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Thank you to our sponsor, Themis Bar Review !  Themis Law School Essentials will enhance your understanding of your course material and teach you skills to help you succeed in law school and beyond. It's all 100% free at  themisbarsocial.com/personaljxpod. Katie O'Neill is an associate in the Chicago office of Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP in the firm's Corporate Practice Group and is a me...

Thank you to our sponsor, Themis Bar Review !  Themis Law School Essentials will enhance your understanding of your course material and teach you skills to help you succeed in law school and beyond. It's all 100% free at  themisbarsocial.com/personaljxpod. Personal Jurisdiction listeners also get $300 off Themis’s bar prep course with this discount code: pjxspring300 . Valid through June 23, 2024....

Thank you to our sponsor, Themis Bar Review !  Themis Law School Essentials will enhance your understanding of your course material and teach you skills to help you succeed in law school and beyond. It's all 100% free at  themisbarsocial.com/personaljxpod. Personal Jurisdiction listeners get $500 off Themis’s bar prep course with this discount code: pjxspring24 Rebecca Petrilli graduated from Witt...

We may have recorded Season 2 back in 2022 but our guests' answers about the meaning of success are just as fresh as they were two years ago. Even if you have been listening since the beginning, we're sure you'll enjoy hearing 19 answers to the question, "What does success mean to you?" Get new episodes by email by subscribing to our Substack!  Thank you to our sponsor, Themis Bar Review!  Find us...

Loyal friends of the pod know we end every episode with the same question: "What does success mean to you?" And now, to kick off Season 5 of Personal Jurisdiction, we are looking back at the first set of answers to that question from our Season 1 guests. In this episode, we hear 11 different answers to our question, and then we discuss our thoughts on success during Due Diligence. Get new episodes...

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Connect with Roshanna on LinkedIn . Roshanna K. Toya is an enrolled member of the Pueblo of Isleta where she was born, raised, and resides today. She currently practices civil rights, criminal defense, and Indian law at Rothstein Donatelli in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Before going into private practice, Roshanna clerked for the New Mexico Court of Appeals and the U.S. District Court for the Distric...

Preston is a 2023 graduate of the University of New Mexico School of Law and a 2009 graduate of Southwestern University. He also holds a Master of Arts from St. John's College.  Jacqueline is a 2023 graduate of the University of New Mexico School of Law and a 2018 graduate of the University of New Mexico School of Engineering.  You can connect with Preston and Jacqueline on LinkedIn!  Get new epis...

Ross Guberman is the Founder and CEO of BriefCatch. BriefCatch is a tool that helps to solve legal writing challenges, including typos, citations, and legalese. Ross is the President of LegalWritingPro , a legal writing training company. Ross helps lawyers and judges enjoy writing. He conducts writing and editing workshops for law firms, agencies, and courts. He is the author of several best-selli...

Serge Martinez is a Professor at UNM School of Law, where he teaches, writes and practices in the area of housing law, with a focus on the rights of renters and improving housing stability. He has served as Associate Dean for Experiential Learning since 2019, meaning he heads up all of the clinic and externship programs at the law school. In 2020, Serge also helped launch Amparo, a nonprofit that...

Jessica Paduganan is a Litigation Associate at Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP. She has been practicing at the firm for just over a year. She is a 2017 graduate of the University of California, Berkeley, and a 2022 graduate of the University of Michigan Law School.  Connect with Jessica on LinkedIn Please Note: All opinions expressed in this episode are those of Jessica Paduganan, individually, and do n...

All opinions expressed in this episode are those of Rachel Levick, individually, and do not represent the opinions of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP. Rachel Levick is an environmental litigator and enforcement defense specialist practicing in Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher’s Litigation Department and in the firm’s Environmental Litigation and Mass Tort Practice Group in Washington, DC. She has represented c...

Lisa Haidostian is a Senior Director of Healthcare Compliance at Walgreens in Chicago. She has been at Walgreens for  two years. She started as Senior Counsel in the Government Litigation Group and then shifted to the Healthcare Compliance group in January of this year. Prior to Walgreens, Lisa was a partner at McDermott Will & Emery in Chicago where she focused her practice on commercial litigati...

