TrustCast Show

What happens when a self-described introvert who went to law school to become a sports agent, spent years doing deportation defense and family law at a large firm that grew too fast, walks away mid-career with two partners and a grand total of one paralegal to see if they can do it better?

In this episode of the Trustcast Show, Zane Myers speaks with Tim Sutton, co-founding partner of Win Roche Sutton in Maryland, about going from 30 clients to over 150 in under a year, why starting your own firm forces an introvert to become a networker whether they want to or not, and what it means to work backwards from the objective instead of getting buried in the emotion of a case. Tim explains why 99% of family law cases are really about control and money rather than the children, what makes appellate work feel like a box puzzle versus the open puzzle of a trial, and why he once deliberately set up an appeal he knew he was going to lose in order to come back later with an ineffective assistance of counsel argument that actually worked.

They also discuss the difference between watching Paul Clement argue and watching Elizabeth Prelogar argue before the Supreme Court on cases she was losing, why immigration law is almost impossible to practice when the administrative rules change with every administration, how he used clips from My Cousin Vinny and To Kill a Mockingbird to teach younger attorneys courtroom technique, and his personal mission to visit every presidential gravesite and every major league baseball stadium in America — with Camden Yards already locked in as the answer to the stadium question.

Tim Sutton is a co-founding partner of Win Roche Sutton in Maryland, admitted to practice before the U.S. Supreme Court and the Fourth Circuit.

Connect with Tim Sutton:

winrochesutton.com

Maryland

Chapters

00:00 Introduction to Tim Sutton

00:32 Visiting presidential gravesites — starting with John and John Quincy Adams by accident in Quincy

01:40 Growing up in Baltimore in the 80s when the Colts left and baseball was all there was

02:17 Leaving a large firm mid-career — when stable is not actually stable

03:54 How COVID shaped the team that eventually became Win Roche Sutton

04:34 What each partner brings — appellate, civil, family law, criminal, and business

06:04 How they keep overhead low with one paralegal and virtual everything else

08:16 Going to law school to become a sports agent and discovering he had the wrong temperament

09:43 Starting with the objective and working backwards to the strategy

11:05 Why family law is really about control and money rather than the children

13:18 The hardest part of family law — getting attached and watching clients ignore your advice

14:23 Representing immigrants facing deportation and the asylum win he's proudest of

15:20 Why immigration law became almost impossible between administrations

16:47 What makes appellate work different from a trial — the closed box versus the open box

18:25 How an appeal can turn on whether an issue was preserved — and what to do when it wasn't

20:11 Setting up an appeal to lose on purpose in order to come back with ineffective assistance

20:57 Being barred before the U.S. Supreme Court and the attorney gallery fast pass

22:00 What surprised him watching arguments in person — Paul Clement, Elizabeth Prelogar, and the justices' personalities

24:29 Rapid fire — 38 states, Wilson in the National Cathedral, Camden Yards, and My Cousin Vinny

26:17 Using My Cousin Vinny and To Kill a Mockingbird to teach younger attorneys

27:37 How the firm's diverse perspectives change outcomes for clients

30:00 Suing the governor on behalf of Her Resiliency Center for cutting funding to human trafficking victims

30:56 How to find Win Roche Sutton

#TimSutton #WinRocheSutton #MarylandLawyer #FamilyLaw #AppellateLaw #TrustcastShow #LitigationStrategy #SupremeCourtBar #ImmigrationLaw #SmallFirmLaw

What happens when a physician who survived machine gun fire at age eight in Aleppo, developed thyroid disease from Chernobyl fallout at fourteen, pioneered ketamine treatment and emergency telepsychiatry before most doctors had heard of either, and then watched the federal government indict him on four counts of health care fraud facing forty years in prison — only to have a jury deliberate for two hours and come back not guilty on every single charge?

In this episode of the Trustcast Show, Zane Myers speaks with Dr. Mohamed Ali Rafai, psychiatrist, researcher, and author of the number one Amazon bestseller Doctor Not Guilty, about what it felt like to visit Otisville Federal Prison three weeks before his trial just to make peace with where he thought he might be going, why the government targeted him as an outlier for doing telepsychiatry between 2006 and 2020 when no one else was doing it, and what the prosecution got fundamentally wrong about how psychiatry actually works. He explains how he helped establish the first emergency telepsychiatry program in the United States in 2006 connecting three emergency rooms with $5 million in equipment that a CEO was brave enough to fund, why that same infrastructure became a model for tele-ICU during COVID, and what the jury understood that the government never did — that psychiatry is talking to people, not just writing prescriptions.

