Ready for Trial with Dana McLendon
Ready for Trial with Dana McLendon
Dana C. McLendon III
Dana McLendon has been a lawyer based in Franklin, Tennessee since 1993. He's handled cases from Mountain City to Memphis. Dana has tried cases involving murders, drug dealers, dead cats, nasty divorces, you name it. In this podcast, Dana is giving you insight into how the practice of law really works. It’s not at all like what you see on television or in the movies. His guests are lawyers, judges, cops, prosecutors, public defenders, private investigators, court reporters, and the clients, the people who never wanted to be in a courthouse in the first place. The conversations are not just about law, but about life. Reach Dana at 615-310-3195 or [email protected]
Ready for Trial with Dana McLendon - Episode 19: Brittany Barnett
Brittany Barnett is a lawyer who left a lucrative private practice in corporate law to fight for justice. In this episode, she tells how her own family experience guided her and how she ultimately knew the job she always wanted was not the job she needed.
Sep 21, 2020
54 min
Ready for Trial with Dana McLendon - Episode 18: Abby Rubenfeld
Abby Rubenfeld is a legend. She's been on the front line for equal rights for decades. In this episode, we discuss how Abby "got her quill" and how the fight for equal rights for women is far from over.
Sep 14, 2020
1 hr 19 min
Ready for Trial with Dana McLendon - Episode 17: Josh Windham
Josh Windham is a lawyer with the Institute for Justice. Josh is currently the lead counsel for a case involving the Tennessee Wildlife Resources Agency ("TWRA") and the TWRA's practice of entering private property without a warrant, and without permission from or notice to the landowner for the purpose of surveilling the landowner and their guests.
Sep 7, 2020
1 hr 14 min
Ready for Trial with Dana McLendon - Episode 16: Kevin Sharp (Part 2 of 2)
Kevin Sharp is a lawyer in Nashville who resigned as a federal judge to work on criminal justice reform. In this episode, we take a deep dive into the strange and terrible tragedy that is the story of Leonard Peltier.
Aug 31, 2020
1 hr 51 min
Ready for Trial with Dana McLendon - Episode 15: Kevin Sharp (part 1 of 2)
Judge Sharp is the Managing Partner of Sanford Heisler Sharp’s Nashville office, which opened in the spring of 2017. He joined Sanford Heisler Sharp after serving as a judge on the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Tennessee from May 2011 through April 2017, serving from 2014 to 2017 as the Court’s Chief Judge.
Aug 24, 2020
39 min
Ready for Trial with Dana McLendon - Episode 14: Tony Turnbow
Tony Turnbow is a lawyer practicing in Franklin, Tennessee. He is the author of "Hardened to Hickory," the story of Andrew Jackson's first experience as a military commander. In this episode, we discuss Meriwether Lewis, Andrew Jackson, Aaron Burr, and other important persons from history.
Aug 17, 2020
1 hr 12 min
Ready for Trial with Dana McLendon - Episode 13: Joe Baugh
Joe Baugh is a lawyer in Franklin, Tennessee. He began practicing in the mid-1970s and served as the District Attorney for sixteen years before returning to private practice. In this episode we discuss the way it was when he began and how things have changed since.
Aug 10, 2020
51 min
Ready for Trial with Dana McLendon - Episode 12: Robbie Beal
Robbie Beal is a former public defender, prosecutor, juvenile referee, Circuit Court Judge, and Chancellor and is now a lawyer in private practice with a significant practice as a mediator in family law cases. In this episode, we cover all of that and more.
Aug 3, 2020
58 min
Ready for Trial with Dana McLendon - Episode 11: Cat Moon
Caitlin Moon is a professor at Vanderbilt Law School in Nashville, Tennessee. Cat teaches primarily in the areas of technology and innovation in the practice of law. In this episode, we tackle how the law students of today are learning not only new technology to bring to the practice of law, but altogether new paradigms of client relationships and monetizing a law license. We also discuss the current dilemma that new law school graduates are facing as fifty states wrestle with the bar exam in the era of COVID-19.
Jul 27, 2020
1 hr 31 min
Ready for Trial with Dana McLendon - Episode 10: Kendall White
Kendall White is a lawyer practicing primarily in criminal defense throughout Middle Tennessee. In this episode, we talk about difficult clients, the erosion of your right against unreasonable search and seizure, and one thing you should never, ever do when interacting with the police.
Jul 20, 2020
1 hr 13 min
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