Episodes

What happens when a lawyer who has always had a heart for the little guy and no love for corporations comes out of law school, works first at a plaintiff's personal injury firm, then at a firm representing transit police officers and Metro North railroad police when they got into disciplinary trouble, forms a partnership in 1992, In this episode of the Trustcast Show, Zane Myers speaks with Jay, a New York City personal injury attorney with over three and a half decades of experience handling au...

What happens when a lawyer who has always had a heart for the little guy and no love for corporations comes out of law school, works first at a plaintiff's personal injury firm, then at a firm representing transit police officers and Metro North railroad police when they got into disciplinary trouble In this episode of the Trustcast Show, Zane Myers speaks with Jay, a New York City personal injury attorney with over three and a half decades of experience handling automobile negligence, pedestria...

What happens when a young woman goes to law school intending to work on the plaintiff's side, clerks and works for plaintiff's firms all the way through her training, graduates, and then ends up taking a job as a railroad defense lawyer fighting off injury claims from the exact people she always meant to help In this episode of the Trustcast Show, Zane Myers speaks with Feliz Rael of The Law Office of Feliz A. Rael in Albuquerque, New Mexico — a Super Lawyers selectee, AV Preeminent rated by Mar...

What happens when a Penn State Law graduate who sees himself as a trial attorney starts prosecuting drug and racketeering cases for the State of Arizona because that is where the courtroom work is, which is precisely what UIM coverage exists for, helps his friend gather medical records and draft the demand on a pro bono basis, and recovers in the UIM claim alone more than what the previous attorney had recovered in the entire liability proceeding — and then looks at what he just saw and decides ...

What happens when a Toronto personal injury lawyer whose South Asian parents emigrated from Nairobi to Canada in 1974 and sent her to private schools on high expectations grows up getting into trouble as a teenager so the expectations shift to her brother, watches law shows on television and decides she can see herself in a courtroom, And then a second nightclub. And then a third. In this episode of the Trustcast Show, Zane Myers speaks with Jasmine Daya — founding principal of Jasmine Daya & Co...

What happens when a boy who spent his first ten years in Soviet Moscow — learning from a very early age which thoughts he could not say out loud, watching his parents stand in winter lines without knowing what was being sold because if there was a long line something worth having must be there, absorbing survival as the organizing principle of daily life — watches his parents risk everything to emigrate, arrives in the United States, discovers speed, becomes a competitive race car driver, goes t...

What happens when a kid from Miami earns his accounting degrees at the University of Florida, goes to the University of Miami for law school and his LL.M. in tax, joins the IRS Office of Chief Counsel, spends twelve years as a government attorney litigating the agency's most complex controversies — the last four as a Special Trial Attorney standing up in United States Tax Court on behalf of the United States, building litigation teams, managing expert witnesses, briefing executives, learning exa...

What happens when a young man whose hardworking grandparents helped finance his education and left a trust fund that set the family up right goes to law school, becomes an Assistant Attorney General for Massachusetts, spends ten years in the courtroom on personal injury and property and insurance cases, hangs his own shingle in 2009, In this episode of the Trustcast Show, Zane Myers speaks with Jonathan White of Jordan & White, LLC — a firm whose lineage traces to 1938, when Sumner Lowe Raymond,...

What happens when a partner at an Ohio law firm who has been a highly specialized workers' compensation attorney for most of her career — her name on the side of the building, corner office, everything she thought she was supposed to want — follows her teenage kids onto TikTok during COVID just to see what is happening, starts making lifestyle videos about juicing and running and fabulous meals, And then her husband crashes his small airplane — the Ford Fiesta of the Sky, they called it — and in...

What happens when a native Iowan who graduates from Simpson College with honors in business management, gets a mentor before he even enters law school who tells him exactly what to practice and which company to go to first, skips private practice entirely and goes directly in-house to a Fortune 500 financial giant where he spends a decade as a senior compliance officer answering to the SEC and FINRA — and then hears that same mentor, now retired, say she thinks he would actually be a better fit ...

What happens when a vocal music education major who spent four years teaching school in Pryor, Oklahoma moves back to her parents' house in Del City to attend the University of Oklahoma College of Law, falls in love with the courtroom and with arguing things about the law, spends the next seventeen years doing insurance bad faith And then that call with her father — who says no big deal, when are you gonna pay me back — forces her to stop beating herself up and start looking at the firm as its o...

What happens when a vocal music education major who spent four years teaching school in Pryor, Oklahoma moves back to her parents' house in Del City to attend the University of Oklahoma College of Law, falls in love with the courtroom and with arguing things about the law, spends the next seventeen years doing insurance bad faith And then that call with her father — who says no big deal, when are you gonna pay me back — forces her to stop beating herself up and start looking at the firm as its o...