They also discuss the ketamine clinical trials he ran at NIH before esketamine became a nasal spray approved for depression, the first published report linking hepatitis C to psychiatric illness, what psychosomatic medicine actually is, the SHIELD organization he founded to help other doctors facing prosecution, and why his wife's best piece of advice — never talk to the police — may have saved his life.

Dr. Mohamed Ali Rafai is a board-certified physician in internal medicine, psychiatry, addiction medicine, and psychosomatic medicine. He is the founder of Blue Mountain Psychiatry, the creator of SHIELD, and the author of Doctor Not Guilty.

Connect with Dr. Rafai:

doctornotguilty.com

alirafai.com

shield.expert

Book: Doctor Not Guilty on Amazon and Barnes & Noble

Chapters

00:00 Introduction to Dr. Mohamed Ali Rafai

00:41 Doctor Not Guilty hits number one on Amazon in mental health and health law

01:25 Watching soldiers open fire on a school bus in Aleppo at age eight

02:09 Developing thyroid disease from Chernobyl fallout and the endocrinologist who helped write the Nuclear Test Ban Treaty

04:18 Coming to Memphis, researching at the University of Tennessee, and choosing psychiatry over a PhD

05:32 Board certified in four specialties — including psychosomatic medicine explained

06:42 The brain-body connection and why mental health manifests as physical illness

06:49 NIH ketamine clinical trials — what they saw and what it became

08:37 How ketamine became Spravato, now approved for depression and suicidal ideation

09:01 Publishing the first report linking hepatitis C to psychiatric illness

09:53 Building Blue Mountain Psychiatry and establishing the first ketamine and deep TMS programs in Pennsylvania

10:58 Founding the first emergency telepsychiatry program in the United States in 2006

12:14 How that same infrastructure became the model for tele-ICU during COVID

14:11 The federal indictment — four charges, forty years, and why he was targeted as an outlier

15:34 The government's version versus the reality of how telepsychiatry actually works

19:57 The nursing home patient with suicidal thoughts — what the prosecution argued and why the jury rejected it

20:54 Visiting Otisville Federal Prison three weeks before trial to make peace with the outcome

21:00 The verdict — two hours of deliberation, not guilty on all counts

23:06 Rapid fire — Arabic dreams, grape leaves, TMS over ketamine, and never talk to the police

24:32 Why the best advice his wife ever gave him saved his case

26:32 SHIELD — helping physicians facing federal investigation before the train reaches station C

28:03 The OBGYN case where the government construed legitimate procedures as rape

28:10 What needs to change in how the federal government investigates physicians

29:20 Fighting to expunge an arrest record despite a not guilty verdict

30:14 Where to find the book, Blue Mountain Psychiatry, and SHIELD

#MohamedAliRafai #DoctorNotGuilty #Telepsychiatry #HealthcareFraud #NotGuilty #Ketamine #TMS #TrustcastShow #PhysicianRights #SHIELD

What happens when a man who grew up in a broken home, bounced between parents through a decade-long custody battle, fell into substance abuse in his teens, hit rock bottom, came to faith, earned dual clinical licenses, and spent years running behavioral health programs across Kentucky finally realizes that the executives he's now coaching are suffering from the exact same thing he was — just dressed up in a corner office and a bank account that looks like success?

In this episode of the Trustcast Show, Zane Myers speaks with David Kingsbury, CEO of Kinged LLC, about what he calls the empty success cycle, why 95% of everything anyone does is subconscious and why that's the actual problem, and how the system he built called Accelerated Neuroconversion works by changing the entire neural target — not just one pathway — so that the behavior people want to change actually changes and stays changed. David explains the difference between burnout from overwork and burnout from identity misalignment, why the brain doesn't care if you're happy and only cares if you survive, and what cognitive dissonance actually looks like inside a high-performing executive who has everything on paper and can't figure out why none of it feels like enough.

