Laurie Goodman, Author at Trial Lawyers College Success Stories

TLC Podcast Episode 53: TLC Board Member, Maren Chaloupka on Serving the Mentally Ill

TLC Podcast Episode 53: TLC Board Member, Maren Chaloupka on Serving the Mentally Ill

Laurie Goodman 2020-02-12T16:14:35-07:00 January 23, 2020|TLC Podcast|

Episode 53: TLC Board Member, Maren Chaloupka on Serving the Mentally Ill "If being a lawyer is a calling, and I believe it is, being a trial lawyer, then service to those who are in the throes of something that they can't understand is a huge part of that calling." - Maren Chaloupka Maren Chaloupka is a criminal defense and civil plaintiff’s trial lawyer. She has a diverse practice, and she especially enjoys working on civil rights cases, including wrongful conviction cases and cases involving medical and mental health care in jails and prisons. She lives in the small town of Scottsbluff, Nebraska, and serves clients wherever her work takes her. Maren is leading the Cross-Examination Constellation Regional Seminar at the [...]

2019 TLC2 Grad, Jeremy D’Amico Shares his Challenging Case in Connecticut that Lead to a Family Given Justice

2019 TLC2 Grad, Jeremy D’Amico Shares his Challenging Case in Connecticut that Lead to a Family Given Justice

Laurie Goodman 2020-01-03T16:14:46-07:00 January 9, 2020|TLC Blog|

Written and shared by Jeremy D'Amico, TLC2 2019 September Graduate. Jeremy is a licensed trial lawyer in Connecticut and Florida practicing exclusively in the areas of plaintiff's Personal Injury, Medical Malpractice, Product Liability, and Nursing Home Negligence. Dear Warriors, I hope this finds you well. I want to share with you all some details about the journey of my recent $23,050,000 jury verdict out of Connecticut, one of the largest personal injury verdicts in Connecticut's history. The Bus Crash In June of 2015, Gabe, a child with autism, was riding on the school bus home. It was a sunny summer day, the sky dotted with clouds, and the air, crisp. The bus pulled out from the school and two cars [...]

TLC Podcast Episode 52: Trying an Honest Case with TLC Faculty Members, Brooks Cutter & Scott Glovsky

TLC Podcast Episode 52: Trying an Honest Case with TLC Faculty Members, Brooks Cutter & Scott Glovsky

Laurie Goodman 2019-11-07T10:53:26-07:00 November 7, 2019|TLC Podcast|

Episode 52: Trying an Honest Case with Faculty Members Brooks Cutter and Scott Glovsky "Even though my client had such a huge life with several different women and all these different children, he had managed to have a loving relationship with each of them and so for me, that was a lesson to never judge people by their life circumstances. Everybody has greatness in them and people, whoever they are, can be wonderful people and responsible loving parents. That was important for me on a personal level." - Brooks Cutter In this episode, Scott Glovsky, host of the popular podcast, Trial Lawyer Talk and TLC Faculty Member talks with Brooks Cutter, Sacramento Trial Lawyer and TLC Faculty Leader about trying an [...]

San Diego TLC Trial Lawyer, Omid Rejali, Dedicates His Record-Breaking Verdict to the Trial Lawyers College

San Diego TLC Trial Lawyer, Omid Rejali, Dedicates His Record-Breaking Verdict to the Trial Lawyers College

Laurie Goodman 2020-04-21T19:36:44-06:00 October 24, 2019|TLC Blog|

"I have always said and will continue to say that TLC changed my life for the good, forever. I attended my first regional in January 2017 and have attended two subsequent regionals since. I have not had the pleasure of attending the 3-week college but will certainly do so in the near future. This verdict and many more to come are all dedicated to the college. It all came about by nothing other than pure LOVE for my client." - Omid Rejali, TLC Seminar Student Omid Rejali is a TLC student who opened his criminal and civil practice, Rejali Law Firm, in San Diego right after passing the bar in 2014. He attended his first TLC seminar in 2017 [...]

Discover the Story of Your Case Seminar Co-Leaders on the Importance of this TLC Method

Discover the Story of Your Case Seminar Co-Leaders on the Importance of this TLC Method

Laurie Goodman 2019-10-03T14:20:20-06:00 October 3, 2019|TLC Blog|

"To discover the story of your case is the foundation of everything we do and without this skill, we are not going to be as successful as we need to be for our clients. We are going to miss an opportunity to bring justice to them if we don’t know how to discover the story. You can’t really tell the story unless you know it, and facts are not the story. The stories are how people lived those experiences, how they experience those facts and how they lived them that really make the story." - Paco Duarte, TLC Faculty Leader Starting in less than a month is TLC's 2019 Discover the Story of Your Case regional seminar offered in Leavenworth, [...]

