.FM to record our episodes.
Our episodes are edited by Scott Donnell at Run and Drum Media https://www.runanddrummedia.com
Our new logo/branding was designed by Ellie Mejia, a graphic designer and illustrator located in Chicago, Illinois. Check out Ellie's work here.
Our previous logos were designed by Lizzie L. O'Connor.
Our Theme Song is Pleasant Porridge by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License
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September 02, 2025 Let's Get Personal with Eleventh Circuit Judge Kevin Newsom & Law Clerk Karissa Kang
The Honorable Kevin Newsom is a graduate of Samford University and Harvard Law School. After law school, he clerked for Judge O’Scannlain on the Ninth Circuit, and went on to clerk for United States Supreme Court Justice David Souter. Between and after his clerkships, Judge Newsom worked at Covington & Burling in Washington, D.C. In 2003, he was appointed the State of Alabama’s Solicitor General. And in 2007 he returned to private practice, this time in Birmingham Alabama, until 2017, when he was appointed to the Eleventh Circuit.
Among other things, Judge Newsom is known for his exceptional legal writing, concurring with his own opinions, and promoting a fun and welcoming yet rigorous chambers environment.
Karissa Kang is a 2024 Yale Law School graduate, and is now clerking for Judge Newsom on the Eleventh Circuit. During law school, Karissa was the Editor-In-Chief of the Yale Law & Policy Review. She also spent her summers working at Susman Godfrey in Houston, Texas; Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz in New York City; and the New York State Attorney General’s Office in their Antitrust Bureau.
Special shout out to John Kang, Karissa’s father, and Allison's colleague at the University of New Mexico School of Law, who is always a fantastic supporter of Personal Jurisdiction, and who connected us to Karissa and thereby Judge Newsom.
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Thank you to our sponsor, Themis Bar Review!
Listen to this episode for a special code to get the lowest price of the year on the February and July 2026 Themis Bar Review Course.
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We couldn't do this alone! So...
Personal Jurisdiction is powered and distributed with Simplecast.
We use Riverside.FM to record our episodes.
Our episodes are edited by Scott Donnell at Run and Drum Media https://www.runanddrummedia.com
Our new logo/branding was designed by Ellie Mejia, a graphic designer and illustrator located in Chicago, Illinois. Check out Ellie's work here.
Our previous logos were designed by Lizzie L. O'Connor.
Our Theme Song is Pleasant Porridge by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License
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1h 10min
August 05, 2025 Let's Get Personal with Tom Peabody, Assistant U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Illinois
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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Thank you to our sponsor, Themis Bar Review!
Listen to this episode for a special code to get the lowest price of the year on the February and July 2026 Themis Bar Review Course.
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We couldn't do this alone! So...
Personal Jurisdiction is powered and distributed with Simplecast.
We use Riverside.FM to record our episodes.
Our episodes are edited by Scott Donnell at Run and Drum Media https://www.runanddrummedia.com
Our new logo/branding was designed by Ellie Mejia, a graphic designer and illustrator located in Chicago, Illinois. Check out Ellie's work here.
Our previous logos were designed by Lizzie L. O'Connor.
Our Theme Song is Pleasant Porridge by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/
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July 01, 2025 Let's Get Personal with Christina Otero Geeza, Partner at Otero Geeza Law P.A.
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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Thank you to our sponsor, Themis Bar Review!
Listen to this episode for a special code to get the lowest price of the year on the February and July 2026 Themis Bar Review Course.
Find us online at https://www.personaljxpod.com
Find us on LinkedIn on our new page and subscribe to our LinkedIn newsletter
Find us on Twitter @PersonalJxPod
We couldn't do this alone! So...
Personal Jurisdiction is powered and distributed with Simplecast.
We use Riverside.FM to record our episodes.
Our episodes are edited by Scott Donnell at Run and Drum Media https://www.runanddrummedia.com
Our new logo/branding was designed by Ellie Mejia, a graphic designer and illustrator located in Chicago, Illinois. Check out Ellie's work here.
Our previous logos were designed by Lizzie L. O'Connor.
Our Theme Song is Pleasant Porridge by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/
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1h 5min
June 03, 2025 Let's Get Personal with Zac Byer, Director of Litigation and Intellectual Property at Activision Blizzard
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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Thank you to our sponsor, Themis Bar Review!
Listen to this episode for a special code to get the lowest price of the year on the February and July 2026 Themis Bar Review Course.
Find us online at https://www.personaljxpod.com
Find us on LinkedIn on our new page and subscribe to our LinkedIn newsletter
Find us on Twitter @PersonalJxPod
We couldn't do this alone! So...
Personal Jurisdiction is powered and distributed with Simplecast.
We use Riverside.FM to record our episodes.
