Personal Jurisdiction

Hallie Ritzu, Allison Freedman
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When you look up “Personal Jurisdiction” in Black’s Law Dictionary, it directs you to the entry for “Jurisdiction.” We won’t do that to you. We’re here because there’s not enough good information available for law students and new attorneys to make informed choices about their careers. Join co-hosts Allison Freedman and Hallie Ritzu as we talk to a variety of people within the first 10ish years of practice to hear about their journeys to fulfilling careers and the advice they have for getting there. From government to start-ups; politics to academia; in-house to legal aid—we’ll get the scoop on what it’s really like to work in different areas of the law, so you can chart your own course for success.

  1. #85: Let's Get Personal with Diana Tafur, Human Rights Advocate and Senior Technical Advisor at International Rescue Committee

    DEC 9

    #85: Let's Get Personal with Diana Tafur, Human Rights Advocate and Senior Technical Advisor at International Rescue Committee

    Diana Tafur is a Senior Technical Advisor at the International Rescue Committee. She is based in Colorado Springs, Colorado. Prior to this role, Diana was a Supervising Attorney at the Refugee and Immigrant Center for Education and Legal Services (RAICES) in San Antonio, Texas. Diana also served as a Supervising Attorney at the National Immigrant Justice Center in Chicago and a Legal Advocate at Kids in Need of Defense in Washington, D.C. Diana is a 2011 graduate of the American University Washington College of Law in Washington DC and a 2008 graduate of Florida State University. Get new episodes by email by subscribing to our Substack!  Thank you to our sponsor, Themis Bar Review!  Listen to this episode for a special code to get the lowest price of the year on the February and July 2026 Themis Bar Review Course. Find us online at https://www.personaljxpod.com Find us on LinkedIn on our new page and subscribe to our LinkedIn newsletter Find us on Twitter @PersonalJxPod We couldn't do this alone! So... Personal Jurisdiction is powered and distributed with Simplecast.  We use Riverside.FM to record our episodes.  Our episodes are edited by Scott Donnell at Run and Drum Media https://www.runanddrummedia.com Our new logo/branding was designed by Ellie Mejia, a graphic designer and illustrator located in Chicago, Illinois. Check out Ellie's work here.  Our previous logos were designed by Lizzie L. O'Connor. Our Theme Song is Pleasant Porridge by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 Licensehttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ Show Less

    1h 14m
  2. Let's Get Personal with Clare Diegel, Director of the Professional Standards Division at the Hennepin County Attorney's Office

    NOV 4

    Let's Get Personal with Clare Diegel, Director of the Professional Standards Division at the Hennepin County Attorney's Office

    Clare Diegel is the Director of the Professional Standards Division at the Hennepin County Attorney’s Office in Minnesota. Prior to this role, Clare was a staff attorney at the ACLU of Minnesota, and a public defender in both Minnesota and Seattle. Clare also clerked at both the federal district and circuit court levels, first in the Central District of Illinois and later on the Ninth Circuit. Between her two clerkships, Clare worked at Kirkland & Ellis in Chicago.  Clare is a graduate of the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and the Northwestern University Pritzker School of Law, where she earned both her JD and an LLM in International Human Rights.  Get new episodes by email by subscribing to our Substack!  Thank you to our sponsor, Themis Bar Review!  Listen to this episode for a special code to get the lowest price of the year on the February and July 2026 Themis Bar Review Course. Find us online at https://www.personaljxpod.com Find us on LinkedIn on our new page and subscribe to our LinkedIn newsletter Find us on Twitter @PersonalJxPod We couldn't do this alone! So... Personal Jurisdiction is powered and distributed with Simplecast.  We use Riverside.FM to record our episodes.  Our episodes are edited by Scott Donnell at Run and Drum Media https://www.runanddrummedia.com Our new logo/branding was designed by Ellie Mejia, a graphic designer and illustrator located in Chicago, Illinois. Check out Ellie's work here.  Our previous logos were designed by Lizzie L. O'Connor. Our Theme Song is Pleasant Porridge by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 Licensehttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ Show Less

