Sticky Lawyers
Sticky Lawyers
John Reed
Sticky Lawyers Looks Back: The Niche Pioneers
48 minutes Posted Dec 11, 2025 at 9:00 pm.
Bob Mionske: Creating the bicycle attorney category and protecting cyclists' rights.
David Concannon: Organizing Titanic expeditions and navigating intellectual property in exploration law.
Haydee Dijkstal: Prosecuting war crimes and crimes against humanity at international tribunals.
John Schwartz: Practicing farm law while actually farming the land.
Lance Johnson: Building a practice around Amazon marketplace sellers and e-commerce law.
Laura Montgomery: Establishing herself in commercial space law before it became mainstream.
Michael Hall: Handling legal issues for paranormal investigators and haunted real estate.
Forrest Merithew: Living the outdoor recreation lifestyle while serving the industry.
John Szymankiewicz: Branding himself as "the beer attorney" for craft brewers and distillers.
Zachary Strebeck: Protecting video game developers with insider industry knowledge.
Caitlin DiMotta: Representing graphic novelists and visual storytellers.
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Send us Fan Mail What makes a lawyer irreplaceable? It's not credentials or years of experience. It's not how much money you make or the size of your firm. What makes you irreplaceable is being the answer to a specific question. When someone has a particular legal problem, there's only one name they think of. Yours. In this special compilation episode, John Reed celebrates the niche pioneers—Sticky Lawyers who saw unserved markets or entirely new legal questions and said, "I'm gon...