Lauren Myerscough-Mueller and Megan Richardson are both Staff Attorneys at the Exoneration Project, a non-profit based in Chicago, Illinois, which provides free legal services to fight for the wrongfully convicted and free the innocent. Since its founding in 2007, the Exoneration Project has exonerated more than 200 clients.  Prior to starting at the Exoneration Project, Lauren represented the wro...

Thank you to the University of New Mexico School of Law for hosting us LIVE on November 2! Leon Howard is the Deputy Director of ACLU of New Mexico (ACLU-NM) . After graduating from the University of New Mexico School of Law in 2009, Leon worked as a staff attorney for ACLU-NM, concentrating on First and Fourth Amendment cases. Next, he left for the private sector where he continued to focus on ci...

Andrew Herrington-Gilmore is the Associate General Counsel of the Chicago Bulls. Prior to his work at the Bulls, he was an associate in Chicago at both Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP and Paul Hastings LLP doing primarily mergers and acquisitions and private equity work. He went on to become a partner at Duggan Bertsch, LLC before making the jump to in-house work at the Bulls.  In addition to his legal...

Kate Ferlic is the managing partner at the law firm of  Egolf, Ferlic, Martinez and Harwood in Santa Fe, New Mexico. An experienced litigator, Kate focuses her practice on cases involving catastrophic injury and wrongful death, sexual abuse, sexual assault, sexual harassment, equal pay for women, whistleblower actions, and civil rights.  Prior to founding of Egolf, Ferlic, Martinez and Harwood in...

Maria Griego is the Director of the New Mexico Center on Law & Poverty’s Economic Equity Team. In this role, she works to expand and protect access to safe and affordable housing in New Mexico and eliminate unjust fines and fees imposed by the legal system. Maria has been at the Center since 2014, and previously worked in both the Healthcare and Public Benefits teams where she focused on improving...

Learn more about Croke Fairchild Duarte & Beres here: https://crokefairchild.com Jessica Fairchild focuses her practice on corporate and mergers and acquisitions matters, where she counsels founders, private equity sponsors, family enterprises and corporations. She earned her B.S. in Accounting from the University of Illinois and her J.D. from the University of Chicago School of Law. Prior to foun...

Dan Sharpe is a Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Manager at Foley & Lardner LLP in Washington, D.C.  Dan is a graduate of Princeton University (2007) and the University of Virginia School of Law (2012).  This episode was a LinkedIn Live event in July 2023. Check out the video here: https://www.linkedin.com/posts/hallieritzu_personal-jurisdiction-live-with-dan-sharpe-activity-7084562659232133120-p5...

We loved this discussion so much that we made it a Season 4 episode! What were the Top 5 Lessons we've learned? See below: 1️⃣ "Nobody's life is perfect." - LinkedIn profiles and resumes tell a story but they don't tell the whole story - we all have successes, failures, setbacks, and personal problems that impact the decisions we make about our careers. 2️⃣ "There is no yellow brick road." - Your...

Karla Johnson is a Senior Staff Attorney with the Kinship Caregiver Law Project at the New York City-based civil legal services organization, Mobilization for Justice (MFJ). She has spent the last 3 years representing grandparents, siblings, aunts/uncles and fictive kin in custody, guardianship, and foster care cases. She also represents clients in special immigrant juvenile and adoption matters....

**Please note, as an episode touching on First Amendment Law, we use a couple of phrases that include profanity.  Sara Coulter is a First Amendment Fellow in the Case Western Reserve University School of Law’s First Amendment Clinic . Prior to her clinical teaching role, Sara worked in the Ohio Attorney General’s Office as an Assistant Attorney General in the Antitrust and Major Litigation groups....

Class Action with Katie Phang isan immersive 12 part documentary podcast series about the next generation of lawyers, heard through the voices of law students competing in mock trial tournaments around the country.​ You can listen to Class Action on iHeart , Spotify, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you like to listen!  Adria Kimbrough is the Student Recruiting Manager in the Marshall-Motley Scholars P...

Rachel Easter is Senior  Counsel and Director of Federal Abortion Policy Initiatives at the National Women's Law Center in Washington, D.C., She has spent the entirety of her legal career at the National Women's Law Center, starting out as a Women's Law and Public Policy Fellow and working her way up to Senior Counsel. Rachel is a 2014 graduate of Stanford Law School and a 2010 graduate of the Uni...