Episode 175 - Next Lawyer Up with Ron Sykstus featuring Tim Semelroth
Submitted by the Bond & Botes Law Offices - Monday, September 8, 2025
As I learned on this episode of the podcast, Attorney Tim Semelroth is an Iowa boy through and through! We talked a lot about wrestling because, if you grow up in Iowa, wrestling is pretty much in your blood. Tim has an interesting career arc and an impressive pedigree. He runs one of the largest personal injury practices in the state of Iowa.
Episode 174 - Next Lawyer Up with Ron Sykstus featuring Ralph Hornsby, Jr.
Submitted by the Bond & Botes Law Offices - Monday, August 25, 2025
Ralph Hornsby, Jr., is a highly respected attorney who has been practicing law in North Alabama for a long time. He comes from great stock and he has an impressive pedigree!
Episode 173 - Next Lawyer Up with Ron Sykstus featuring Brian White
Submitted by the Bond & Botes Law Offices - Monday, August 11, 2025
Attorney Brian White is a highly respected attorney located in Decatur, Alabama where he has been practicing law for many years. I have known Brian by reputation, but this is my first opportunity to get to speak with him. He works throughout North Alabama and concentrates his practice especially in the counties of Morgan, Lawrence, Limestone and Cullman.
Episode 172 - Next Lawyer Up with Ron Sykstus featuring Lieutenant General (LTG Ret) Stuart Risch, 41st U.S. Army Judge Advocate General
Submitted by the Bond & Botes Law Offices - Wednesday, July 9, 2025
I have known LTG (Ret) Stuart Risch since we were both first lieutenants in the U.S. Army JAG Corps. We met as students in the 116th JAG Basic Course at the Army's law school in Charlottesville, Virginia. It is an understatement to say that Stu has had a spectacular career with his 40 years of uniformed service with the U.S. Army -- 36 of which were on active duty, while another 4 were spent in the U.S. Army Reserve as a Field Artillery officer -- rising to the pinnacle of the Army’s military law leadership as The Judge Advocate General.
Episode 171 - Next Lawyer Up with Ron Sykstus featuring Rho Thomas
Submitted by the Bond & Botes Law Offices - Thursday, June 26, 2025
Attorney Rho Thomas has an impressive pedigree which led her into practicing “big law” with a large law firm in Georgia after she received her law degree. After an introspective search by her and her husband, a practicing doctor, following the birth of their first child, the pair dove into learning about money and transformed their personal finances, paying off a significant amount of student loan debt. Later, Rho completely morphed and changed her career into helping lawyers deal with their finances and get out of debt just like she and her husband were able to do.
Episode 170 - Next Lawyer Up with Ron Sykstus featuring Darren Wurz
Submitted by the Bond & Botes Law Offices - Thursday, May 8, 2025
Darren Wurz is a certified financial planner with a master’s degree in financial planning. He specializes in financial planning for lawyers and law firm owners. Darren is the author of the book, “The Lawyer Millionaire: The Complete Guide for Attorneys on Maximizing Wealth, Minimizing Taxes and Retiring with Confidence published by the American Bar Association.
Episode 169 - Next Lawyer Up with Ron Sykstus featuring Adrienne Hines
Submitted by the Bond & Botes Law Offices - Monday, April 28, 2025
If not for my wife Patty’s love of all things Tik Tok, I would not have run across attorney Adrienne Hines. Adrienne is a long-standing attorney in Ohio who practiced initially in the area of worker’s compensation and now works pretty exclusively in the area of consumer bankruptcy. More than that, Adrienne has morphed her law practice into providing important and detailed information on bankruptcy through her social media platforms on Tik Tok and Instagram.
Episode 168 - Next Lawyer Up with Ron Sykstus featuring Robin Wolfe
Submitted by the Bond & Botes Law Offices - Wednesday, April 16, 2025
Robin Wolfe is a long-standing and highly regarded criminal defense attorney located in Huntsville, Alabama. Robin has had a singular focus of practice in the area of criminal law since early in her career. Robin handles every type of criminal case imaginable to include capital murder and death penalty cases. She is fortunate to have a highly skilled investigator working with her, Jackie, who also happens to be her husband!
Episode 167 - Next Lawyer Up with Ron Sykstus featuring Kenya Rothstein
Submitted by the Bond & Botes Law Offices - Friday, April 4, 2025
Kenya Rothstein is an environmental attorney barred in California and Washington, D.C. I recently learned about Kenya from an article in the January/February 2025 edition of the Washington Lawyer magazine which gets distributed to all DC bar members.
Episode 166 - Next Lawyer Up with Ron Sykstus featuring Charles Brinkley
Submitted by the Bond & Botes Law Offices - Friday, March 28, 2025
Attorney Charles Brinkley comes from the long line of highly respected "Brinkley" attorneys in North Alabama, to include Allen Brinkley, John Brinkley and Becca Brinkley.

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