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Michael Melonakos of the Melonakos Firm of Greenville, South Carolina joins us for episode 136. Mike and I used to work together at Goodman McGuffey Lindsey & Johnson and it was great catching back up. Mike moved to South Carolina in 2018 and opened up his own Plaintiffs personal injury firm – moving to a city where he did not have any professional connections. Hear how he made it work. We als...

Josh, Jason and Laurence take you around the country to recap Week 15 of the 2024 college football season. We discuss: -UGA beating Texas to win the SEC -Carson Beck gets hurt and what that means for UGA -4 Conference Championship Games Recap -Final College Football Playoff Rankings and Seedings -J. Stein Law Firm Injury Report -Sucker Bet of the Week Year in Review -Jimbo of the Year As always, t...

Arthur York joins Sports ‘N Torts for episode 134. A native Georgian, Arthur is an attorney in Atlanta handling personal injury cases with an emphasis on premises liability. In this episode we discuss: -cutting his teeth on slip and fall cases; -learning the practice of law from the plaintiff and defense standpoint; -opening up his law firm and decisions he has made along the way about growth; -vi...

Josh, Jason and Laurence take you around the country to recap Week 14 of the 2024 college football season. This week we were pleased to have Texas Longhorn fan and host of the Dirty Verdict podcast Peter Taaffe join us. We discuss: -UGA beating Tech in an epic 8 OT thriller -Texas beating A&M to punch a ticket to SECCG and Peter in attendance in College Station (with his son making a key inter...

Josh, Jason and Laurence take you around the country to recap Week 13 of the 2024 college football season. We discuss: -UGA beating UMass -Chaos in the SEC -UGA making the SECCG -Updated look at the college football playoff rankings -our thoughts on scenarios and how this all plays out -Preview of UGA-Ga Tech -J. Stein Law Firm Injury Report -Sucker Bet of the Week -Jimbo of the Week As always, th...

Steve Litner joins Sports ‘N Torts for episode 131. A native Bostonian holding degrees from University of Maryland, University of North Carolina and University of Florida, Steve has a wide range of knowledge and background that helped him in his law practice. Steve is the founding partner of the Atlanta law firm Litner + Deganian. In this episode we discuss: -his background as a teacher, counselor...

Josh, Jason and Laurence take you around the country to recap Week 12 of the 2024 college football season. We discuss: -UGA beating TN in an epic night in Athens, GA -Current power rankings in the SEC and where all the teams stand -Updated College Football Playoff rankings -Scenarios to watch for -Current status of Big 10 -Preview of UGA-Umass -J. Stein Law Firm Injury Report -Sucker Bet of the We...

A mediator, a plaintiffs lawyer, a defense lawyer and a wannabe podcaster walk into a bar…while that sounds like a great start to a joke, it is episode 129 of Sports ‘N Torts. Each with their musical instruments as members of their band Better By Daylight, it was so awesome having Joe Murphey (on the drums), Bobby Johnson (on bass guitar) and Sam Britt (singing and on guitar) join the podcast this...

Josh, Jason and Laurence take you around the nation with a recap of Week 11 of the 2024 college football season. We discuss: -UGA losing to Ole Miss and where UGA goes from here -Bama beating down LSU -Current state of the race to the SECCG -Breakdown of this weeks top 12 in the CFB Playoffs -Big 10 with 4 of the top 5 teams -Preview of UGA vs TN -Sucker Bet of the Week -Jimbo of the Week -J. Stei...

Zach Shewmaker joins episode 127 of Sports ‘N Torts. Zach is a founding partner of the law firm of Horst Shewmaker. Based in Alpharetta, Zach and his partner Michael Horst opening their firm in 2019 and have seen steady and impressive growth. Zach has has a refreshing approach to law firm management, the business of law and developing/litigating personal injury cases. Zach also has a bunch of inte...

Josh, Jason and Laurence take you around the country to recap Week 10 of the 2024 college football season. We discuss: -UGA beating FL and what is wrong with Carson Beck -Current power rankings in the SEC and where all the teams stand -OSU beats PSU while Indiana keeps winning -ACC down to Miami and SMU -Preview of UGA-Ole Miss -J. Stein Law Firm Injury Report -Sucker Bet of the Week -Jimbo of the...

Blade Thompson from Blade Injury Law joins the podcast for episode 125. Blade is a personal injury lawyer in Atlanta who has a solo law firm that he runs just about as efficiently as any lawyer out there. Blade grew up in a small town and shares his motivation for becoming a lawyer and why he has chosen to become licensed to practice law in 3 states. In this episode we discuss: -the processes used...