They also discuss how a medical director with excellent clinical outcomes but unusually high staff turnover transformed her team's culture just by changing her own emotional frequency, why the first six to eight years of childhood create subconscious programs that run on autopilot for the rest of your life, what the three pillars of the Abundance Approach are and why wholeness has to come before impact, and why the hardest thing about what he built is also the thing that makes it work — it's not a tactic, it's an identity upgrade.

David Kingsbury is the CEO of Kinged LLC and creator of the Abundance Approach, a program designed to help high-performing executives break the empty success cycle through identity-level change.

Connect with David Kingsbury:

Kinged LLC

LinkedIn: David Kingsbury

Chapters

00:00 Introduction to David Kingsbury

00:41 Running statewide clinical operations, winning awards, and hitting a wall

01:01 Growing up in a broken home, a decade-long custody battle, and falling into substance abuse

04:29 The empty success cycle — why chasing the next mountain never brings fulfillment

06:37 How having been through addiction changes how you treat clients versus just learning from textbooks

07:48 What executives are actually addicted to and why it looks more noble but isn't

09:06 The signs that someone is stuck in the empty success cycle

11:03 Why external strategies never fix internal problems

11:42 The medical director case — excellent outcomes, terrible turnover, and what changed

13:16 The clinical and neurological foundations behind Accelerated Neuroconversion

14:58 The reticular activating system — why your brain filters for what you're already looking for

16:01 How neural automation works and why we're mostly on autopilot

18:00 Theta brainwaves, childhood programming, and why 95% of behavior is subconscious

19:00 Repetition as a way to bypass subconscious programming

20:04 The McDonald's example — why you can't change one pathway when six others are fighting against it

21:02 The Abundance Approach — wholeness, fitness, and impact

22:01 Burnout from a CEO perspective — the empty cup that nobody else can see

25:02 Cognitive dissonance in high performers and the two ways the brain resolves it

28:13 What if the very thing that makes someone successful is also what makes them miserable

29:01 Why burnout is usually identity misalignment, not overwork

31:03 The Abundance Approach and why founders can scale to seven figures without becoming more miserable

33:39 Why this is almost impossible to market — and why it works anyway

37:48 The three pillars explained — wholeness, fitness, and impact in full

39:33 How to know if you need identity-level performance training versus better tactics

40:54 How to reach David Kingsbury

#DavidKingsbury #KingedLLC #AcceleratedNeuroconversion #AbundanceApproach #EmptySuccessCycle #ExecutiveCoaching #TrustcastShow #IdentityChange #BurnoutRecovery #HighPerformerMindset

What happens when a former investment banker who restructured airlines after 9/11, flipped multimillion-dollar houses before 2008, and modeled in Milan between law school and his bar exam finally finds himself desperate at 48 with two kids and a house full of frozen equity — and ends up building the largest plaintiff-side sexual harassment and discrimination firm in New York?

In this episode of the Trustcast Show, Zane Myers speaks with William Phillips, founder of Phillips & Associates, about what the 80% of people who never report harassment don't know about their options, why HR is not on your side and never was, and how a federal complaint drafted before a single call to the company changes everything about what happens next. Bill explains what actually drives a case from $100,000 to $3 million, why NDAs do not prevent employees from talking to a lawyer about discrimination, and why he tells every single client the same thing on day one — go get another job, we'll handle this.

They also discuss the consensual relationship that ended and became a retaliation case worth a significant settlement, why a bad performance review before the termination doesn't end a harassment claim, how he built a database of 8,000 clients to value cases like no other employment lawyer in the country, and the nonprofit harassmenthelp.org and National Plaintiff's Summit he founded to share what the other 80% don't know they're missing.

William Phillips is the founder of Phillips & Associates, a sexual harassment and employment discrimination firm with offices in New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Florida, and Georgia. He has recovered over $300 million for employees who were harassed, discriminated against, and retaliated against.