    1h 16m
  3. Let's Get Personal with Tamany Vinson Bentz, IP Attorney and Founder of California IP Law

    OCT 7

    Let's Get Personal with Tamany Vinson Bentz, IP Attorney and Founder of California IP Law

    Tamany Vinson Bentz is the founding partner of California IP Law, a boutique law firm in Manhattan Beach, California dedicated to helping small and growing businesses establish and protect their intellectual property. Tamany helps clients navigate the landscape of technology and media, focusing her efforts on intellectual property matters, including copyrights, patents, trade secrets, and trademarks, as well as false advertising issues. Tamany also founded Pour Tous Skincare - a skincare line designed to be simple, inclusive, and effective - especially for teens and young adults navigating the ever-changing needs of their skin. Pour Tous Skincare was recently named one of the best gifts for teen girls by Forbes.  Before starting California IP Law, Tamany was an associate and partner at Venable and a partner at DLA Piper both in Los Angeles. Tamany clerked for the Honorable Sue L. Robinson on the U.S. District Court for the District of Delaware. She is a graduate of Arizona State, the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, and the University of Pennsylvania School of Law.    Get new episodes by email by subscribing to our Substack!  Thank you to our sponsor, Themis Bar Review!  Listen to this episode for a special code to get the lowest price of the year on the February and July 2026 Themis Bar Review Course. Find us online at https://www.personaljxpod.com Find us on LinkedIn on our new page and subscribe to our LinkedIn newsletter Find us on Twitter @PersonalJxPod We couldn't do this alone! So... Personal Jurisdiction is powered and distributed with Simplecast.  We use Riverside.FM to record our episodes.  Our episodes are edited by Scott Donnell at Run and Drum Media https://www.runanddrummedia.com Our new logo/branding was designed by Ellie Mejia, a graphic designer and illustrator located in Chicago, Illinois. Check out Ellie's work here.  Our previous logos were designed by Lizzie L. O'Connor. Our Theme Song is Pleasant Porridge by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 Licensehttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ Show Less

    1h 3m
  4. Let's Get Personal with Eleventh Circuit Judge Kevin Newsom & Law Clerk Karissa Kang

    SEP 2

    Let's Get Personal with Eleventh Circuit Judge Kevin Newsom & Law Clerk Karissa Kang

    The Honorable Kevin Newsom is a graduate of Samford University and Harvard Law School. After law school, he clerked for Judge O’Scannlain on the Ninth Circuit, and went on to clerk for United States Supreme Court Justice David Souter. Between and after his clerkships, Judge Newsom worked at Covington & Burling in Washington, D.C. In 2003, he was appointed the State of Alabama’s Solicitor General. And in 2007 he returned to private practice, this time in Birmingham Alabama, until 2017, when he was appointed to the Eleventh Circuit.  Among other things, Judge Newsom is known for his exceptional legal writing, concurring with his own opinions, and promoting a fun and welcoming yet rigorous chambers environment.  Karissa Kang is a 2024 Yale Law School graduate, and is now clerking for Judge Newsom on the Eleventh Circuit. During law school, Karissa was the Editor-In-Chief of the Yale Law & Policy Review. She also spent her summers working at Susman Godfrey in Houston, Texas; Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz in New York City; and the New York State Attorney General’s Office in their Antitrust Bureau.  Special shout out to John Kang, Karissa’s father, and Allison's colleague at the University of New Mexico School of Law, who is always a fantastic supporter of Personal Jurisdiction, and who connected us to Karissa and thereby Judge Newsom. Get new episodes by email by subscribing to our Substack!  Thank you to our sponsor, Themis Bar Review!  Listen to this episode for a special code to get the lowest price of the year on the February and July 2026 Themis Bar Review Course. Find us online at https://www.personaljxpod.com Find us on LinkedIn on our new page and subscribe to our LinkedIn newsletter Find us on Twitter @PersonalJxPod We couldn't do this alone! So... Personal Jurisdiction is powered and distributed with Simplecast.  We use Riverside.FM to record our episodes.  Our episodes are edited by Scott Donnell at Run and Drum Media https://www.runanddrummedia.com Our new logo/branding was designed by Ellie Mejia, a graphic designer and illustrator located in Chicago, Illinois. Check out Ellie's work here.  Our previous logos were designed by Lizzie L. O'Connor. Our Theme Song is Pleasant Porridge by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 Licensehttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ Show Less

