Welcome to Gossip Without Prejudice – the podcast where we profile misconduct across

the legal industry, while also (hopefully) humanizing the profession too!

Join hosts John Socha and Lindsey Costlow each week as they cover the latest in

legal news, gossip and drama – interview novice and veteran practitioners,

examine REAL legal cases and much more!

From authentic discussion about the legal industry and tips on how you can guide

your career – to unbelievable stories of judges, lawyers and other

officers of the court behaving less than optimally.

In this inaugural bonus episode, John and Lindsey are joined by Hemmat Law’s very own

Paige Blake, a 3rd year law student. Together they check out a recent story

featuring the Washington state court systems, explore Paige’s legal journey so

far and examine a case involving a janitor, dancer and a bad set of stairs.

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BONUS PRESEASON RECORDINGS!

From October to December 2024, we sat down and recorded some episodes to get a feel for how this podcasting thing works. They are rough, we get things wrong, but we decided to release them anyway as a thanks to our audience.

Episode Highlights:

0:00 - Introduction

0:33 - Meeting Paige

1:03 - “What brought you to law school?”

2:38 - WA State courts were recently hacked

3:54 - What was affected?

10:45 - More updates and the case for access

13:44 - A new reduction in case loads

15:44 - “More people are taking the bar exam”

17:22 - “Lindsey Takes The Bar” segment

23:32 - Episode wrap-up

CONNECT WITH US

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Lindsey Costlow

John Avi Socha

CONNECT WITH HEMMAT LAW

Website: https://hemmatlaw.com/

Sources:

Seattle Times article

Pierce report

Snohomish PDF on Odyssey

Whitman County article

Benton county district court pdf

Benton website update from 11/5

2013 court hack article

WA courts original facebook post

GWP is a Hemmat Interactive Production.