Connect with William Phillips:

Phillips & Associates

harassmenthelp.org

New York / Miami

Chapters

00:00 Introduction to William Phillips

00:45 What to say to the person sitting in their car in the parking lot after it happened

01:31 The biggest misnomer — calling a lawyer doesn't mean filing a lawsuit

02:54 Why making a complaint the wrong way makes everything worse

03:32 HR is not on your side — and what to do instead

04:26 Why the harasser almost never gets sent home when HR investigates

06:37 From investment banking and mergers and acquisitions to modeling in Milan to employment law

07:44 How restructuring airlines after 9/11 taught him to negotiate everything

09:59 Real estate boom and collapse — how he ended up starting over again at 48

11:50 Working for free for a year and a half to learn discrimination law from scratch

13:29 Opening Phillips & Associates with a phone and building it like a business not a law firm

15:14 Why lawyers fail at business and why thinking like a CEO protects clients

17:05 How having $1 million invested in client cases changes the dynamic

19:08 The single most important thing to do before saying anything to HR

19:39 What evidence you actually need — and how to document things in real time

20:36 How to know if what's happening is illegal or just a terrible boss

21:39 Is the fear of being blacklisted realistic and how does the firm address it

23:26 The performance improvement plan that appears right after a complaint

24:37 NDAs and severance agreements — do they prevent you from talking to a lawyer

25:30 What drives a case from $100,000 to $3 million

27:41 From first call to resolution — the Cliff's Notes version of how a case moves

30:14 Why a team model of lead attorney, associate, and paralegal matters

31:03 How the firm evaluates whether a case is worth taking

32:42 What the defense does first and how Phillips counters it

35:10 What if the employee wasn't ideal — but it's because they were being harassed

36:23 Holiday parties, conferences, and the go along come along dynamic

37:13 The consensual relationship that ended and became a retaliation case

40:16 What the $3 to $5 million cases look like

42:27 Miami or New York — where he does his best thinking

43:07 harassmenthelp.org, the podcast, the National Plaintiff's Summit, and the books

46:33 Where Phillips & Associates can help and how to reach them

#WilliamPhillips #PhillipsAndAssociates #SexualHarassmentLaw #EmploymentDiscrimination #MeToo #HarassmentHelp #TrustcastShow #WorkplaceHarassment #EmploymentLawyer #Retaliation

What happens when a paralegal who spent 13 years inside personal injury law firms watching critical crash evidence disappear before cases ever reached litigation decides to stop waiting for someone else to fix it — and builds a crash reconstruction firm with her detective husband, a former NHTSA engineer, and ACTAR-certified reconstructionists who can read a car's black box like a flight recorder?

In this episode of the Trustcast Show, Zane Myers speaks with Marya Ryan, co-founder of Bolo Consulting, about the event data recorder that has been mandatory in every vehicle since 2014 and records the four seconds before every crash — speed, braking, swerving, everything — and why that data disappears the moment a tow yard releases a vehicle. Marya explains how the defense has been using this technology more aggressively than plaintiffs for years, why she built a flat-fee model at $600 to make it affordable enough that attorneys don't have to gamble, and how delta V data from a crash can prove that a client's herniation was physically possible even when the defense says the impact wasn't severe enough.

They also discuss how she once tracked down a black box that had already been sold to Mexico and had it shipped back, why a Tesla is actually easier to extract data from than most vehicles, how 3D laser scanning and drone photography create trial-ready animations that look like movies, and why the most common mistake attorneys make is simply not sending the preservation letter fast enough.

Marya Ryan is the co-founder of Bolo Consulting in South Florida, a crash reconstruction and evidence preservation firm serving personal injury attorneys in Florida, Texas, and the DC/Maryland/Virginia area.

Connect with Marya Ryan:

bololegal.com

Phone: 561-901-9968

South Florida, Florida

Chapters

00:00 Introduction to Marya Ryan

01:12 Thirteen years watching evidence disappear — and why she and her detective husband opened Bolo

02:07 What a paralegal sees day to day that trained her to spot the gap

02:34 The event data recorder — mandated since 2014 and recording four seconds before every crash

04:19 How EDR data increases claim value even when liability is already clear

04:50 Why the defense uses black boxes more than plaintiffs do

05:30 The $600 flat fee model and why it changes what attorneys will actually do

06:22 Sixty percent EDR preservation, forty percent full reconstruction — the business breakdown

07:39 Fifteen to twenty attorneys who call on every single case with good policy and damages

08:25 Delta V data and proving injury causation when the defense says it wasn't a bad crash

