• Carey Beyer Helped Change an Unfair Law
    Feb 16 2026

    After a professional experience with an unfair law about holding dog owner's responsible for dog attacks, Carey Beyer made it his mission to help change the law.

    Carey also discusses his new move back to his hometown and new role at O'Connor and Partners.

    Also, Carey and I discuss his heavy involvement with the Trial Academy.

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    33 mins
  • Lindsay Langella's Many Roles and How She Manages Them All
    Jan 27 2026

    Lindsay is a trial lawyer, business owner, mom, Trial Academy Associate Board Chair, networking group founder, and more!

    In this episode Lindsay talks about how she manages all these different roles and the exciting things happening in her firms and organizations.

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    27 mins
  • Michael Solomon Established Liability and Obtained a Jury Verdict over 250k
    Nov 6 2025

    Michael Solomon is the Senior Trial Attorney at Smiley and Smiley LLP. Michael transitioned from Assistant District Attorney to Personal Injury Attorney in March 2020. Recently, he tried a case to verdict for an individual who was assaulted on a construction site. He discusses how he was able to obtain a jury verdict over 250k for his client in a case where the defendants heavily disputed liability.

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    28 mins
  • Michelle Stern Wants You to Join the Trial Academy
    Dec 1 2023

    Michelle Stern is the Executive Director of the New York State Academy of Trial Lawyers - a bar association dedicated to providing trial attorneys with interesting and informative CLEs and networking events.

    Michelle started as ED right out of law school and helped to take the academy from a few hundred members to over 5,000.

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    30 mins
  • His Slogan is Insure With Devin Hogan!
    Oct 31 2023

    Devin Hogan is an insurance broker with Hudson United. Devin can help you insure anything from investment properties to businesses to cars and boats. He has leveraged his affinity for meeting new people into a bulging book of business. In this episode we talk about how we met, his high school wrestling career, what it is like to be the president of a BNI Chapter and how he keeps attracting new business.

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    26 mins
  • The Mentor Esq. - Andrew Smiley
    Oct 4 2023

    Ever since he was young, Andrew Smiley has wanted to be a small business owner and trial attorney like his father Guy. Andrew's firm, Smiley and Smiley, maintains a small caseload and only handles significant injury cases. Andrew started trying cases immediately upon becoming admitted to practice law and is heavily involved in trial lawyer associations and producing high quality CLEs for fellow practitioners.

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    39 mins
  • The Time to Write a Book is Now! With Marco Salinas
    Jun 28 2023
    Marco Salinas owns two businesses Pina Colada Media and Expert Publishing Associates. Through both businesses, he helps business owners market their business, and themselves!Marco helps business owners and entrepreneurs write their own book that establishes them as an expert in their industry. Business cards go in the trash or desk drawer to be forgotten, but books stick around on shelves.
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    42 mins
  • Perfect Your Intake with Kerri Coby White
    Jun 12 2023

    Kerri Coby White is the CEO and co-founder of KerriJames. When she first began in legal marketing offering a wide scope of consulting services. However, she soon dialed in on intake. KerriJames works with its clients to ensure that the intake process is smooth, efficient, and converts as many leads into clients as possible.Kerri has just launched her new book, the Law Firm Growth Machine and a new product geared towards helping law firms at a lower cost.

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    38 mins