Our episodes are edited by Scott Donnell at Run and Drum Media https://www.runanddrummedia.com
Our new logo/branding was designed by Ellie Mejia, a graphic designer and illustrator located in Chicago, Illinois. Check out Ellie's work here.
Our previous logos were designed by Lizzie L. O'Connor.
Our Theme Song is Pleasant Porridge by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/
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1h 2min
May 06, 2025 #78: Let's Get Personal about Preparing for the Bar Exam with Rebecca Petrilli from Themis Bar Review
Is the July 2025 bar exam already stressing you out? Are you thinking about adding another jurisdiction to your practice? If you're taking the bar exam, this episode is for you! We chat with Rebecca Petrilli, the bar exam expert from Themis Bar Review, about the top 5 tips for bar exam study, common roadblocks in studying, how to personalize your bar exam studying to work best for you, strategies for the final week before the exam, and exam day advice.
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Thank you to our sponsor, Themis Bar Review!
Listen to this episode for a special code to get the lowest price of the
year on the February and July 2026 Themis Bar Review Course.
Find us online at https://www.personaljxpod.com
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newsletter
Find us on Twitter @PersonalJxPod
We couldn't do this alone! So...
Personal Jurisdiction is powered and distributed with Simplecast.
We use Riverside.FM to record our episodes.
Our episodes are edited by Scott Donnell at Run and Drum Media
https://www.runanddrummedia.com
Our new logo/branding was designed by Ellie Mejia, a graphic designer
and illustrator located in Chicago, Illinois. Check out Ellie's work
here.
Our previous logos were designed by Lizzie L. O'Connor.
Our Theme Song is Pleasant Porridge by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/
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31min
April 01, 2025 #77: Let's Get Personal with Chris Louis-Jacques, Law Student at the University of Georgia School of Law
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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Thank you to our sponsor, Themis Bar Review!
Listen to this episode for a special code to get the lowest price of the year on the February and July 2026 Themis Bar Review Course.
Find us online at https://www.personaljxpod.com
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Find us on Twitter @PersonalJxPod
We couldn't do this alone! So...
Personal Jurisdiction is powered and distributed with Simplecast.
We use Riverside.FM to record our episodes.
Our episodes are edited by Scott Donnell at Run and Drum Media https://www.runanddrummedia.com
Our new logo/branding was designed by Ellie Mejia, a graphic designer and illustrator located in Chicago, Illinois. Check out Ellie's work here.
Our previous logos were designed by Lizzie L. O'Connor.
Our Theme Song is Pleasant Porridge by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/
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March 04, 2025 #76: Let's Get Personal with Alicia Ulibarrí, Law Student at the University of New Mexico School of Law and APIL/EAJ Fellow
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!
Thank you to our sponsor, Themis Bar Review!
Listen to this episode for a special code to get the lowest price of the year on the July 2025 Themis Bar Review Course (code valid through March 31, 2025).
Get new episodes by email by subscribing to our Substack!
Thank you to our sponsor, Themis Bar Review!
Listen to this episode for a special code to get the lowest price of the year on the February and July 2026 Themis Bar Review Course.
Find us online at https://www.personaljxpod.com
Find us on LinkedIn on our new page and subscribe to our LinkedIn newsletter
Find us on Twitter @PersonalJxPod
We couldn't do this alone! So...
Personal Jurisdiction is powered and distributed with Simplecast.
We use Riverside.FM to record our episodes.
Our episodes are edited by Scott Donnell at Run and Drum Media https://www.runanddrummedia.com
Our new logo/branding was designed by Ellie Mejia, a graphic designer and illustrator located in Chicago, Illinois. Check out Ellie's work here.
Our previous logos were designed by Lizzie L. O'Connor.
Our Theme Song is Pleasant Porridge by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/
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February 04, 2025 #75: Let's Get Personal with Yvette Diaz, Personal Injury Attorney at Freese & Goss, PLLC
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.
Connect with Yvette on LinkedIn.
Get new episodes by email by subscribing to our Substack!
Thank you to our sponsor, Themis Bar Review!
Listen to this episode for a special code to get the lowest price of the year on the February and July 2026 Themis Bar Review Course.
Find us online at https://www.personaljxpod.com
Find us on LinkedIn on our new page and subscribe to our LinkedIn newsletter
Find us on Twitter @PersonalJxPod
We couldn't do this alone! So...
Personal Jurisdiction is powered and distributed with Simplecast.
We use Riverside.FM to record our episodes.
Our episodes are edited by Scott Donnell at Run and Drum Media https://www.runanddrummedia.com
Our new logo/branding was designed by Ellie Mejia, a graphic designer and illustrator located in Chicago, Illinois. Check out Ellie's work here.
Our previous logos were designed by Lizzie L. O'Connor.
Our Theme Song is Pleasant Porridge by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/
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