    1h 9m
  5. Let's Get Personal with Tom Peabody, Assistant U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Illinois

    AUG 5

    Let's Get Personal with Tom Peabody, Assistant U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Illinois

    Tom Peabody is an Assistant U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Illinois. Prior to becoming an AUSA, Tom worked at Katten in Chicago, and clerked for the Honorable Amy St. Eve first at the district court level in the Northern District of Illinois and later on the Seventh Circuit.  Tom is a graduate of Washington University School of Law, in St. Louis, and DePaul University in Chicago.  *All views expressed in this episode are those of Tom Peabody, not of the U.S. Attorney's Office or the Department of Justice. Get new episodes by email by subscribing to our Substack!  Thank you to our sponsor, Themis Bar Review!  Listen to this episode for a special code to get the lowest price of the year on the February and July 2026 Themis Bar Review Course. Find us online at https://www.personaljxpod.com Find us on LinkedIn on our new page and subscribe to our LinkedIn newsletter Find us on Twitter @PersonalJxPod We couldn't do this alone! So... Personal Jurisdiction is powered and distributed with Simplecast.  We use Riverside.FM to record our episodes.  Our episodes are edited by Scott Donnell at Run and Drum Media https://www.runanddrummedia.com Our new logo/branding was designed by Ellie Mejia, a graphic designer and illustrator located in Chicago, Illinois. Check out Ellie's work here.  Our previous logos were designed by Lizzie L. O'Connor. Our Theme Song is Pleasant Porridge by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 Licensehttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ Show Less

    47 min
  6. Let's Get Personal with Christina Otero Geeza, Partner at Otero Geeza Law P.A.

    JUL 1

    Let's Get Personal with Christina Otero Geeza, Partner at Otero Geeza Law P.A.

    Christina Otero Geeza is a partner at Otero Geeza Law in Miami, Florida. She has a broad corporate practice with a concentration on various types of lending transactions and real estate matters, as well as trust and estate matters. Prior to moving back home to Miami, Christina worked at Katten Muchin Rosenman in Chicago in the commercial finance department, where her practice focused on representing senior secured lenders, second lien lenders, mezzanine lenders, and borrowers in asset-based lending.  Prior to her legal career, Christina worked as an analyst in Institutional Equity Sales at Goldman Sachs, and as an associate in Private Wealth Management at J.P. Morgan Chase.  Christina is a graduate of Princeton University, where was a member of the women’s crew team for four years, and a graduate of the Northwestern University Pritzker School of Law’s Accelerated JD Program.  Get new episodes by email by subscribing to our Substack!  Thank you to our sponsor, Themis Bar Review!  Listen to this episode for a special code to get the lowest price of the year on the February and July 2026 Themis Bar Review Course. Find us online at https://www.personaljxpod.com Find us on LinkedIn on our new page and subscribe to our LinkedIn newsletter Find us on Twitter @PersonalJxPod We couldn't do this alone! So... Personal Jurisdiction is powered and distributed with Simplecast.  We use Riverside.FM to record our episodes.  Our episodes are edited by Scott Donnell at Run and Drum Media https://www.runanddrummedia.com Our new logo/branding was designed by Ellie Mejia, a graphic designer and illustrator located in Chicago, Illinois. Check out Ellie's work here.  Our previous logos were designed by Lizzie L. O'Connor. Our Theme Song is Pleasant Porridge by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 Licensehttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ Show Less