TLC Grad and Faculty Member, Tommy Davenport on a Recent Story Inside Angola Prison, Louisiana’s State Penitentiary

TLC Grad and Faculty Member, Tommy Davenport on a Recent Story Inside Angola Prison, Louisiana’s State Penitentiary

Laurie Goodman 2019-09-23T13:37:11-06:00 September 19, 2019|TLC Blog|

On Friday, September 6, Dateline's Lester Holt shared a story on Angola, the Louisiana State Penitentiary. He actually stayed in a cell there for a number of days. It is the largest maximum-security prison in the world. It is still a working plantation. It is surrounded by a river and swampland, with a number of 'unpaid guards'-alligators. I've been at this prison many times and I cry when I leave and am angered by the time I make it home. As far as the eye can see, there are black men working in the fields with guards on horses. Not much different than a scene from 12 Years a Slave. Angola is a complete failure of the human race and [...]

TLC Podcast Episode 51: TLC Faculty Member, Jacqui Ford on Reputation In and Out of the Courtroom

TLC Podcast Episode 51: TLC Faculty Member, Jacqui Ford on Reputation In and Out of the Courtroom

Laurie Goodman 2019-08-29T10:29:54-06:00 August 29, 2019|TLC Podcast|

Episode 51: TLC Faculty Member, Jacqui Ford on Reputation In and Out of the Courtroom "If I want my jurors to be free to open up; if I want them to free themselves of their anxiety so they can come to creative energy, this is where I want my jurors to make decisions. This is very important: people who are making decisions from a place of pain, fear, or anxiety cannot process information the same way they can if they are in an energy of love and support." - Jacqui Ford In this episode, we hear from Oklahoma Trial Lawyer, Jacqui Ford. Jacqui talks about the reputation of trial lawyers and the power of conversation and credibility in and [...]

TLC2 2018 Graduate, David Zagoria Wins Justice After Attending TLC Flagship 3-Week College

TLC2 2018 Graduate, David Zagoria Wins Justice After Attending TLC Flagship 3-Week College

Laurie Goodman 2019-08-14T11:45:25-06:00 August 15, 2019|TLC Blog|

"The jurors were all leaning out of the box and the judge was intently watching as I ran across the courtroom pretending to be the dog that grabbed my client's leg (re-enacting what had happened to him). It was the most influential I have ever felt in a courtroom from re-enacting the actual scene. I can’t wait to do it again." - David Zagoria, 2018 TLC September Graduate David Zagoria is a personal injury attorney from Atlanta, Georgia who attended his first TLC regional in 2016. David had been taught in his early years, that the attorneys' job is to persuade and convince the jury - to basically twist their arms to get them to agree. So, when he attended [...]

TLC Podcast Episode 50: Co-Leaders Mel Orchard & Vicki Slater on Restructure of TLCs Graduate-1

TLC Podcast Episode 50: Co-Leaders Mel Orchard & Vicki Slater on Restructure of TLCs Graduate-1

Laurie Goodman 2019-08-07T09:43:45-06:00 August 6, 2019|TLC Podcast|

Episode 50: Co-Leaders Mel Orchard & Vicki Slater on Restructure of TLCs Graduate-1 "We're trying to empower the students and really all of ourselves as Trial Lawyers to be able to utilize every means available to communicate our clients' cases. That's really the bottom line of it and to make sure we all know ourselves and take care of ourselves so we can be available to help our clients." - Vicki Slater, Grad-1 Co-Leader In this episode, I talk with the co-leaders of the newly structured Graduate-1 program, Mel Orchard & Vicki Slater. I was able to take a backseat to the first-launched program last year and it was really incredible to see how they brought the TLC Graduates out of [...]

TLC Podcast Episode 49: Maryland Grad, Ian Anthony on the Disparity Between Law School and Trial Lawyers College

TLC Podcast Episode 49: Maryland Grad, Ian Anthony on the Disparity Between Law School and Trial Lawyers College

Laurie Goodman 2019-05-18T12:19:13-06:00 May 17, 2019|TLC Podcast|

Episode 49: Maryland Grad, Ian Anthony on the Disparity Between Law School and Trial Lawyers College "When I got to law school, I felt it to be very rigid. There is a system of scoring people, a system for questioning students, and a system for instruction; it felt very boxed-in like law school was gearing you up to be a competitive, book smart, lawyer-robot." - Ian Anthony, 2016 TLC Graduate Ian Anthony is our guest in this episode of the Trial Lawyers College Podcast. In this episode, we talk about how TLC differs from law school and why these differences are so important for trial lawyers. Ian Anthony is a 2016 July Graduate of the Trial Lawyers College and has attended [...]

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