Behind every confident lawyer is someone who helped them find their footing. In the latest episode of Real Cases, we explore the mentorships—with deans, with professors, and with working attorneys—that help Stetson students navigate law school and launch meaningful careers.

Professors Catherine Cameron and Assistant Deans Catherine B. Martin, Latoya Edwards, and Steve A. Maxwell join us to discuss what mentoring looks like at every stage of law school, from your transition into 1L year through bar prep and career planning. The conversation highlights Stetson's unique Inns program, our support for first-generation and non-traditional students, and how early guidance helps students gain real-world perspective before entering the profession.

Criminal law sits at the crossroads of fairness, accountability, and reform. From questions of who gets prosecuted to how victims are heard, Stetson Law pushes students to see beyond the verdict and into the systems that shape it.

In this episode of Real Cases, we sit down with Professors of Law Susan D. Rozelle, Roberta Flowers, and Judith A. M. Scully, along with the Gary R. Trombley Family White-Collar Crime Research Professor of Law Ellen S. Podgor, to discuss the new Criminal Law Concentration at Stetson. We explore what draws students to prosecutorial work versus defense work, the moral and procedural complexities of plea bargaining, and the role of criminal lawyers in addressing corruption, white-collar crime, and social justice reform.

On this episode of Real Cases, we discuss the business law concentration and Stetson's three-year dual JD/MBA degree with Professor of Law Theresa Radwan, Associate Professor of Law William Bunting, and Gage Bonjorn, a third-year law student.

Along the way we find out how bankruptcy law can merge the roles of a transactional lawyer and a litigator, why it's helpful when lawyers and business executives speak the same language, and why a surprising number of law school grads have a side hustle managing investment properties.

In the second episode of this two-parter, we sit down with Dean Anne Mullins; inaugural faculty bencher, Professor Kristen Adams; and one of the Inns program's first student readers, Mariana Monforte, a 3L who graduated from Stetson Law this spring. We discuss how law students go from private citizens to public advocates, the importance of developing a cross-generational professional network, and why Dean Mullins calls the Inns program "Hogwarts for law students'!

Your first few weeks of law school can feel like moving to another country where everyone speaks a slightly different language—and you need to be fluent by midterms. Perhaps that's why Stetson looked to a venerable institution from the UK's legal system to help 1Ls connect with each other, their professors, and the profession: English Inns of Court.

In this first episode of a two-parter, we sit down with Stetson Law Professor Timothy Kaye, one of the program's inaugural "benchers"—i.e. faculty mentors—to discuss how Stetson's Inns program got its start, the system's British origins, and how the program cultivates a more thoughtful and immersive approach to the study and practice of law.

Athletes and celebrities may be the ones in the spotlight, but behind every sponsorship deal, headline-making trade, or backstage battle over royalties, there's a lawyer making it all happen.

On this episode of Real Cases, we sit down with three Stetson Law alums: music industry attorney and Founding Partner of Keller, Turner, Andrews, & Ghanem, Jason L. Turner; Senior Director and Associate Council for the Charlotte Hornets, Cymoril White; and Vice President of Basketball Strategy for the Utah Jazz, Steven Schwartz. We discuss the ins and outs of copyright termination, new legal questions around data gathering through wearable technology, and the multitude of unusual avenues through which people enter the profession.

They say you should treat law school like a full-time job. But what does that really mean in practice, and how do you get the most out of your first year?

In this episode, we sit down with Assistant Professor Erin Okuno, who both teaches at Stetson Law and graduated from the school in 2013, and John Stafford, who's now a second-year student at Stetson. We discuss the most common challenges students face in their first year at law school, ways the environment for new grads has changed in the last decade, and how Stetson's uniquely collaborative environment sets students up for success.

What's the difference between "waiving" and "modifying," and how does that affect whether the President of the United States can forgive student loan debt?

In this episode, we sit down with Stetson Law Professor Mark Bauer to discuss Biden v. Nebraska, the Supreme Court case that struck down the Biden administration's partial student loan forgiveness efforts. On the way we consider the major questions doctrine, the vagaries of standing, and how sometimes―just sometimes―your work in antitrust law gets made into a Hollywood movie.

What do Babe Ruth, Ruth Bader Ginsberg, and a cat named Porkchop all have in common? They've all been distinguished guests on Stetson Law's storied hundred-year-old campus.

In this episode we sit down with Brooke M. Smith, a Circulation Librarian and Archivist, and Reference Librarian Sally Ginsberg Waters to discuss the history of that campus, dating back to its original construction as the Hotel Rolyat, an attraction for celebrities during the Roaring Twenties.

More and more job applications are processed by machine learning before a real person ever reads them. But can these algorithms exhibit prejudice? And, if so, what would it mean to adopt algorithmic affirmative action?

In this episode, we sit down with Stetson Professor Jason Bent to discuss the changing landscape of employment and employment discrimination law in the twenty-first century. We discuss the impact of AI, growing concerns about data privacy in employment contexts, and the role new Supreme Court decisions have played in the interpretation of Title VII.