Craig Stanland is a member of our White Collar Support Group that meets on Zoom on Monday evenings. On Monday, June 19, 2023 we will hold our 365th weekly meeting. _________________________ I wanted it to be done. I don’t know what done actually meant, I just knew I wanted it, and I wanted it more than…
Staff writer, Evan Osnos, for the New Yorker Magazine described my guest Jeff Grant this way, “Jeff Grant is the real deal; he’s candid and generous with his wisdom. I can’t imagine there is a lawyer in the country more qualified to consider the complex issues facing people prosecuted for white collar crimes and their…
We are a community of individuals, families and groups with white collar justice issues who have a desire to take responsibility for our actions and the wreckage we caused, make amends, and move forward in new way of life centered on hope, care, kindness, compassion, tolerance and empathy. Our experience shows us that many of…
Bill Livolsi is a member of our White Collar Support Group that meets on Zoom on Monday evenings, and is Deputy Director of our ministry. _________________________ I can’t say that there has been any one particular Aha Moment in my journey. Instead I think it’s best explained as many small lessons learned over the course…
We are honored to have Elizabeth Kelley as the January speaker in our White Collar Support Group Tuesday Speaker Series. Link to register: https://zoom.us/meeting/register/tJckd-mhqT4rG9dQ4J28SDgASUBLtoRvI1fY Elizabeth Kelley is a criminal defense lawyer based in Spokane, Washington, with a nationwide practice specializing in representing people with mental disabilities. She is the editor of four books published by…
We are honored to have Mike Kimelman as the December speaker in our White Collar Support Group Tuesday Speaker Series. Link to register: https://zoom.us/meeting/register/tJYscuysqDguG9FOdRmSmaUjMiVKLELR9WWm Mike Kimelman is a bestselling author, entrepreneur, and expert on disruptive innovation. Formerly an M&A lawyer and the founder of a New York-based hedge fund, he currently is a co-founder at…
Hiring a defense attorney is a monumental task, and most are monumentally unprepared for the effort. _________________________ By Jeff Grant, Reprinted from entrepreneur.com, Sept. 7. 2021 Hiring a white-collar defense lawyer is a monumental task — and one that most entrepreneurs and businesspeople, even those who are sophisticated legal consumers, are monumentally unprepared to do.…
Bob Simels is a member of our White Collar Support Group that meets on Zoom on Monday evenings. Here’s an interesting tidbit, Bob was actually my first boss when I graduated law school – I was his law clerk until I received my law license. He was Henry Hill’s criminal defense attorney, who Ray Liotta…
Fred Aaron is a member of our White Collar Support Group that meets on Zoom on Monday evenings. _________________________ Huge thanks to our friends at Interrogating Justice for permission to reprint and link. The Unexpected Impact of Dobbs on Criminal Justice: Part I, by Fred Aaron A legal precedent is something that has the force…
John Dimenna is a member of our White Collar Support Group that meets on Zoom on Monday evenings. ________________________ INTRODUCTION You can survive prison, you can recover from prison, but prison never leaves you. I lived among one hundred other inmates. More wilderness than community. There is nothing more solitary than living among the exiled.…