Legal Magnolias

Maggie Davis, Sonya Linton, Sara Hofman
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Legal Magnolias is a space for vibrant women in law to have open, honest conversation about life, work, and play. In our first season, we sit down with women attorneys across North Carolina whose practice areas are showing up in the headlines every week — heirs property, environmental law, immigration, LGBTQ+ family law, education, and the courts themselves. These are the lawyers doing the work behind the news, and they bring their full selves to the conversation: the wins, the hard days, the why. Hosted by Maggie Davis and Sonya Linton | Magnolia Legal Law Firm  Produced by Sara Hofman | McNeely Web Design Music by Tim Sheehan | Everyday Knife Fight 

Episodes

  1. 4d ago

    Ep 2 - Immigration is Bigger than the Border

    Most of what's happening in immigration right now isn't showing up in the headlines. In our first full episode, we sit down with two women who've spent decades in the trenches of immigration law: Heather Crews, owner of Sivaraman Immigration Law, and Meghan Deutsch-Blanco, owner of Deutsch-Blanco Law, PLLC — one focused on employment-based work with universities, medical practices, and rural schools, the other on families, humanitarian cases, and citizenship. Together they walk us through the story you're not being told — the Ukrainians whose work permits aren't being renewed, the Venezuelans losing Temporary Protected Status, the surprise $100,000 H-1B fee, and what happens when the people who came here "the right way" wake up to find the rules changed overnight. Get comfortable, take your shoes off, criss-cross applesauce, and let's get into it. Guests Meghan-Deutsch Blanco and Heather Crews counsel individuals and businesses from around the world in immigration law cases. Legal Magnolias is a podcast from Magnolia Legal in Durham, North Carolina — hosted by Sonya Linton and Maggie Davis. Follow the show on LinkedIn and Facebook. Learn more about the firm at magnolialegal.com.  Music by Tim Sheahan | Everyday Knife Fight | Chapel Hill, NC Produced by Sara Hofman @ McNeely Web Design | Raleigh, NC Enjoying the podcast? Please leave us a review — it genuinely helps other women lawyers find us.

    Ep 2 - Immigration is Bigger than the Border

  2. Season 1, Episode 1 Trailer

    Ep 1 - Welcome to Legal Magnolias

    Welcome to Legal Magnolias — a podcast about the women lawyers taking up space, one conversation at a time. In this quick prologue, hosts Sonya Linton (estate planning attorney) and Maggie Davis (real estate attorney) — law partners at Magnolia Legal in Durham, North Carolina — share the origin story of the show. It starts at the North Carolina Association of Women Attorneys dinner, where Dean Nikia Davis lit them on fire with a challenge: stop waiting for permission, and take up the space you've earned. She held up an image of a pregnant Statue of Liberty, knee-deep in the muck and still lifting her flame, and asked the room: what is your flame? That night — plus Sonya's signature "yes, and" — turned into this: a Season One of deeply nerdy (never boring) conversations with feminist legal voices doing exactly what Dean Davis called out. Taking up space. No asking permission. No apologies. So get comfortable, take your shoes off, criss-cross applesauce, and let's get into it. New episodes coming soon. Follow the show wherever you get your podcasts so you don't miss one. Legal Magnolias is a podcast from Magnolia Legal in Durham, North Carolina — hosted by Sonya Linton and Maggie Davis. Follow the show on LinkedIn and Facebook. Learn more about the firm at magnolialegal.com.  Music by Tim Sheahan | Everyday Knife Fight | Chapel Hill, NC Produced by Sara Hofman @ McNeely Web Design | Raleigh, NC Enjoying the podcast? Please leave us a review — it genuinely helps other women lawyers find us.

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About

Legal Magnolias is a space for vibrant women in law to have open, honest conversation about life, work, and play. In our first season, we sit down with women attorneys across North Carolina whose practice areas are showing up in the headlines every week — heirs property, environmental law, immigration, LGBTQ+ family law, education, and the courts themselves. These are the lawyers doing the work behind the news, and they bring their full selves to the conversation: the wins, the hard days, the why. Hosted by Maggie Davis and Sonya Linton | Magnolia Legal Law Firm  Produced by Sara Hofman | McNeely Web Design Music by Tim Sheehan | Everyday Knife Fight 

Information

  • Creator
    Maggie Davis, Sonya Linton, Sara Hofman
  • Years Active
    2026
  • Episodes
    2
  • Rating
    Clean
  • Copyright
    © 2026 Legal Magnolias
  • Show Website
    Legal Magnolias