TrustCast Show

What happens when a woman who survived sexual assault, an arranged marriage, and a traumatic divorce spends 25 years watching her clients repeat the same emotional spiral she lived through — and then decides to build something the legal system never could? In this episode of the Trustcast Show, Zane Myers speaks with Poonam Bhuchar, divorce strategist and founder of the SAFE Method, about why the...

What happens when a kid from Utica who argued with every teacher in high school founds the first mock trial team at his college, trains at one of the most selective trial programs in the country, and then launches a firm from a 10-by-10 office with no secretary, no marketing budget, and no roadmap — and grows it into one of the fastest growing law firms in the nation? In this episode of the Trustc...

What happens when a Chicago trial lawyer trained in Xerox sales techniques clerks for an Illinois Supreme Court justice, then goes on to win the biggest legal malpractice judgment in Ohio history against the self-proclaimed largest law firm in the world — and spends eleven years on the side writing a 720-page biography of Huey Long? In this episode of the Trustcast Show, Zane Myers speaks with Tom...

What happens when a boy adopted at four months old in Green Bay, Wisconsin grows up to become one of only a hundred divorce trial lawyers in the country selected for the American College of Family Trial Lawyers — and then represents the most famous athlete in the world? In this episode of the Trustcast Show, Zane Myers speaks with James Quigley, equity partner at Beermann Law, Chicago's largest di...

What happens when a Philadelphia prosecutor who spent nearly a decade putting people behind bars starts to see the other side — and eventually crosses over entirely to fight for the people the system failed? In this episode of the Trustcast Show, Zane Myers speaks with Laurie Jubelirer, founder of Jubelirer Law, about her remarkable evolution from DA to defense attorney, the wrongful convictions s...

What happens when a family law attorney builds the largest family law department at a major Utah firm, walks away to sell LegalTech, and then decides within 10 months to come back and build something entirely his own — from zero clients to 10 attorneys, 3,000-plus clients served, and a national ABA leadership role in under three years? In this episode of the Trustcast Show, Zane Myers speaks with...

What happens when a business litigation attorney who runs an improv theater wakes up one morning and gets the phone call that changes everything — and then spends the next several years fighting for his wife, his family, and eventually himself, in ways law school never prepared him for? In this episode of the Trustcast Show, Zane Myers speaks with Matt Ames, partner at Balch & Bingham in Atlanta a...

What happens when a first-generation college student from a military family grows up to argue a case before the United States Supreme Court — twice — and then builds his own firm on the Texas-New Mexico border handling everything from federal criminal defense to cycling accident cases he knows personally? In this episode of the Trustcast Show, Zane Myers speaks with Gabriel Perez, founder of Gabri...

What happens when a small-town Oklahoma girl whose principal told her she'd have a secretary one day becomes one of the country's top litigators — and then retires to her cattle ranch to write fantasy adventure books for kids? In this episode of the Trustcast Show, Zane Myers speaks with Sharla Frost, former managing partner of Powers & Frost and first chair trial counsel in over 60 jury trials, i...

What happens when a drafted Army lieutenant who prosecuted courts martial before ever setting foot in law school goes on to become a founding partner of one of America's most decorated plaintiff's firms — with over $3 billion recovered and 21 seven-figure verdicts to his name? In this episode of the Trustcast Show, Zane Myers speaks with Steve Heninger, founding partner of Heninger Garrison Davis...

What happens when a wrestler from Illinois ends up surfing before court in Palm Beach County, defending people on the worst days of their lives with over 200 five-star Google reviews and a life felony reduced to a sealed misdemeanor? In this episode of the Trustcast Show, Zane Myers speaks with Matthew Konecky, founder of Konecky Law in Palm Beach County, Florida, about his 20-plus-year criminal d...

What happens when a former felony prosecutor walks away from law to homestead a ranch and homeschool her kids in the Rio Grande Valley — and then gets pulled back in by a client desperate for someone who would actually fight for them? In this episode of the Trustcast Show, Zane Myers speaks with Octavia Martinez, founder of Octavia Martinez Law, about her unconventional path from UVA undergrad to...

What happens when an insurance attorney spends two decades flying across the country to investigate crane collapses, smelting explosions, and forklift accidents — and then bets everything on building the largest dedicated workers' comp subrogation practice in the country? In this episode of the Trustcast Show, Zane Myers speaks with Brett Tishler, a Philadelphia-based attorney at Derrevere Law, ab...

