The Lawyers Hip Hop Happy Hour

Lawyer’s Hip Hop Happy Hour: Live from Howard Law! (20th Anniversary Reunion Episode) In this special live episode, we take the Lawyer’s Hip Hop Happy Hour back to where it all began—Howard University School of Law. Recorded in front of a live audience during Homecoming Week, this vibrant panel celebrates 20 years since our graduation and showcases the brilliance, resilience, and rhythm of HUSL al...

Welcome to the Lawyer’s Hip Hop Happy Hour! This month’s featured guest is powerhouse anesthesiologist Dr. Bella Speight, and her journey in medicine is nothing short of extraordinary.  She’s incredibly in tune with the world around her, unapologetically opinionated, and not afraid to speak up when it matters most. This month’s episode is the story of a woman thriving in a demanding, high-sta...

Welcome to the Lawyer’s Hip Hop Happy Hour! Welcome back to part two of my interview of powerhouse anesthesiologist Dr. Bella Speight. In the first half, we got into her remarkable journey of becoming a physician and a force in the medical field. But now—we’re switching lanes as we always do…. One thing about Bella – she loves a powerful woman like Lil Kim – but she also loves her some Southe...

Welcome to this month’s episode of Behind the Scenes—where we slow things down, cue up the soundtrack, and dig a little deeper into the music that brought my interview with Dr. Bella Speight to life. This month’s episode is called One Night in Belize —a title inspired by an unforgettable night of karaoke, laughter, and big energy with some crazy folks, including Bella. What started as a 50th birth...

Welcome to the Lawyer's Hip Hop Happy Hour! This month’s episode features an interview with powerhouse personal injury attorney, Samuel Anyan, Esq. from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Sam has successfully represented clients in all types of injury cases - including against major corporations. He has recovered millions of dollars on behalf of his clients.  Sam’s journey in the law is inspiri...

Welcome to the Lawyer’s Hip Hop Happy Hour.  This month I had the pleasure to sit down with my good friend and law school classmate, Personal Injury Attorney Samuel Anyan, from Philadelphia, PA. Sam is one of the country’s most preeminent personal injury lawyers, having recovered millions of dollars on behalf of his clients.    During this part of the interview, Sam and I chose a lo...

Welcome to this month’s episode of BTS with my old law school classmate, Personal Injury Attorney Samuel Anyan. For this episode - I am going to discuss some of the great music that was in heavy rotation during my time in law school twenty + years ago. Jay-Z’s the Black Album, Kanye’s College – Dropout, Common’s album “Be”, and T.I.’s Trap Muzik – all came from this era. Bonafide hip-hop...

Welcome to the Lawyer’s Hip Hop Happy Hour.   This month’s episode features an interview with Attorney Marguerite Lanaux, the District Public Defender for the City of Baltimore. Ms. Lanaux is the lead attorney for the Public Defender’s Office in the City of Baltimore.  She and I discussed some of her most interesting cases as a trial attorney, her current job responsibilities as the...

Welcome to the Lawyer’s Hip Hop Happy Hour.  This month I had the pleasure to sit down Marguerite Lanaux, the District Public Defender for the City of Baltimore. Ms. Lanaux oversees the attorneys of the Public Defender’s Office for Baltimore City, an office that provides representation for thousands of people charged with criminal offenses each year.  A native of Long Island, NY, Marguer...

Welcome to this month’s Behind the Scenes Episode with District Public Defender for the City of Baltimore, Attorney Marguerite Lanaux. For this episode - I decided to focus on the rich hip-hop culture of Marguerite’s hometown of Long Island, NY.  Most people talk about New York City being the birthplace of hip-hop....they mention the importance of the Bronx, Brooklyn, Queens and even Sta...

On this month’s episode I was joined by Louisiana State Senator and practicing civil litigation attorney Royce Duplessis, Esq. Senator Duplessis represents Louisiana’s 5th State Senate district, which is primarily located in the great city of New Orleans. He and I discussed his career path and the things that led him to become of the State’s most visible political leaders. We also discussed his ti...

Welcome to the Lawyer’s Hip-Hop Happy Hour. This month I had the pleasure of hosting Louisiana State Senator Royce Duplessis. He represents the State’s 5th Senate district, which is primarily located in the great city of New Orleans. In this second segment of my interview, he and I discussed his love for all things hip-hop. Senator Duplessis is a New Orleans native, so you already know his musical...

