Legal Chaos Podcast

On this week's episode of the Legal Chaos podcast, we welcome attorney Charles M. Rowland into the studio. Charlie is an experienced Dayton, Ohio defense lawyer with a practice dedicated specifically to OVI/DUI defense. Charlie was the first private attorney in the state of Ohio certified on the Intoxilyzer 8000 breath testing machine. He is a member and graduate of the National College for D...

On this week's episode we welcome one of our own; Gounaris Abboud's head of Family Law, Lauren Davenport. Lauren is a Dayton native and graduate of the University of Dayton Law School. Before moving into Family Law, Lauren spent 8 years as a general practice attorney and Guardian Ad Litem. Our conversation with Lauren touched on most of her primary duties at Gounaris Abboud; divorce, dis...

The hectic week in the Luigi Mangione saga continues. On this week's Legal Brief, Nick and Tony discuss new reports indicating Mangione and his team may now be headed toward a guilty plea. Details are scarce but there are many reasons why they might be doing this. This would be the third major change in direction in 8 days. 

This week we welcome the current elected Prosecutor of Greene County, Ohio David Hayes to the show. David is a longtime public servant dedicated to protecting his community and pursuing justice. With more than 20 years experience in the prosecutors office, David has handled thousands of felony cases and tried dozens of serious criminal cases before juries, including homicide and violent crime pros...

In a shocking turn of events, the Luigi Mangione defense team has withdrawn the extreme emotional disturbance (EED) plea a single day after filing it with the state court in New York. It's hard to tell at this point what lead to this change but it was clearly not an ideal sequence of events for the Mangione defense team. Join us for our first ever Legal Brief minisode to hear Nick and Tony di...

Luigi Mangione did it. At least this is what we can assume as his defense team refocuses their efforts to a present an "extreme emotional disturbance" defense in his state case. Even though this is similar to an NGRI, there are important differences as Nick and Tony discuss. Also on this week's episode of the Legal Chaos Podcast, we bring it back for another in-house episode and dis...

On this week's episode of the Legal Chaos Podcast, we are honored to welcome Dayton, Ohio legend, veteran crime reporter, and friend of the show Mike Campbell. Mike is one of the most recognizable and trusted faces in the Miami Valley. During his 40-year career, Mike has served his community as producer, assignment editor, videographer, and reporter with WHIO-TV, covering some of the biggest...

On this week's episode of the Legal Chaos Podcast, Nick and Tony speak with guest and friend of the show Dennis Eng. Dennis has spent more than 25 years at the intersection of law enforcement, security, investigations, and executive leadership. He is a former FBI Special Agent and current Task Force Director who has led investigations involving organized crime, narcotics trafficking, public c...

On this week's episode of the Legal Chaos Podcast, Nick and Tony get back to the basics in a deep discussion about OVI/DUI. What should I do when I am pulled over and suspected of driving while intoxicated? Should I take the breathalyzer? Should I perform the field sobriety tests? What happens if I refuse field sobriety test? Are the police there to help me? Are the police there to protect us...

On this week's episode of the Legal Chaos Podcast, Nick and Tony welcome our first guest and friend of the podcast Michael L. Wright. Michael is a nationally recognized civil litigator, trial attorney, and relentless defender of the people. Based in Ohio, Michael has spent decades taking on powerful mega entities such as the NHL, OSU, and Wal Mart, along with insurance companies, hospitals, a...

What is the difference between deception, predisposition, and manipulation? On this week's episode of the Legal Chaos podcast, Nick and Tony take a step away from the technology world to look at some more traditional real world cases. There was big news in the Alex Murdoch case as his appeal for a new trial succeeded after it was discovered that the clerk of courts had influenced the jury in...

On this week's episode of the Legal Chaos Podcast, Nick and Tony continue their conversation of technology's interactions with the legal system. The two discuss a local story about Flock cameras here in Dayton, Ohio; the Georgia prosecutor who was recently disciplined after submitting court documents consisting of various AI hallucinations in a murder case filing; Congress's extensi...

On this week's episode of the Legal Chaos Podcast, Nick and Tony tackle technology, corporate power, and the overload our legal system is under as issues and culture continue to move faster than the law's ability to respond. Nick and Tony discuss the wrongful death suit filed against Alani energy drinks, the geofence warrants that put into question our fourth amendment rights and expecta...

This was a very busy week in the legal world. On this week’s episode of the Legal Chaos podcast, Nick and Tony dissect the Trump administration’s reclassification of marijuana, Kash Patel’s $250 million defamation lawsuit against The Atlantic, a class action lawsuit in California brought against Flock cameras in regards to data ownership and privacy concerns, the murder charges brought against the...

This week's episode of the Legal Chaos podcast focused on responsibility and culpability. From NBA betting scandals, a debate over Uber drivers being employees or contractors, Amazon drivers, The New York Times battles with AI, and more, Dayton, Ohio Criminal Defense Attorneys Nick Gounaris and Tony Abboud debate who is at fault when there are no clear answers for culpability. 

On this week's episode of the Legal Chaos Podcast, Nick and Tony discuss Trump's new executive order concerning NIL in college sports, making the decisions to become lawyers, law school, and what the future of the law profession looks like for young lawyers. 

On this episode of the Legal Chaos Podcast, hosts Nick Gounaris and Tony Abboud discuss NIL contracts, coaches contracts, Justin Timberlake, Tiger Woods, and other current legal issues in the news. 

On this inaugural episode of the Legal Chaos Podcast, Dayton Criminal Defense Attorneys Nick Gounaris and Tony Abboud discuss Afroman, Luigi Mangione, Celebrity defense lawyers, sports betting, and the ins and outs of the legal profession.