What happens when a triple board certified sleep medicine physician who spent years keeping the sickest ICU patients alive finally admits she was a chronic insomniac the entire time — and then COVID breaks her sleep so completely that she rebuilds her entire career around fixing it? In this episode of the Trustcast Show, Zane Myers speaks with Dr. Alison Kole, founder of Oak Health Center and medi...

In this episode of the Trustcast Show, host Zane Myers talks with Carolyn Daly - partner and chair of the Family Law Group at Cohen Seglias who trademarked "Divorce Without Drama" after nearly 30 years in New Jersey family law. She ran her own firm (Daly & Associates) for 13 years before merging to build something bigger, handles everything from high conflict custody battles to dividing cryptocurr...

In this episode of the Trustcast Show, host Zane Myers talks with Joe Jones - co-founder and CEO of StreamSettle, a legal tech platform using triple blind encryption to settle insurance claims before either side knows what the other submitted. He went from defending Marines in military courtrooms to board certified trial lawyer (distinction held by less than 6% of Texas attorneys) to bootstrapping...

In this episode of the Trustcast Show, host Zane Myers talks with Anthony McLaren - an LA trial attorney who collects the money other lawyers can't, climbed the highest mountain on every continent in just over two years (including Everest) with almost no support and on a $120,000 shoestring budget. After his father died of Parkinson's at age 59, Anthony summited Kilimanjaro 11 months later, then c...

Esther Kane spent 12 years as an occupational therapist walking through seniors' homes spotting hazards before falls happened. Then she ran a digital marketing company for 25 years helping small businesses rank on Google. At 60, instead of retiring to play pickleball, she fused these two worlds into something the aging industry desperately needed. Falls cost $50 billion annually in medical expense...

The U.S. Surgeon General called loneliness as deadly as smoking 15 cigarettes a day. Cheri Alvarez is doing something about it—leading an international movement built on a radical idea: that a single friend can change someone's mental health. As CEO of Compeer Buffalo and Compeer International, Cheri oversees programs in 40 communities across four countries. Compeer matches trained volunteers with...

What does it take to represent families after murder, child sexual abuse, catastrophic injury, and life changing negligence? In this episode of the Trustcast Show, Zane Myers speaks with Connecticut trial lawyer Paul Slager, partner at Slager Madry in Stamford, Connecticut. Paul shares the mindset behind taking only the most serious cases and why real justice is about more than money. They discuss...

Ari Sliffman made history as the first student in Marquette Law School history to graduate with dual certificates in dispute resolution and sports law. His 2011 paper arguing that NFL Super Bowl clean zones violate the First Amendment was published in the Marquette Sports Law Review—and in 2023, an Arizona Superior Court cited his argument when ruling against Phoenix's clean zone ordinance for Sup...

What happens when an Emmy nominated investigative reporter becomes a catastrophic injury trial lawyer? In this episode of the Trustcast Show, Zane Myers speaks with Amy Bradley, a principal at Blankingship and Keith, about her journey from newsroom storytelling to high stakes personal injury litigation. Amy shares how her background as a TV investigative reporter shaped the way she tells client st...

What happens when a special education teacher follows her instincts all the way through school counseling, higher education leadership, custody evaluation, and finally a thriving private practice that has been serving people for 25 years? In this episode of the Trustcast Show, Zane Myers speaks with Ellen Zimmerman, licensed clinical professional counselor and founder of Comprehensive Counseling i...

What happens when a Navy veteran who flew combat missions in the Persian Gulf, served at Guantanamo, and led Marines in Iraq decides his next mission is protecting growth-stage companies from legal disaster? In this episode of the Trustcast Show, Zane Myers speaks with Aaron Pease, founding principal of Highbridge Law and partner at Renegade Capital Partners, about his extraordinary journey from e...

In 1968, Frederick McCurdy was working his dream job for the US Forest Service in California's Klamath National Forest—fishing for trout at breakfast and counting trees for a living. Then President Johnson conscripted him to fight in Vietnam. That draft changed everything. Assigned to a German army hospital lab, two doctors—a pediatrician and a surgeon—wouldn't leave him alone. Night after night d...