Episode 159 - Next Lawyer Podcast with Ron Sykstus featuring Richard Jaffe
Submitted by the Bond & Botes Law Offices - Thursday, January 2, 2025

It is not a stretch to say that attorney Richard Jaffe is at the top of the legal profession in the state of Alabama. I say this somewhat objectively, given the fact that he has been consistently named as a top 50 lawyer in the State of Alabama for well over a decade by Super Lawyers, and Best Lawyers has listed him Lawyer of the Year for Birmingham in either White -collar criminal law or criminal defense 4 times in recent years.
Episode 158 - Next Lawyer Podcast with Ron Sykstus featuring Reed Allmand
Submitted by the Bond & Botes Law Offices - Thursday, December 12, 2024

Attorney Reed Allmand runs one of the largest consumer bankruptcy law firms in Texas, Allmand Law. Reed is highly respected nationwide in this practice area. I know him as a colleague with the American Consumer Bankruptcy College.
Episode 157 - Next Lawyer Podcast with Ron Sykstus featuring Michelle Cross
Submitted by the Bond & Botes Law Offices - Tuesday, November 19, 2024

Attorney Michelle Cross is the founder of Atlanta’s Law Firm. While she hasn’t been practicing law very long, Michelle has already established herself in Atlanta, Georgia as an excellent criminal defense lawyer.
Episode 156 - Next Lawyer Up with Ron Sykstus featuring Erik Clark
Submitted by the Bond & Botes Law Offices - Wednesday, November 13, 2024

Attorney Erik Clark is a highly respected consumer bankruptcy attorney based in California. He, and his longtime law partner, Barry Borowitz, run the law firm of Borowitz and Clark.
Episode 155 - Next Lawyer Up with Ron Sykstus featuring Bruce Wolf
Submitted by the Bond & Botes Law Offices - Thursday, November 7, 2024

I first learned about attorney Bruce Wolf through WLUP, the preeminent Chicago radio station back in the day. WLUP was very important to a lot of us growing up in the Chicago area when we did and there is a great new book out about this radio station.
Episode 154 - Next Lawyer Up with Ron Sykstus featuring Martin Conway
Submitted by the Bond & Botes Law Offices - Monday, October 21, 2024

Attorney Martin Conway, founder of Conway Legal, is a highly respected consumer bankruptcy lawyer who practices law throughout Virgina. I first got to know Martin as a colleague with the American Consumer Bankruptcy College (ACBC).
Episode 153 - Next Lawyer Up with Ron Sykstus featuring Kevin Gregg
Submitted by the Bond & Botes Law Offices - Monday, October 7, 2024

If you are a lawyer who practices in the area of immigration law, then you undoubtedly know the name of attorney Kevin A. Gregg. Kevin is a partner with the law firm of Kurzban, Kurzban Tetzeli & Pratt and he practices immigration law nationwide.
Episode 152 - Next Lawyer Up with Ron Sykstus featuring Mark Zuckerberg
Submitted by the Bond & Botes Law Offices - Friday, September 20, 2024

There are two Mark Zuckerberg’s in the country and this podcast features the one who is a bankruptcy lawyer practicing in Indianapolis, Indiana. You can imagine how often the name confusion comes up for Mark over the last several years!
Episode 151 - Next Lawyer Up with Ron Sykstus featuring Sam Givhan
Submitted by the Bond & Botes Law Offices - Thursday, August 29, 2024

Attorney Sam Givhan is very well known in Huntsville and, really, throughout the state of Alabama. A highly respected attorney, Sam is currently a law partner at Lanier Ford which is based in Huntsville.
Episode 150 - Next Lawyer Up with Ron Sykstus featuring Philip "Flip" May
Submitted by the Bond & Botes Law Offices - Tuesday, August 20, 2024

This 150th episode of the Next Lawyer Up podcast is quite personal to me.
As I readily tell people, I was an 18-year-old first generation (and somewhat aimless!) college student who ventured from Chicago to the University of Arizona. There, very quickly, I fell in with Sigma Chi fraternity and pledged immediately.