What happens when a trial lawyer loses his first jury trial, stands outside that courthouse going through every moment of what just happened, and realizes the problem is not that he lacks knowledge of the law but that nowhere in the entire plaintiff's bar is there a place to actually practice trial mechanics on your feet before the biggest case of your client's life — that every seminar is just someone presenting their greatest wins to a room full of people who take notes and go home still unabl...

What happens when a kid from Austin grows up as best friends with someone who goes on to front one of the biggest indie bands to come out of the city, plays in bands with him all the way through high school and college, gives himself a hard three-year deadline at graduation to land a recording contract or walk away from music entirely, watches the only real offer on the table fail to materialize, says sorry guys and drives off to law school, starts as a temporary law clerk at a Houston personal ...

What happens when a girl who majored in psychology and sociology because she was drawn to children and how family interactions shape everything they become starts her career as a foster care caseworker in New York at twenty years old, watches families without resources pass through a system that will permanently alter their children's lives and thinks she will do this work forever, applies to a master's in social work program, gets guided by someone to take the LSAT instead, spends the next twen...

What happens when a trial lawyer picks up the phone in his living room on a December evening in 2016 and hears a father sobbing on the other end, who has just learned that his twenty-one-year-old daughter was brought to a Utah jail while withdrawing from opioids, began vomiting the same night a guard saw her, spent five days deteriorating without receiving medical care, and died of dehydration in her cell — and the lawyer immediately says yes, formalizes the relationship the next morning, and th...

What happens when a Navy helicopter pilot who spent his early career hauling people out of impossible situations — stroke victims on cruise ships, lost families at sea, a person with a heart attack on a mountainside with nowhere else to turn — decides to go to night school and get his law degree, walks into his first plaintiffs job announcing he wants to be a plane crash lawyer or a maritime disaster attorney, gets force-fed insurance policy after insurance policy every single evening by a boss ...

What happens when a girl who grew up in Atlanta goes to MIT planning to be an architect, takes an office job doing technology transfer to fund her way through school and discovers for the first time what it feels like to sit at the intersection of law and business, builds a career in Boston for fifteen years, takes a detour to live in Madrid and work entirely in Spanish at a European law firm, returns to the United States and joins Nelson Mullins as a specialist, raises her hand for a document m...

What happens when a lawyer who spent nearly twenty years sitting in claims management meetings for the world's largest insurance companies — watching how reserves get set, how excess layers get triggered, how a VP of claims and a room full of supervisors actually decide what a human injury is worth — finally has a friend look him across a table and say, well why don't you just do it, then spent about a year saving enough to give himself an eighteen-month runway, walked away from every institutio...

What happens when a lawyer who spent nearly twenty years sitting in claims management meetings for the world's largest insurance companies — watching how reserves get set, how excess layers get triggered, how a VP of claims and a room full of supervisors actually decide what a human injury is worth — finally has a friend look him across a table and say, well why don't you just do it, then spent about a year saving enough to give himself an eighteen-month runway, walked away from every institutio...

What happens when a kid who grew up watching his father leave before dawn and come home just before dinner, decided there had to be an easier way to make a living, went to college planning to be an English teacher, figured out that wasn't going to work financially, went to law school because what else does a philosophy and English major do, fell completely in love with it, and then found himself carrying a check to create a trial advocacy chair at his law school — and realized on that walk over ...

What happens when the person on the other end of the phone is frantic, emotional, angry, and hurt all at once — because somebody died on their watch — and the attorney they are calling has personally investigated over 400 workplace deaths, refinery explosions, pipeline blasts, and construction collapses, and has learned from every single one of them that the first 24 hours will either protect the company or haunt it for the next two and a half years of litigation? In this episode of the Trustcas...

What happens when an attorney who minored in computer science, started her career in traditional commercial litigation watching founders bleed money in disputes that should never have reached a courtroom, jumped to a legal tech startup where she helped build AI-powered contract review tools, reviewed over 40 legal AI products and kept finding the same problem — brilliant engineers building things that didn't solve the actual problem practitioners face — and then decided to build an AI-first law ...

What happens when a litigator who spent his early years defending Fortune 100 companies in bet-the-company cases — taking the lead on a hundred depositions as a third and fourth year associate, getting pulled into environmental contamination lawsuits stretching from New York to the International Chamber of Commerce in the EU, and building healthcare tech compliance frameworks from first principles before telehealth was even a recognizable category — decides the most interesting thing he can do w...