Episodes

What happens when a lawyer who opened his first office in a small Arkansas town with a bounced check and a toddler quacking down his hallway with door stops in his mouth grows his firm into the largest wage and hour practice in the country, co-founds a firm with a YouTuber who has 3.9 million subscribers, builds a legal referral software platform used by five of the ten largest plaintiff firms in the country, and then launches a class action firm that files one lawsuit per calendar day? In this ...

What happens when a late-diagnosed neurodivergent adult and childhood trauma survivor who spent years consulting for Dell and the Discovery Channel decides to build the world's first podcast network entirely focused on mental health — and then spends the next decade interviewing every expert on the planet, mostly to figure out what was going on with herself? In this episode of the Trustcast Show, Zane Myers speaks with Kristin Walker, founder of the Mental Health News Radio Network, about what i...

What happens when a PhD philosopher who spent four years in the ether of academic concepts decides the abstract world isn't enough — and ends up defending people accused of murder in Albuquerque, New Mexico, with an in-house therapist as his business partner? In this episode of the Trustcast Show, Zane Myers speaks with Maxwell Pines, founder of Max Pines Law, about the journey from a Brown University dissertation on how humans understand their own actions to 86-plus trials and 10 homicide cases...

What happens when a basketball coach and history teacher who wanted to represent the indigent gets blocked from the public defender's office by a Supreme Court rule, takes a job at Borders on Michigan Avenue, and ends up co-chairing the Chicago office of an AmLaw 200 firm — defending insurance companies, fighting reptile theory, and predicting court outcomes on a podcast with 300-plus episodes? In this episode of the Trustcast Show, Zane Myers speaks with Pat Eckler, co-chair of the Chicago offi...

What happens when a trial attorney who argued a case before the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, made partner at a nationally recognized firm, and spent 20 years fighting to win for one side decides to become the person in the room that neither side hired? In this episode of the Trustcast Show, Zane Myers speaks with Amy Mariani, founder of Mariani Mediation, about the unexpected path from trial law to full-time mediator and arbitrator, why she says resolution is the real client, and how...

What happens when a young associate trained by the Dean of Chicago Defense Attorneys — the man who represented R. Kelly and Rod Blagojevich — decides to bet on himself and launch his own federal criminal defense firm? In this episode of the Trustcast Show, Zane Myers speaks with Vadim Glozman, founder of Glozman Law in Chicago, about the full acquittal he won for R. Kelly's former business partner Darryl McDavid on every count after five weeks of federal trial, why he almost never fights the fac...

What happens when a patent attorney who got his wake-up call staring at a 47-page office action at 3 a.m. decides to teach himself Python, machine learning, and blockchain development — and then builds a proprietary AI called Abigail to handle the 70% of his work that delivered zero value to clients? In this episode of the Trustcast Show, Zane Myers speaks with Roger Hahn, founder of Haunan Associates in Washington DC, about what it actually means to run a next-generation patent law firm, how he...

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 divorce system is fundamentally broken, why most people wait far too long to get help, and what it a...

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 Trustcast Show, Zane Myers speaks with Nick Passalacqua, founder of Passalacqua & Associates in Utica, New...

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 Patterson, founder of Patterson Law Firm in Chicago, about the Revelaze v. Dentons case, how a smal...

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 divorce-only family law firm, about his extraordinary journey from small-town Wisconsin to the Michael...

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 she uncovered in her own past cases, and the life sentence she's been fighting to overturn for a man ...

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 Ryan Gregerson, founding partner of RCG Law Group in South Jordan, Utah, about the philosophy, purpo...

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 and author of Through the Impossible, about the July morning in 2019 when his wife Liz was diagnosed ...

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 Gabriel S. Perez Law in El Paso, Texas, about his journey from collegiate cross country runner to Supreme...

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, including a billion-dollar product liability case and a successful J&J talcum powder mesothelioma def...

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 in Birmingham, Alabama, about five decades of plaintiff's trial work, the $64 million bingo casino f...

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 defense and personal injury career, the attempted murder case he took from a life felony down to a se...

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 Ohio State law grad to felony prosecutor to homesteading rancher to solo practice attorney defending...

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, about the niche world of workers' compensation subrogation — recovering millions of dollars that insur...

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 medical director at Agnomi Sleep, about the science of sleep, why 80% of Americans with moderate to seve...

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 cryptocurrency and art collections in divorce, and holds Supreme Court certification that only 2% of New Jerse...

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 a startup that argues the best use of his courtroom skills is making sure clients never see one. Af...

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 completed all Seven Summits to honor his dad's 20-year military service. Now 48 years old, he's an in...