09:01 Walking attorneys through the findings — included in the flat fee

10:27 3D laser scanning, drone photography, and trial-ready animation that looks like a movie

11:17 The most common mistake attorneys make — not sending the preservation letter fast enough

12:31 Can insurance companies be actively moving vehicles out of reach

13:27 How Teslas work — easier than most vehicles, except the Cybertruck

14:57 The first 24 hours after an attorney calls Bolo

17:42 What most attorneys don't know about what EDR data can actually do

18:45 How Bolo educates attorneys at first contact and in lunch-and-learns

20:09 How the firm grows — almost entirely by referral

21:51 The competition and why price point and speed are the main advantages

22:52 Expanding to Texas and DC-Maryland-Virginia

24:37 Addressing the skeptic — how can you be that affordable and still comprehensive

28:18 What makes a crash reconstruction report hold up under cross-examination

28:51 How often experts actually appear in court

29:41 Working for both plaintiffs and defendants — why the data is the same either way

30:35 How to contact Bolo and get a free consultation on any police report

Hashtags

#MaryaRyan #BoloConsulting #CrashReconstruction #EventDataRecorder #BlackBox #PersonalInjuryLaw #TrustcastShow #EDREvidence #AccidentReconstruction #SouthFloridaLaw

What happens when a Harvard-trained lawyer who topped the Texas bar exam and clerked for the Fifth Circuit works all night on a Holocaust victims' banking case, gets a sign from God that he's on the wrong side, and ends up spending the next 25 years representing the people who get destroyed by 80,000-pound trucks?

In this episode of the Trustcast Show, Zane Myers speaks with Michael Cowen, founder of Cowen Rodriguez Peacock and host of Trial Lawyer Nation, about why the minimum insurance for a truck carrying 80,000 pounds hasn't changed since 1980, how a personal injury lawyer forced a national tire recall by petitioning NHTSA after discovering a defective Chinese-made tire was still on the market under a different brand name, and why he is publicly committed to paying out $100 million in referral fees over the next five years. Michael explains what he means by casting your villain, why identical trucking crash cases can settle for hundreds of thousands or millions depending on how the lawyer handles them, and why he no longer feels nervous at trial because he realized the case was never about him.

They also discuss why truck drivers are often treated inhumanely by the industry that depends on them, the story of the forklift trial where the defense had won 23 straight cases and he found a way to break a 20-year losing streak for plaintiffs, what it actually means to go to a client's house and why that's where cases are really won, and why knowing who to call when a case isn't right for you is just as important as knowing how to win when it is.

Michael Cowen is the founder of Cowen Rodriguez Peacock in San Antonio, Texas, one of the top trucking injury firms in the country, and host of the Trial Lawyer Nation podcast.

Connect with Michael Cowen:

Trial Lawyer Nation

Cowen Rodriguez Peacock

San Antonio, Texas

Chapters

00:00 Introduction to Michael Cowen

00:32 Why a Holocaust banking case at Big Law convinced him he was on the wrong side

02:48 How a girl from Brownsville and a plaintiffs lawyer's phone call changed everything

04:11 Why he specializes in trucking instead of general PI — and why timing matters

06:14 Ninety-nine percent attorney referral — how he built that over a career

09:00 What referral partners actually complain about and how to fix it

11:31 Two identical trucking crashes — why the verdict is in how the lawyer handles it

13:23 How he pushed NHTSA to force a national Hercules tire recall

15:48 Casting your villain — the story structure that works in every case

18:54 What it means that every case is a story and what happens if you don't have one

19:52 The $17.5 million forklift verdict — breaking a 20-year losing streak for plaintiffs

24:04 The $8.5 million verdict where the jury came back before he got home

25:11 During closing, can you ever feel like you have it — and what happens in that room

28:08 What Jerry Spence's Trial Lawyers College taught him about connecting with a jury

29:13 After more than 100 trials, do you still get nervous

30:39 How 300,000 truck drivers on the road today would fail a hair follicle test

32:16 Why the urine drug test is essentially a broken system

33:16 How the trucking industry treats its drivers and why that shapes the story

35:11 Going to a client's house and what you actually find there

37:14 Minimum insurance hasn't changed since 1980 — what that means for families

38:45 One thing you should know about trucks that would change how you drive tomorrow

39:29 Building a culture where settlements the size of Texas is not just a tagline

#MichaelCowen #TrialLawyerNation #TruckingLawyer #PersonalInjury #TruckAccident #TrialLawyer #TrustcastShow #CastingYourVillain #TireRecall #SanAntonioLawyer

What happens when a woman who styled yarn for West Point Pepperell, ran a high-end kitchen and bath renovation showroom, and earned a certification in aging in place design watches her mother's dementia accelerate and her father's health decline at the same time — and realizes that being the professional doesn't protect you from being the family member who needs help?

