Is That Even Legal?

Send us Fan Mail He was an intelligence officer in the U.S. Army Reserves.  He's a former prosecutor of the Maricopa County Attorney's office. Should Abe Hamadeh be Arizona's next Attorney General? On November 8, Arizonans will decide.   It seemed only fitting that the world's leading legal podcast - which happens to be based in Arizona - should interview the leading candidates...

Send us Fan Mail Its that crazy season.  Every street corner is littered with signs. Your neighbor backs a candidate/issue you hate and clutters their yard with annoyance.  Your email is flooded with spam.  It's chaos, clutter and controversy - its election season and it probably has you asking IS THAT EVEN LEGAL? Bob talks with election law guru Roy Herrera about all things election law... I...

Send us Fan Mail Bob stopped by his colleagues office one day and saw a shredded tire sitting on the carpet. Another day, a visit featured a smashed bicycle in roughly the same space. What was going on in the office of catastrophic injury lawyer Michael Medina?   The lawyer was carefully analyzing the items that had been involved in crashes. When accidents turn fatal, lawyers often turn to wrongfu...

Send us Fan Mail  Whether you know it or not, AI  - artificial intelligence…is highly involved in your life. Can the law keep pace? AI is already completing sentences for you, creating buyer profiles about you, learning about your driving habits…trying to help you drive your car, and doing all sorts of other calculations that impact you.  AI creates fascinating issues in the law.  On this episode...

Send us Fan Mail The law of the land. You get used to it. Maybe you rely on it. Then, in a blink of an eye it can change. How should you think about that? Is it good, bad, or indifferent to our society when cases are overturned?  What does it say about our Constitution?  In this episode, Bob welcomes constitutional law professor Ilan Wurman to the show to talk, among other things...about these cas...

Send us Fan Mail You have it in your heart to give to a charity. There is a site set up for donations like yours. All good right?  Not so fast! Who organized the effort?  How much will ACTUALLY go to the intended recipients? What if you are scammed?  Listen in as attorney Kelsi Lane gives some good tips.  Here are some more from foolproofme.org. Beware of Campaigns Posted After a Tragedy or Natura...

Send us Fan Mail The ads are ubiquitous. The slogans annoying. Personal injury and car crash lawyers often get a bad rap. Sometimes deservedly so. As widespread as those billboards, radio ads and other assaults on the senses are...they are meant to address something almost all of us has experienced, or been touched by - a car accident.  When those accidents produce injuries, the "PI" law...

Send us Fan Mail The recent defamation trial featuring Johnny Depp and Amber Heard put the word defamation in the headlines. The entire world now knows too many details about the marriage of those two  - more perhaps than many of us care to. But, do we know about defamation and what it really means? Bob says too many people have talked about the trial for him to weigh in...but we bring back an epi...

Send us Fan Mail Many say there is a coming recession the likes of which this country hasn't seen in years. If you are behind on your bills with signs you may not recover, or if your business needs to restructure debt...bankruptcy is the fresh start you need. Contact a bankruptcy lawyer soon...before things get bad. It is, in a way, a shield you can deploy as you get your debt under control a...

Send us Fan Mail We have witnessed another U.S. Supreme Court confirmation recently. We have also witnessed the controversy when a draft SCOTUS majority opinion was leaked to the media resulting in  issues of privacy and protest. How do nomination processes differ between the Federal system and the judicial system in Arizona?  What is it like, from a Justice's perspective, to go through the p...

Send us Fan Mail Welcome to the definitive Estate Planning podcast episode. 1. Can You Trust Your Trust? 2. If You Are One of the Thousands of Business Owners Planning to Sell Your Business This Year...How Can Your Protect Your Wealth  Once You've Accomplished The Sale? The parent passes and the prospective heirs say... we are in good shape. We have a trust!  Then they find out...as guest att...

Send us Fan Mail Revenge Porn has recently been the plot of daytime soap operas, been an issue on international reality shows, and of course has had a number of high profile celebrity victims in recent years. Increasingly, however, for many married couples whose relationships go south, the issue is hitting  close to home during divorce discussions as threats to reveal intimate photos are made or a...

