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Episode 185 - Next Lawyer Up with Ron Sykstus featuring Maurice Scott
Submitted by the Bond & Botes Law Offices - Monday, February 23, 2026
Attorney Maurice Scott is the founder of United Legal Team, a consumer law firm located in Huntsville, Alabama. Maurice handles consumer law claims for financial justice. As part of his consumer practice, Maurice focuses on helping consumers under the Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA), which is the federal law that controls everything that can or cannot be on an individual’s credit report or background check.
Episode 184 - Next Lawyer Up with Ron Sykstus featuring Chip Schwartz
Submitted by the Bond & Botes Law Offices - Tuesday, February 10, 2026
Attorney Chip Schwartz is a co-founder of Zarzaur and Schwartz, a well-known and highly regarded law firm based in Birmingham, Alabama. The primary focus for Chip and his law firm is debt collection in several states to include Alabama, and he has been doing this work for almost fifty years.
Episode 183 - Next Lawyer Up with Ron Sykstus featuring Nathan Hill
Submitted by the Bond & Botes Law Offices - Wednesday, January 14, 2026
Attorney Nathan Hill is a lawyer practicing with the highly respected Huntsville law firm of Lanier Ford. In fact, I have previously done podcasts with Lanier Ford lawyers Andy Sieja, Laura Harper, Alabama State Senator Sam Givhan and Robert Bailey, a retired lawyer and now full time author.
Episode 182 - Next Lawyer Up with Ron Sykstus featuring Ken Riemer
Submitted by the Bond & Botes Law Offices - Tuesday, January 6, 2026
Attorney Ken Riemer is a South Alabama native who is an exceptional consumer lawyer. He is located in Mobile, Alabama. Ken started his law career in environmental law and then, after working in "big law" for a number of years, decided to open his own law firm.
Episode 181 - Next Lawyer Up with Ron Sykstus featuring Luke Carlson
Submitted by the Bond & Botes Law Offices - Tuesday, December 16, 2025
Attorney Luke Carlson is the managing partner of LS Carlson Law, PC with offices located in California and Florida. Luke’s firm handles business law, real estate matters, and estate planning. In addition to these practice areas , Luke and his firm are subject matter experts in the field of HOA law.
Episode 180 - Next Lawyer Up with Ron Sykstus featuring Chris Weston
Submitted by the Bond & Botes Law Offices - Monday, December 8, 2025
Attorney Chris Weston is the managing partner of the long-established and well-respected law firm of Johnston, Moore and Weston in Huntsville, Alabama. As you’ll hear on this episode of the podcast, Chris was a nomad of sorts growing up, moving every three years or so.
Episode 179 - Next Lawyer Up with Ron Sykstus featuring Retired U.S. Immigration Judge Richard (Rico) Bartolomei
Submitted by the Bond & Botes Law Offices - Tuesday, November 18, 2025
Rico has been a very close friend of mine who I have known since we were young U.S. Army JAG First Lieutenants at Fort Bliss, Texas. Beyond that, Rico introduced me to my wife of 36 years, Patty, as we all lived in the same apartment complex on the west side of El Paso. As I always describe to people, Rico is the closest individual to being a “Renaissance man” that I have ever met. Everything that he does, he does great!
Episode 178 - Next Lawyer Up with Ron Sykstus featuring Madison County, AL Circuit Court Judge (Ret) Karen Hall
Submitted by the Bond & Botes Law Offices - Thursday, November 13, 2025
Judge Karen Hall was the longest-serving judge in Madison County, Alabama history, when combined with her time on the bench as a District Court Judge followed by her long tenure as a Circuit Court judge, until her recent retirement. And when I say retired, I mean just retired as in this podcast was done on her first day off after working for a lifetime! Judge Hall was instrumental in starting and then continuing the long tradition of judges in Madison County who are smart, compassionate, and considerate of both lawyers and litigants in their courtrooms, which is just the type of judge anyone wants deciding his or her case.
Episode 177 - Next Lawyer Up with Ron Sykstus featuring Heath Brooks
Submitted by the Bond & Botes Law Offices - Monday, November 10, 2025
Heath Brooks is a highly respected personal injury attorney with the Huntsville law firm of Timberlake, League and Brooks. You can also listen to previous podcast episodes with Heath’s law partners Michael Timberlake here, Will League here and William Messervy here. In addition, this law firm sponsors the popular LawCall show on WAAY/ABC 31 on Sunday nights at 10:30pm. As you’ll hear, Heath has been working at this same law firm for almost two decades, following a fortuitous concert featuring the Drive By Truckers.
Episode 176 - Next Lawyer Up with Ron Sykstus featuring Jack Duncan
Submitted by the Bond & Botes Law Offices - Tuesday, October 14, 2025
Attorney Jack Duncan is an exceptional creditors rights lawyer who is highly respected throughout the state of Alabama. Jack is a partner at the large regional firm of McCalla Raymer. As an aside, here is a previous podcast I did with another McCalla partner, Mike McComick.