In this episode of the Trustcast Show, Zane Myers speaks with Jill Poser, founder of Life Care Concierge of South Florida, about what aging life care management actually is, why families never call until they're seven minutes from a crisis, and why having a nurse at the center of an aging parent's care changes everything a home care agency simply cannot. Jill explains the concept of filial maturity — the healthy mindset where adult children support their parents without becoming their parents — and what it felt like to hire her own care manager so she could go back to being her parents' daughter instead of their caregiver.

They also discuss why people with dementia are still adults who deserve to be treated as such, what executive function means and why losing it is often invisible to the person losing it, how therapeutic recreation and ethical wills fit into a truly patient-centered care model, and why so many families in South Florida move into 55-plus communities without ever thinking about what happens when things change.

Jill Poser is the founder and leader of Life Care Concierge of South Florida, a nurse-led aging life care management practice serving high-net-worth families in the South Florida area. She is certified three times in care management and co-founded a charity GALA for the Alzheimer's Association.

Connect with Jill Poser:

lifecareconcierge-sfl.com

South Florida

Chapters

00:00 Introduction to Jill Poser

00:17 From yarn styling to kitchen renovation to aging life care management

01:30 The sensitivity training that changed everything — experiencing what it means to be old

02:48 What aging life care management actually is and why families call in a panic

04:00 The comprehensive assessment — medical history, cognitive screen, and psychosocial background

05:07 What executive function means and why it matters when it starts to slip

07:50 Why a nurse-led practice is different from a home care agency

10:55 How the nurse care manager and home caregiver work together — not siloed

13:10 The patient-centered, team-based approach explained

15:46 When Jill's father's health declined and her mother's dementia accelerated — being the family member who needs help

17:20 Hiring her own care manager so she could go back to being their daughter

19:38 Filial maturity explained — supporting your parent without becoming their parent

21:22 The one thing no certification ever teaches — loving without expectation

22:08 How her own caregiving experience changed how her team shows up for families

24:12 Rapid fire questions

27:31 The most common mistake families make after a dementia diagnosis

28:26 What she wishes more people understood about dementia care

29:14 How she finds and keeps people who can handle the emotional weight of this work

30:36 What it takes to make clients truly feel seen and heard

31:25 The future of aging in place over the next 10 years

33:37 How the practice grows — referrals, concierge doctors, and education

36:22 Ethical wills and why they matter — leaving a legacy beyond documents

37:00 How to reach Life Care Concierge of South Florida

#JillPoser #LifeCareConcierge #AgingLifeCareManagement #DementiaCare #NurseLedCare #AgingInPlace #TrustcastShow #FilialMaturity #SouthFloridaEldercate #CareManagement

What happens when a woman who captained two national mock trial teams at the Marine Corps of Law School walks straight into bet-the-company trials most lawyers don't see for a decade — and then becomes a partner at one of Dallas's most elite boutique trial firms in just a few years?

In this episode of the Trustcast Show, Zane Myers speaks with Mollie Mallory, partner at Tillotson Johnson & Patton, about what it actually means to prepare every case for trial rather than settlement, how her firm got hired on a Tuesday, spent Wednesday night preparing, and walked into a temporary injunction mini-trial on Thursday for four people whose livelihoods were on the line — and won. Mollie explains why there's a meaningful difference between a litigator and a trial lawyer, why preparing every case as if it's going to a jury is actually what drives settlement, and how being underestimated as a young woman in a room full of older men is one of her biggest advantages.