    1h 5m
  7. Let's Get Personal with Zac Byer, Director of Litigation and Intellectual Property at Activision Blizzard

    JUN 3

    Let's Get Personal with Zac Byer, Director of Litigation and Intellectual Property at Activision Blizzard

    Zac Byer is the Director of Litigation and Intellectual Property at Activision Blizzard. Prior to going in-house, Zac worked at Kirkland & Ellis in both Washington, D.C. and California, where he started as an associate and later made partner. He has also worked at King & Spalding in their Los Angeles Office, and he clerked on the Sixth Circuit for the Honorable Deborah L. Cook.   Zac is a 2010 graduate from the University of Pennsylvania, and a 2014 graduate from the University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School. Get new episodes by email by subscribing to our Substack!  Thank you to our sponsor, Themis Bar Review!  Listen to this episode for a special code to get the lowest price of the year on the February and July 2026 Themis Bar Review Course. Find us online at https://www.personaljxpod.com Find us on LinkedIn on our new page and subscribe to our LinkedIn newsletter Find us on Twitter @PersonalJxPod We couldn't do this alone! So... Personal Jurisdiction is powered and distributed with Simplecast.  We use Riverside.FM to record our episodes.  Our episodes are edited by Scott Donnell at Run and Drum Media https://www.runanddrummedia.com Our new logo/branding was designed by Ellie Mejia, a graphic designer and illustrator located in Chicago, Illinois. Check out Ellie's work here.  Our previous logos were designed by Lizzie L. O'Connor. Our Theme Song is Pleasant Porridge by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 Licensehttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ Show Less

    1h 1m
  8. #78: Let's Get Personal about Preparing for the Bar Exam with Rebecca Petrilli from Themis Bar Review

    MAY 6

    #78: Let's Get Personal about Preparing for the Bar Exam with Rebecca Petrilli from Themis Bar Review

    Is the July 2025 bar exam already stressing you out? Are you thinking about adding another jurisdiction to your practice? If you're taking the bar exam, this episode is for you! We chat with Rebecca Petrilli, the bar exam expert from Themis Bar Review, about the top 5 tips for bar exam study, common roadblocks in studying, how to personalize your bar exam studying to work best for you, strategies for the final week before the exam, and exam day advice. Get new episodes by email by subscribing to our Substack!  Thank you to our sponsor, Themis Bar Review!  Listen to this episode for a special code to get the lowest price of the year on the February and July 2026 Themis Bar Review Course. Find us online at https://www.personaljxpod.com Find us on LinkedIn on our new page and subscribe to our LinkedIn newsletter Find us on Twitter @PersonalJxPod We couldn't do this alone! So... Personal Jurisdiction is powered and distributed with Simplecast.  We use Riverside.FM to record our episodes.  Our episodes are edited by Scott Donnell at Run and Drum Media https://www.runanddrummedia.com Our new logo/branding was designed by Ellie Mejia, a graphic designer and illustrator located in Chicago, Illinois. Check out Ellie's work here.  Our previous logos were designed by Lizzie L. O'Connor. Our Theme Song is Pleasant Porridge by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ Show Less

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When you look up “Personal Jurisdiction” in Black’s Law Dictionary, it directs you to the entry for “Jurisdiction.” We won’t do that to you. We’re here because there’s not enough good information available for law students and new attorneys to make informed choices about their careers. Join co-hosts Allison Freedman and Hallie Ritzu as we talk to a variety of people within the first 10ish years of practice to hear about their journeys to fulfilling careers and the advice they have for getting there. From government to start-ups; politics to academia; in-house to legal aid—we’ll get the scoop on what it’s really like to work in different areas of the law, so you can chart your own course for success.

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  • Creator
    Hallie Ritzu, Allison Freedman
  • Years Active
    2021 - 2025
  • Episodes
    87
  • Rating
    Clean
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    © 2025 Personal Jurisdiction Podcast
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