As you’ll hear on this episode of the podcast, attorney David Hodge has really benefitted from his humble roots working throughout his childhood into his college years on his father’s farm. Interestingly enough, his farm background has greatly benefited his clients with a number of plaintiff’s cases he has brought just because of what he knows and has seen in his past work on the farm! David is a partner with the esteemed firm of Morris, King and Hodge, located in Huntsville, Alabama. You can listen to the podcasts I have done with his law partners, Harvey Morris here and Joe King here. David is a very-well respected attorney in Alabama as reflected by the fact that he is consistently named as a top 50 lawyer in the State of Alabama by Superlawyers. I have known David over the years but I never really understood his back story until this episode of the podcast. I think you’ll enjoy hearing about his roots and how he has achieved the level of success that he now has with his legal career.
David Holt is a founding partner of Loftin Holt, a law firm he started with Bartley Loftin. You can hear Bartley’s episode of the Next Lawyer Up podcast here. David is a highly respected lawyer who gives back to many organizations in our community. He is past president of the Madison County Volunteer Lawyers Program and the President-Elect of the Huntsville Bar Association. David has a technical pedigree with both a Bachelor’s degree and a Master’s Degree in Chemical Engineering from the University of Alabama. He is also a graduate of University of Alabama’s School of Law as well. David practices in complex litigation, in addition to all aspects of intellectual property. This podcast is an interesting story of how David and Bartley left “big law” to build their own law firm which is highly respected in the North Alabama legal community. I hope you enjoy hearing David’s story on this episode.
If you watch CNN at all, you have undoubtedly seen attorney Elie Honig, CNN Senior Legal Analyst, especially over the past several months. Elie always comes off very knowledgeable about any legal matter that he is asked about and he has an easy going and affable manner about him that allows him to help explain complicated and nuanced legal situations quickly and in an understandable way. Elie, as you’ll hear, has an impressive pedigree to include Rutgers University and Harvard Law School, followed by work as an assistant US attorney with the well-known office of the Southern Distrct of New York (SDNY) in Manhattan. That position was followed by several years working as an assistant Attorney General with the New Jersey Division of Criminal Justice. Currently, he is a special counsel at Lowenstein Sandler. In addition to the work he does for CNN, Elie teaches at Rutgers and serves as the executive director of the Rutgers Institute for Secure Communities. He has authored two books, here and here, and he hosts two podcasts as well, here and here. Elie has carved out an interesting career path for himself and I enjoyed talking with him on this episode. I hope you enjoy it!