They also discuss how Jeff Tillotson and John Patton taught her to turn the most complex commercial dispute into a story a jury can follow in minutes, how she spends 10 times more time prepping witnesses for cross-examination than direct, the non-compete case she turned around in 48 hours in Fort Worth, and how to look at the courthouse docket to find out which firms are actually trying cases versus just saying they do.

Mollie Mallory is a partner at Tillotson Johnson & Patton in Dallas, Texas, a boutique commercial trial firm. She handles both plaintiff and defense commercial litigation, medical malpractice, and catastrophic injury cases, including contingency and alternative fee arrangements.

Connect with Mollie Mallory:

tillotsonlaw.com

Dallas, Texas

Chapters

00:00 Introduction to Mollie Mallory

00:51 Baylor Law's practice court program — the moment she knew trial work was it

01:39 What leading national mock trial teams taught her that the classroom didn't

01:00 Why she left Cooper Scully's defense work to join TJP and take plaintiff cases too

01:40 Thinking inside the jury box — what makes TJP different from big firm litigation

02:52 Storytelling versus law — what commercial litigation really comes down to

04:05 Getting hired midstream — what the first 48 hours look like

05:43 Alternative fee arrangements — contingency, flat, hybrid — and why it matters

07:23 The promissory note trial that took the jury 12 minutes to decide

08:52 Going from associate to partner at an elite boutique in a few years

10:22 Prepping witnesses — 10 times more on cross than direct

11:44 Preparing every case as if you're going to trial and what that does to discovery

12:57 The hardest part of translating a complex commercial dispute for 12 jurors

14:00 Rapid fire — sailgating at Baylor, smoking a brisket, and painting a cowboy

16:28 Best advice Jeff Tillotson gave her just yesterday

17:30 How to convince a nervous client to go to trial instead of settling

18:56 Handling both plaintiff and defense work — does switching sides make you sharper

20:55 Walking into a courtroom as a young woman and being underestimated

22:34 What a typical week looks like at TJP when not in trial

23:22 The Tuesday hire, Wednesday prep, Thursday win — the recruiting non-compete case

25:31 What she'd tell a law student who keeps hearing nobody goes to trial anymore

27:13 The difference between a litigator and a trial lawyer and how to find the real ones

28:42 How to reach Mollie Mallory

#MollieMallory #TillotsonJohnsonPatton #TrialLawyer #CommercialLitigation #DallasTrialLawyer #TrustcastShow #BaylorLaw #JuryTrials #PlaintiffAndDefense #WomenInLitigation

What happens when a woman who grew up in a family of lawyers in Nigeria, graduated top of her class, moved to America at 20 for love, and found herself dropped in the middle of an ocean — no connections, no recognition of her law degree, three babies in diapers, and law school to do all over again — comes out the other side and becomes the fiercest advocate in the room?

In this episode of the Trustcast Show, Zane Myers speaks with Ogor Winnie Okoye, founder of Boss Legal Group in Massachusetts, about the miscarriage, the marriage in crisis, and the rock bottom that led to a transformation she now teaches in workshops every Saturday for free. Ogor explains the zone of the UISA — unbiased introspective self-analysis — and why she believes awakening the divinity within each person is not a one-time event but a daily practice that changes how you show up in every courtroom, every client meeting, and every relationship you have.

They also discuss crimmigration — the intersection of criminal defense and immigration law — how a 42-year-old man named Carlos was being deported to Guatemala despite having lived here since age 12 and meeting every legal requirement, the nurse who lied about a healthcare worker slapping an elderly patient and watched her story fall apart in 20 minutes on the stand, and why Ogor goes to jail so often that she recognizes just how many innocent people are sitting there waiting for someone to fight for them the way she will.

Ogor Winnie Okoye is the founder of Boss Legal Group in Lynn, Massachusetts, licensed in Massachusetts and New York. She practices criminal defense, immigration, crimmigration, estate planning, and family law. Her book is Awakening and Unleashing Your Victor. Her free Saturday life planning workshops are open to the public.

