Episodes

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...

What happens when a PhD student studying eyewitness identification under groundbreaking research that would eventually inspire the Innocence Project decides that the most important unanswered question in the legal system is not whether the truth happened but whether a jury will actually find it — and then spends the next 45 years building a science around that question, helping attorneys win and settle thousands of cases worth billions of dollars, learning how to fly a plane in a simulator to un...

What happens when a PhD student studying eyewitness identification under groundbreaking research that would eventually inspire the Innocence Project decides that the most important unanswered question in the legal system is not whether the truth happened but whether a jury will actually find it — and then spends the next 45 years building a science around that question, helping attorneys win and settle thousands of cases worth billions of dollars, learning how to fly a plane in a simulator to un...

What happens when a son of an NYPD homicide detective who worked on Capitol Hill and always felt pulled toward public service goes to law school specifically to be a prosecutor, picks up and moves right around the corner from Yankee Stadium to be in the thick of it in the Bronx DA's office, spends five and a half years trying violent felonies — felony assaults, robberies, burglaries, attempted murders — then spends nearly a decade defending New York State as an Assistant Attorney General in Whit...

What happens when someone who built one of the country's first home inspection companies in the 1980s, flipped over 70 real estate deals, spent nine years in boot camp under a mentor with a photographic memory who taught him everything from tax planning to financial structuring, sold his first firm to a private equity fund in 2014, and now co-leads a practice with $840 million under advisement decides that the most important thing he can do with four decades of knowledge is make sure business ow...

What happens when an Army brat who moved every three years, played soccer for the Black Knights at West Point, met her husband while they were both JAG attorneys at Guantanamo Bay, clerked for a Virginia Court of Appeals judge, and then built a practice that sits at the exact intersection of personal injury trial work and appellate law — where being a better trial attorney makes you a better appellate attorney and being a better appellate attorney makes you a better trial attorney? In this episo...

What happens when an attorney who failed the bar exam by one point, appealed the result, won, and liked to say her first client was herself — then spent four years managing over a hundred active files at a workers' compensation and motor vehicle accident firm before the pivot that her father still occasionally questions — discovers that she can have more impact on injured people's lives by helping the attorneys who represent them understand what AI can actually do than she ever could trying case...

What happens when an attorney who failed the bar exam by one point, appealed the result, won, and liked to say her first client was herself — then spent four years managing over a hundred active files at a workers' compensation and motor vehicle accident firm before the pivot that her father still occasionally questions — discovers that she can have more impact on injured people's lives by helping the attorneys who represent them understand what AI can actually do than she ever could trying case...

What happens when a girl who grew up in poverty in Indiana, watched her grandfather walk into a rehab facility after his second stroke and get wheeled out in a wheelchair with a bag of clothes soaked in urine and feces because they kept passing him by at meals while he dozed in his room, becomes the first person in her family to attend graduate school, spends years as a prosecutor in South Florida learning how to try cases before she ever touches civil work, and then builds her own Milwaukee fir...

What happens when an ER physician who fled Iran during the revolution as a child, survived Scud missiles and bombings across multiple cities, made it through medical school in Belize, delivered babies as the only doctor in a 25-mile radius in a tiny Minnesota town called Olivia, switched into emergency medicine, and spent years getting lectured by his billing partners about every critical care encounter he was under-documenting — finally picks up a Python programming hobby he had since high scho...

What happens when a young female attorney who worked as a paralegal before law school, spent time on the defense side, and then crossed to the plaintiff's side realizes that the women calling her from Wall Street banks and hedge funds are not just victims of harassment but are trapped in situations where the very person controlling their promotions, their performance reviews, and their entire career trajectory is the same person who assaulted them — and that the most powerful tools she has are n...

What happens when a young attorney who started his career as a guardian ad litem — the volunteer voice for children placed in the system with no one fighting for them — takes $25,000 of his own money, teams up with his business partner Victor, opens a personal injury firm three months before a global pandemic, outgrows his first office by mid-year, moves into 10,000 square feet by October, and builds a staff of 75 people across South Florida, Tampa, and Chicago while also opening six restaurants...

What happens when a seventh grader buries a time capsule in 1993 saying he wants to play football as long as his body allows, join the army, and become an attorney — and then 25 years later his teacher digs it up and sends him a note saying he did exactly that — after commanding troops in combat as a field artillery officer in Iraq, redesigning a cavalry troop from scratch, deploying to Europe, writing the military criminal jurisdiction playbook for the entire European theater at V Corps, and th...

