
Litigating on Your Own Behalf: How a Ground Breaker Breaks Career Barriers
Is your career stuck in a rut? Hear what it takes to carve a meaningful career in law, as host Michal “Mic” Rogson sits down with Jill Wine-Banks, a history making lawyer who served as the only woman on the Watergate prosecution team and left a trail of shattered glass ceilings throughout her career.
Wine-Banks shares how she built her extraordinary career tackling organized crime, a corrupt president, and led military and state legal teams. She headed the American Bar Association, corporate legal departments, and went on to host influential podcasts, published an autobiography, and serves as a legal consultant and contributor for MSNBC.
Feeling locked in place in your career? Wine-Banks offers motivational insights about taking risks, moving forward, and never settling for the status quo. What do you really want to do, and what’s holding you back?
Throughout her fascinating career, Wine-Banks continually accepted new challenges, broke down barriers, and reinvented herself over and over again.
Resources:
iGen Politics podcast
Just the Facts podcast
Jill Wine-Banks, Wikipedia entry
“The Watergate Girl: My Fight for Truth and Justice Against a Criminal President,” by Jill Wine-Banks
“The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life,” by Erving Goffman, Amazon
“Gideon's Trumpet: How One Man, a Poor Prisoner, Took His Case to the Supreme Court and Changed the Law of the United States,” by Anthony Lewis
Assembly of Captive European Nations, Wikipedia
American Bar Association
American Bar Association Litigation Section
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Information
- Show
- FrequencyUpdated daily
- Published7 October 2025 at 15:00 UTC
- Length54 min
- Season1
- Episode87
- RatingClean