Connect with Ogor Winnie Okoye:

boslegals.com

Facebook and LinkedIn: Agor Winnie Okoye

Lynn, Massachusetts

Chapters

00:00 Introduction to Ogor Winnie Okoye

00:57 Coming to America at 20 for love and landing in the middle of an ocean

02:19 Her Nigerian law degree didn't transfer — and she had to go back to law school

03:34 Three babies in diapers in law school — and what her family calls her

05:37 Hitting rock bottom in her marriage and what changed

07:23 Winning the jurisprudence award at Suffolk while broken inside

08:23 What awakening actually looks like — the zone of the UISA

10:24 Doing the things that terrified her, starting with trial

11:23 How crimmigration — criminal defense meets immigration law — works

13:42 The 42-year-old man named Carlos who met every requirement and still got deported

15:05 What the 98% success rate reflects — and why the last year and a half has been devastating

17:27 Carlos's story continued — the heartbreak of that day

18:02 Last week's incredible win — the nurse who lied and crumbled on the stand

24:51 How Boss Legal Group works — from bar advocate to private practice

28:02 Free Saturday workshops on life planning and estate planning

32:45 Why a revocable living trust beats a will for most people

39:11 Rapid fire questions — Jollof rice, Celine Dion, and what boo boo calls her

44:09 How to reach Ogor Winnie Okoye

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What happens when a lawyer who opened his first office in a small Arkansas town with a bounced check and a toddler quacking down his hallway with door stops in his mouth grows his firm into the largest wage and hour practice in the country, co-founds a firm with a YouTuber who has 3.9 million subscribers, builds a legal referral software platform used by five of the ten largest plaintiff firms in the country, and then launches a class action firm that files one lawsuit per calendar day?

In this episode of the Trustcast Show, Zane Myers speaks with Josh Sanford, founder of Sanford Law Firm, co-founder of Eagle Team with Legal Eagle's Devin Stone, CEO of the legal referral software company Lexamica, and co-founder of EKSM — the class action firm that has now filed cases in 48 states against companies including NVIDIA, Meta, Snap, ByteDance, OpenAI, and Amazon over AI training data and copyright violations worth hundreds of billions in statutory damages. Josh explains how a conversation on a Monday about the Fair Labor Standards Act turned into a $5.5 million settlement by Thursday, why he shut the front door of his original firm in 2022, and what it actually takes to file a class action every single day.

They also discuss the Bart v. Anthropic settlement for $1.5 billion over AI training data, why data breaches keep happening and who should be calling a lawyer when that notification arrives in the mail, how he built a software company to manage referrals between plaintiff firms before anyone knew that needed to exist, and why change is a skill that lawyers who want more should get very good at practicing.

Josh Sanford is the founder of Sanford Law Firm, co-founder of Eagle Team and EKSM, and co-founder of Lexamica. He is based in Little Rock, Arkansas and practices in federal courts across the country.

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Chapters

00:00 Introduction to Josh Sanford

01:04 Opening a law firm months out of law school — a bounced check and a quacking toddler

03:12 Going door to door to businesses, joining Kiwanis, and getting the first clients

04:48 How a Monday phone call and a Thursday client led to a $5.5 million FLSA settlement

06:10 Growing into the largest wage and hour practice in federal court in the country

07:31 Meeting Devon Stone at a YouTube conference and co-founding Eagle Team

09:59 How Lexamica was born and why five of the ten largest plaintiff firms now use it

12:42 What launching Eagle Team taught him about systems that Sanford Law never did

14:55 Why he shut the front door of Sanford Law Firm in October 2022

16:47 Founding EKSM in August 2024 with Tommy Kirker and Jared Elzey

18:03 How you file one class action per calendar day — and where the cases come from

20:31 What happens when a data breach notification lands and the team mobilizes

22:04 What most people don't understand about that breach letter they throw in the trash

24:01 Rapid fire questions including golf, Legally Blonde, and the best advice he ignored

27:30 Running four firms at once — golf every morning and gym at lunch

29:06 Hiring for values not experience and building teams that don't need babysitting

31:25 Building with family and why you need smart family members if you're going to do it

32:16 If he could give 2001 Josh one piece of advice

32:48 Why data breaches keep increasing and who benefits

33:19 Cases against NVIDIA, Meta, Snap, ByteDance, OpenAI, and Amazon over AI training data

35:00 The Digital Millennium Copyright Act explained

37:07 The Bart v. Anthropic $1.5 billion settlement and the model for AI IP going forward

40:20 What he wants the firm to stand for when it's all said and done

41:32 What to do if you just got a data breach notification

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