What happens when a serial entrepreneur who wore a suit to elementary school at age eight, built a successful software company, invested his time and network into an early stage idea before anyone else believed in it, and then walked away from his own exit to go all in on a platform built around one simple but radical premise — that the most powerful thing you can do for someone who is struggling is connect them with another human being who has already been through exactly the same thing and com...

What happens when an employment attorney who spent years defending some of the biggest employers in the country at the world's largest employment law firm finally sits in a trial he genuinely doesn't believe in, realizes he can't keep doing it, and crosses to the other side — where he gets to choose his own cases, fight for the workers those companies were trying to defeat, and never charges a client a single dollar until a check lands in his firm's mailbox? In this episode of the Trustcast Show...

What happens when a law student who worked almost full time through law school clerks in the Baltimore City homicide division, gets to know the real people behind the characters in The Wire, learns what it actually takes to build a murder case from the inside, then spends five years on the prosecution side before crossing to the defense table — where 12 years and 30 jury trials later he still gets coolest when everyone else in the room is in full panic mode? In this episode of the Trustcast Show...

What happens when a girl who grew up watching her single mom choose between $2 of gas and a loaf of bread in the Chicago suburbs goes to law school in Miami without knowing a single person to network with, takes the first job she can get at a small boutique in Woodstock, Illinois, discovers a passion for fighting for parents and children in the moments that matter most, and 22 years later leads a six-attorney firm that offers discounts to single moms and military members, serves as a guardian ad...

What happens when a kid from the Arizona-Mexico border who grew up throwing rocks from his grandmother's backyard into Mexico, drops out of Stanford Law to follow armed Minutemen through the Sonoran Desert with a video camera, comes back, finishes his degree, and builds one of Phoenix's most feared immigration and criminal defense firms — one with 1,200 Google reviews, 50 people on staff, a worksite raid defense that became local counsel on the federal civil rights lawsuit that took Joe Arpaio d...

What happens when a trial attorney spends 13 years inside the SEC building the exact kinds of cases that keep executives and general counsels up at night — including the securities fraud case against Volkswagen and its CEO for deceiving US bond investors during the emissions scandal, a case that earned him a framed picture of a carrion hawk from his colleagues after Judge Charles Breyer's opening remarks — and then crosses to the other side of the table to defend the companies and individuals th...

In this episode of the Trustcast Show, host Zane Myers sits down with Adam Wasserman, Managing Partner of Education Justice Law Group and co founder of ExamSoft, the bar exam software used in almost every state. Adam’s story is remarkable. After being told he would never ride a bicycle, play a musical instrument, or graduate high school due to ADHD, dyslexia, and major learning challenges, he spent childhood labeled lazy and not capable. Today, he is a special education attorney who personally a...

What happens when a pediatric ICU nurse who spent years in high-stakes home health settings — training nurses on ventilator troubleshooting, running competency assessments for tracheostomy patients, and then investigating unexpected deaths and abuse allegations as a healthcare administrator — decides that the place she can do the most good is not inside a healthcare company but inside a courtroom, helping attorneys understand what the records are actually telling them and what the records they d...

What happens when a licensed marriage and family therapist who grew up in Los Angeles watching pastors, doctors, nurses, and high achievers give everything they had to the people around them while quietly neglecting themselves decides that the most important thing she can do is teach people how to refill before they run completely dry — and then extends that same mission to third graders who are still young enough to build those habits before they ever need to unlearn the bad ones? In this episo...

What happens when a psychiatric social worker who spent 12 years inside the mental health system before going to law school teams up with a former Philadelphia DA prosecutor who took 60 jury trials to verdict, got nominated to the Chester County bench by two separate governors, and sat in every division of the Court of Common Pleas — and they both end up at one of the oldest law firms in Pennsylvania doing what they each love most? In this episode of the Trustcast Show, Zane Myers speaks with Jo...

What happens when a British kid who grew up watching his father build businesses from nothing comes to America for college, stumbles into a trial courtroom as a law school intern and knows within five minutes that's where he belongs, spends five years trying 200 jury trials including capital murder cases for Palm Beach County, walks away burned out, loses himself for a decade trying desperately not to be a lawyer, loses his father 11 months into a new practice, watches a family member get Baker ...