The Legal Geeks

Join Jessica and Josh for a spooky look back at the 1980s classics Bettlejuice and The Monster Squad. Get ready for haunted houses, abandoned property, required disclosures, Peeping Toms, and Universal Monsters. Sorry in advance for the connectivity drops during the recording. 

This episode of The Legal Geeks is brought to you by the new book Unlocked Stories, where a mysterious phone is found and lost and found again—gravitating from person to person, tempting them, compelling them, and changing their lives forever. 

Josh Gilliland wrote the chapter entitled, “The Veil,” about an app that allows users to exchange text messages with the dead.  

Visit unlockedstories.com for more and follow us on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram at @graystarphone.  Unlocked Stories is available on Amazon Paperback, Kindle, and Apple iBooks. 

Send us Fan Mail

Support the show

No part of this recording should be considered legal advice.
Follow us on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, YouTube, and TikTok @TheLegalGeeks

Judge Stan Boone, Angela Storey, Stephen Tollafield, and Josh Gilliland conduct their legal review of what goes bump in the night. Recorded live at SVCC 2019, this panel discussed Frankenstein's Creature, lynch mobs, the Mummy, cruel and unusual punishment, endangered species with the Creature from the Black Lagoon, and peeping toms with the Wolfman. 

Send us Fan Mail

Support the show

No part of this recording should be considered legal advice.
Follow us on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, YouTube, and TikTok @TheLegalGeeks

Could Captain Phasma execute Commander Pyre & Tierny if they fail to find the Colossus? Is the Colossus now a common carrier like a cruise ship or is it like its own city-state? What are the employment issues with the Chelidae retreating into their shells out of fear and refusing to work?  Just how did Tam Ryvora join the First Order? Attorneys Joshua Gilliland, Thomas Harper, and Gabby Martin discuss all of these legal issues and more from Star Wars Resistance Into the Unknown. 

This episode of The Legal Geeks is brought to you by the new book Unlocked Stories, where a mysterious phone is found and lost and found again—gravitating from person to person, tempting them, compelling them, and changing their lives forever. 

Josh Gilliland wrote the chapter entitled, “The Veil,” about an app that allows users to exchange text messages with the dead.  

Visit unlockedstories.com for more and follow us on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram at @graystarphone.  Unlocked Stories is available on Amazon Paperback, Kindle, and Apple iBooks. 

Send us Fan Mail

Support the show

No part of this recording should be considered legal advice.
Follow us on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, YouTube, and TikTok @TheLegalGeeks

Would contributory negligence bar recovery from an accident caused by a super-hero? What's wrong with planting a microphone secretly in a building? Join Joshua Gilliland and Megan Hitchcock as they race through the legal issues from episode one of The Boys, The Name of the Game.

Send us Fan Mail

Support the show

No part of this recording should be considered legal advice.
Follow us on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, YouTube, and TikTok @TheLegalGeeks

Imperial Stormtroopers are tired of being beaten up with sticks by Ewoks. The Imperial Department of Military Research expressly warranted that all armors would protect Stormtroopers from projectile weapons. Legions of Stormtrooper associations have sued the manufacturer of body armor for defective design, breach of warranty, and fraud. Can Stormtroopers find justice or are they doomed to get the short end of the stick? Find out as attorneys Kathy Steinman, Doug Ridley, Christine Peek, and Jack Yang argue before U.S. Federal Magistrate Judge Mitch Dembin. Brought to you by The Legal Geeks.

Send us Fan Mail

Support the show

No part of this recording should be considered legal advice.
Follow us on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, YouTube, and TikTok @TheLegalGeeks

Lawyer Friends Jessica Mederson and Josh Gilliland swing into action as they take on the nefarious legal issues in Spider-Man Far From Home. Could Mysterio be sued for fraud? Did Nick Fury commit child endangerment by drafting Spider-Man into a legally undefined version of SHIELD? And just what kind of parental consent was given for high school students to be taken across Europe? Tune in as Jess and Josh explore these issues and more.  

This episode of The Legal Geeks is brought to you by the new self-pulblished book Unlocked Stories, where a mysterious phone is found and lost and found again—gravitating from person to person, tempting them, compelling them, and changing their lives forever. 

Josh Gilliland wrote the chapter entitled “The Veil,” about an app that allows users to exchange text messages with the dead. 

Visit unlockedstories.com for more and follow us on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram at @graystarphone.  Unlocked Stories is available on Amazon Paperback, Kindle, and Apple iBooks. 

Send us Fan Mail

Support the show

No part of this recording should be considered legal advice.
Follow us on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, YouTube, and TikTok @TheLegalGeeks

Godzilla has been a destructive force of legal liability since 1954. Who is financially responsible for Acts of Godzilla? Does the United States have a duty to defend Japan? And just who is the legal owner of Mothra’s egg? Join our panel of attorneys including US Magistrate Judge Stacie Beckerman, Monte Cooper (Grand Nephew of the creator of King Kong, Merian Cooper), Kathy Steinman (Deputy City Attorney for the City of San Diego), Bethany Bengfort (US Courts), and Joshua Gilliland (The Legal Geeks) as they wade into the depths of Godzilla's destructive legal issues over the last 65 years. Moderated by Matt Weinhold  (MonsterParty).

Check out "Unlocked," the new book with ten stories about one phone. Joshua Gilliland authored the chapter "The Veil."  

Send us Fan Mail

Support the show

No part of this recording should be considered legal advice.
Follow us on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, YouTube, and TikTok @TheLegalGeeks

The Clone Wars represents some of the best Star Wars stories ever told. Join our panel of judges and attorneys as they report for duty to determine the Duty to Follow Lawful Orders vs Unlawful Orders; Child Safety of Younglings; Secret Marriages; Clone Rights; and the Trial of Ashoka Tano. Panelists include Circuit Judge John B. Owens (9th Circuit Court of Appeals), Judge Carol Najera, Stephen Tollafield (Professor at Hastings School of Law), Bethany Bengfort (US Courts), Steve Chu (Assistant US Attorney), and moderated by Joshua Gilliland (The Legal Geeks).

Check out "Unlocked," the new book with ten stories about one phone. Joshua Gilliland authored the chapter "The Veil."  

Send us Fan Mail

Support the show

No part of this recording should be considered legal advice.
Follow us on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, YouTube, and TikTok @TheLegalGeeks

US Magistrate Judge Stacie Beckerman and Josh Gilliland discuss whether Titans are protected by the Endangered Species Act, if they are protected, under what circumstances could they be killed in self-defense, and whether using Titans as weapons would violated the Biological Weapons Anti-Terrorism Act of 1989.

If you are attending San Diego Comic Con, here is our panel schedule:

Law of the MC, July 18, at 100 pm
Judges on the Clone Wars, July 19, at 800 pm
Lawyers on the 65th Anniversary of Godzilla, July 20, at 730 pm 

Send us Fan Mail

Support the show

No part of this recording should be considered legal advice.
Follow us on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, YouTube, and TikTok @TheLegalGeeks

Lawyers Assemble to discuss the question, was Thor right to kill Thanos in "The Garden"? Joshua Gilliland, Thomas Harper, and Nari Ely, discuss the concepts of Just Wars and targeted killings, war crimes, extrajudicial murder, and whether the God of Thunder was justified to go for the head....

Send us Fan Mail

Support the show

No part of this recording should be considered legal advice.
Follow us on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, YouTube, and TikTok @TheLegalGeeks