Welcome to the Barry White BTS tribute episode. This month’s guest, Louisiana State Senator Royce Duplessis, is one smooth dude – so it’s fitting that this month’s featured artist is none other than the man with the silky-smooth voice of soul, Mr. Barry White! Barry’s records were in heavy rotation in Royce’s house growing up this episode is for you and all the other smooth cats out there in...

Attorney Warren Brown has been the preeminent criminal defense attorney in Baltimore, Maryland since the late 1980's. Warren graduated from Boston University School of Law in 1977. He worked as both a prosecutor and a federal defender before opening his own law practice in 1988. Warren and I discuss some of his most famous cases, including his representation of Dontee Stokes, a man accused of the...

Attorney Warren Brown has been Baltimore's preeminent criminal defense attorney since the late 1980's. Warren and I discussed the music scene of the 1970's and how living in Harlem, NY before going to law school opened his eyes and ears to the music of Gil Scott Heron; the godfather of hip-hop. He and I discussed how groups like the Last Poets, Earth Wind & Fire, and other artists from the era...

Gil-Scott Heron is the godfather of hip-hop. I was inspired to create this episode after learning that Warren Brown fell in love with his music in the mid-1970's when he was living in Harlem NYC. Join me as I discuss some of his most important works, and let's listen to the songs and artists that sampled his music throughout the years!

Attorney Rizwan “Rizzy” Quereshi is a Washington D.C. based partner at the global law firm Reed Smith. Rizzy specializes in white collar criminal defense, securities enforcements, internal investigations and related civil litigation.  Rizzy honed his trial skills as a federal prosecutor for the District of Columbia where he rose quickly in the ranks to serve in senior roles in both the V...

Attorney Rizwan “Rizzy” Qureshi is a partner at the international law firm Reed Smith. He specializes in white collar criminal defense and other related matters, and he has the distinction of graduating from THE Howard University School of Law. Rizzy is the American dream, a Philadelphia native, whose family originates from Pakistan. He is a lifelong fan of hip-hop, and it just happens t...

In this special behind the scenes episode, I’m going to highlight one of my favorite artists of all time, who also happens to be a friend of our featured guest, a man who is universally considered to be one of the all-time great lyricists in hip-hop.  Mr. Tariq Trotter, also known as Black Thought, the lead MC of the Roots Crew.   He is a part of too many great songs for me to fit t...

Attorney David Clunie is an equity partner at the financial services & wealth management firm Edward Jones. Prior to joining Edward Jones, he worked as the Executive Director of the Black Economic Alliance, a nonpartisan coalition of Black business leaders and allies. Dave started his career in Big Law, at the NYC firm Paul Weiss, Rifkand, Wharton and Garrison, leaving the firm briefly to...

Attorney David Clunie is currently an equity partner at the financial services firm Edward Jones.  He is the former executive director of the Black Economic Alliance and worked in the Obama White House and Department of Treasury. Dave grew up in New York City during hip-hop’s golden era. Not only is he from New York, but he’s from the birthplace of hip-hop, the Boogie Down Bronx.&nb...

Welcome to the BTS episode of my interview with Attorney David Clunie. Dave is an equity partner at the Wealth Management Firm Edward Jones, and a New York City native- hailing from the birthplace of hip-hop – the Boogie Down Bronx.   This month's episode is dedicated to Bronx MC's! Some of the albums Dave chose from the crates included Camp Lo’s 1996 cult classic Uptown Saturday Ni...

Attorney, PhD, and Georgetown Law Professor Christopher Brummer, is the host of the award-winning podcast Fintech Beat, and the founder of Fintech Week, an annual financial technology conference in Washington, D.C. Chris and I discuss his childhood in rural Arkansas and the scholarship he received as a young man that enabled him to travel abroad that changed his life. We discuss his undergraduate...

Attorney, PhD, and Georgetown Law Professor Chris Brummer and I reminisce about some of our favorite classic hip-hop albums. We discuss the importance of Southern artists like OutKast, 8-Ball and UGK to the Southern hip-hop scene. He talks about living in West Philly during the Roots heyday, and his fond memories of early 90’s West Coast hip-hop pioneers Snoop Dogg and Dr. Dre.  Chr...

 Join me as I break down some of my favorite tracks from these all-time great albums: 1) The Roots 1999 album Things Fall Apart; 2) Outkast, 1996 game changer ATLiens; 3) and the greatest gangsta rap album in East Coast History, Mobb Deep’s 1995. classic album, The Infamous. Don't forget to check out the interview(s) where Fintech expert Christopher Brummer, Esq. and I discuss these albums at len...