Send us Fan Mail Is it really "natural" food? (hint, there is NO definition from the FDA)   Does it really have fruit in it, or just "flavoring?"   How much beef in a "beef,"   fast food item is "reasonable?" What if the package is half empty whey you buy it?  What if it is baby food and contains dangerous metals? If a cow eats GMO grain, is it's milk n...

Send us Fan Mail Last month The Washington Post published this headline:  Biden administration promised bankruptcy reforms.   So why is it still fighting student loan borrowers in court? While the administration withdrew its appeal to one of the hardship cases mentioned in the article,  there is still widespread misunderstanding about bankruptcy and the student loan crisis - what can and can'...

Send us Fan Mail It all started with a scandal in the 1900s. A royal with a mistress to whom he literally left the  family jewels... After much pubic embarrassment and a costly ruby buy back programme, it became the practice that Royal Family Wills be sealed and secret. Now, even distant relatives may get the royal treatment of a secret Will! Either in the U.S.A. or (for non-royals) in England, if...

Send us Fan Mail Last Thursday, the Supreme Court ruled that OSHA does NOT have the power to enforce Biden's COVID vaccine mandate for employees of large employers (if you are a regular listener to this podcast, you were no doubt NOT surprised by this ruling) the rule had just barely gone into effect, requiring employees at large businesses get a vaccine or test regularly and wear a mask on t...

Send us Fan Mail You've read the tabloids...the salacious divorce details of the world's rich and famous. Yet, somehow other equally powerful people manage to dissolve their unions with virtually no disclosure to the public, and maintaining a modicum of a relationship.  How is this done? Meet the "designer divorce," better known as the collaborative model.   Divorce takes an as...

Send us Fan Mail 'Tis the season to be jolly. Many will give and get bicycles for gifts, others will get festive with bike pub crawls or blast through college towns on scooters after having downed a few ounces of holiday cheer.  Is That Even Legal?  Bob takes to the road in tights with one of our favorite guests, avid bicyclist and attorney Marshall Hunt, who has been on a legal journey to fi...

Send us Fan Mail Restrictive covenants. Non-competes. Some states allow their enforcement. Some states don't. In an increasingly mobile employment environment and in a time when the "Great Resignation," is sweeping the country, the Federal Government is paying a lot of attention to trying to "promote competitive labor markets and worker mobility."  This effort is in respon...

Send us Fan Mail Democratic lawmakers in the House of Representatives have advanced updated legislation containing the tax elements of President Biden’s Build Back Better agenda.  It could get voted on this week! The draft legislation may be modified before that.  What does it mean for you? Bob goes to the mystic tax guru Elliot Barela to read the future.... Using the Tax Foundations General Equil...

Send us Fan Mail The law effects every aspect of our lives - including healthcare.  Bob likes to say we have the best healthcare money can buy in America...but it takes a lot of money to buy it! Bob has questions: Why does it cost so much to get good healthcare and what is being done to bring those costs down? What is being done to make access to healthcare  more equitable? What happens to patient...

Send us Fan Mail Welcome to the Pandora Papers Episode! Some of your favorite pop stars...the leaders of foreign governments and other high profile people have been exposed by "investigative journalists," for their "secret" dealings overseas! And, some states in the U.S. enable  private transactions and accounts that protect the name of individuals from both in and outside the...

Send us Fan Mail Many agree that there is a significant justice gap. We have a very long way to go before we achieve "justice for all." Cost of services, access, equity, and even elements of our legal system contribute to that gap. There may not be another person in America who is more passionate about closing that gap than LegalShield CEO, Jeff Bell. Listen in as Bob sits down with Jeff...

Send us Fan Mail Today the Biden administration issued a sweeping plan aimed at battling COVID. That plan includes  mandating vaccinations for employees of companies  that have more than 100 workers.  Is that even legal? We begin this episode with a true story. It's a story of a former pastor and his son. They were both quite healthy.  In the town where they lived, there was an ordinance that...

Send us Fan Mail Is That Even Legal? Game Changer: Meet Nona Lee, Chief Legal Officer, Arizona Diamondbacks SHOW NOTES On August 14, 2021, the modern-era record in Major League Baseball for most no-hitters thrown in a season was broken in a sensational way by Arizona Diamondbacks pitcher, Tyler Gilbert, who achieved the feat in his first career big league start…the first time that has happened sin...