John Stenson is a litigation attorney with over 16 years of litigation experience. He was previously a partner at a national litigation firm where he headed the securities litigation division and has also served as corporate counsel at one of the largest privately held investment banking firms on the west coast. He began his career as a District Attorney where he prosecuted felony and misdemeanor cases in Illinois state. He now focuses his practice full time on trials and catastrophic injury cases.

Jay Jones is the President and CEO of AlwaysON Pr, INC, a boutique intellectual, entertainment talent and public relations firm with a focus on media exposure, branding, and marketing.  He is a TV industry veteran with decades of leadership in senior management, and show production. He is a proud Syracuse University Newhouse Graduate. Jay Jones has booked thousands of guests in national, regional, local, and international outlets. Jones has been named "Executive Producer of The Year" and has worked with celebrity talk shows hosts such as Steve Harvey, Dr. Phil, Geraldo Rivera, Montell Williams, Tyra Banks, and Russell Simmons. Jay Jones is based in New York City on the Upper West Side.

What would you do if you got a notification from the bank and found out that you had a million dollars? Would you know how to protect it in the best way? What is the first thing you would buy? Gabriel Sepulveda-Sanchez recently spoke about this topic with Paul Vega, who is a settlement consultant, the founder and President of Vega Settlement Group, and a Series 7 and Series 63 licensed financial advisor located in Los Angeles, California.Paul brings to the table over 20 years of expertise in the financial industry and another 8 dealing with plaintiff settlements. He specializes in personal injury, wrongful death, medical malpractice, punitive damages, Medicare set-asides, and employment settlements. Using this experience, Paul designs complete financial portfolios to help his clients properly handle their settlement windfalls, managing long-term goals while assessing for risk tolerance.

On this episode of Beyond the Bar, I invite Ruben Sanchez, Superintendent of the Stockton Rural Cemetery. Ruben has worked in the cemetery business for over 25 years, and has a unique perspective on the subject of death, avoiding conflict after death, and what his customers are seeking when it comes to finding a lawyer to represent them in wrongful death matters.