Josh, Jason and Laurence take you around the country to recap Week 9 of the CFB season. We discuss: -how UGA (and us) spent the bye weekend -current standings in the SEC and what the race to the SECCG looks like -TAMU beating LSU to grab top slot of SEC -Bama and Texas winning and moving on -Coach Prime becoming bowl eligible -Our own Kennesaw State Owls winning their first D1 game -IU remaining u...

Allen McDuffie and Jeff Yashinsky join Sports ‘N Torts for Episode 123. Jeff and Allen were my first bosses at my first law firm job after Law School at the Progressive In-House Law Firm. Jeff, along with our friend Tara Parker, were the ones who interviewed me while I was a 2 nd year law student at UGA and somehow I convinced them to offer me a job. We had a great time reminiscing about all worki...

Josh, Jason and Laurence take you around the country to recap Week 8 of the college football season. We discuss: -UGA beating #1 ranked UT and Jason's trip to Austin for the game -Bama loses again and in jeopardy of missing the playoffs -are LSU and TAMU for real? -Contenders and pretenders in the Big 10 -Miami survives again -Sucker Bet of the Week -Jimbo of the Week As always, this episode is po...

This was really fun. Sports ‘N Torts joined up with Texas lawyers Pete Taaffe, Kyle Herbert and Bill Ogden who host The Dirty Verdict podcast out of Houston on this collaboration episode. These guys are some of the best in business in handling, litigating and mediating cases in Texas. Our two podcasts joined together for a special preview episode of the October 19, 2024 University of Georgia v. Un...

Josh, Jason and Laurence take you around the nation to recap Week 7 of the 2024 college football season. We discuss: -UGA beating MSU -Close games all across the SEC and the new parity in the league -Big 10 getting tight games with highly ranked teams early in the season -Coaches blowing it at the end of games -Army and Navy ranked in Top 25 -Preview of UGA vs Texas -J. Stein Law Firm Injury Repor...

Alan Holcomb joins Sports ‘N Torts for Episode 119. Alan is a graduate of UGA and Emory Law School. Alan is a lawyer in Atlanta who has been widely recognized for his legal prowess and trusted experience as a trial lawyer in serious injury cases involving trucking accidents, product liability, traumatic brain injuries, burn injuries, medical malpractice and mass torts. I have been trying to schedu...

Josh, Jason and Laurence take you around the country to recap Week 6 of the college football season. We discuss: -UGA beating Auburn for the 8th straight year -Upsets in the SEC including Vandy beating Bama, Mizzou losing to TAMU and Arkansas beating Tenn -Shake up in the AP Top 10 -Miami holding on vs Cal -Big games in Week 7 including OSU-Oregon -Preview of UGA-MSU -J. Stein Law Firm Injury Repo...

Randy Edwards from Cochran & Edwards joins us for episode 117 of Sports ‘N Torts. Randy is a trial lawyer in Atlanta, GA who handles cases in Business Litigation, RICO, Personal Injury/Wrongful Death and Insurance Coverage/Bad Faith. Prior to attending Law School and becoming a lawyer, Randy was a 4 year letterman and 3 year starter as a defensive lineman for the University of Alabama where he...

Josh, Jason and Laurence take you all around the nation for this weeks episodes of College Football's Last Call. We discuss: -the instant classic between UGA and Bama -impact UGA's loss has on the playoffs -Kentucky beating Ole Miss -Miami-Va Tech last second instant replay -UNLV QB NIL mess -Arch Manning SEC debut -Preview of UGA-Auburn -Sucker Bet of the Week -JImbo of the Week As always, this e...

Sports ‘N Torts is live on the road in Ireland for a special episode of the podcast. Jason Mullen, one of Josh’s oldest and best friends since 1 st grade joins the podcast from their golf trip in Ireland where Josh, Jason, Jason’s brother John and 5 other guys are celebrating the life of Jason’s dad – Coach John. Coach John passed away a few years ago and one of his last wishes was asking his sons...

Jason, Laurence, Tom and Nick join join forces on this weeks College Football Last Call and take you all around the country. As always, this episode is powered by the J. Stein Law Firm - a personal injury law firm in Atlanta, Ga - www.jsteinlawfirm.com

Lawyer Cory Sterling joins us for this weeks episode of Sports ‘N Torts. Cory is a lawyer from Canada who has completely reinvented how to practice law. HIs practice is something that so many of us lawyers simply dream about. A former big firm lawyer who felt trapped by his desk job, Cory is now an entrepreneur who runs an online law firm and practices law from all over the world. He was kite surf...

Josh, Jason and Laurence take you around the nation to recap Week 3 of the 2024 college football season. We discuss: -UGA surviving its trip to Kentucky -Bama blowing out Wisconsin -Texas Longhorns love -Florida/Florida St. freefall -Status of the Power 4 conferences 25% of the way into the season -Sucker Bet of the Week -Jimbo of the Week -J. Stein Law Firm Injury Report As always this episode is...