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Welcome to the Lawyer Stories podcast with Benny Gold.

Today we welcome back our friend Bob Simon, co-founder at Justice HQ,

Justice Team, Attorney Share, Justice Team Network, and I believe co-host of LottieGraw that's it man it's fifth year located in uh manhattan beach california though that that lotty gras lineup man it gets me

every year i will get out there but thanks bob thanks for coming on welcome anytime brother Appreciate the time from the West Coast, East Coast. Reminds me some Tupac Biggie shit. But here we are.

Maybe we got like a little bit of like a post there we should do with something like that. Anyway, that's cool, man. It's great to see you. I know you do so much for everybody in this community. And, you know, especially for us,

more specifically, I do want to thank you, like, from lawyer stories. Like, thanks for being, like,

a great support for us, a sponsor with our Miami event, a friend. You know, you're always giving me

ideas. I can contact you and, you know, you're really a go-to person so i we appreciate you speaking on behalf

of lawyer stories and myself um and congrats the steelers i think are off to like a three-on-star

um all right so bob like we've shared your story before on the on lawyer stories but i just want to

i just want to touch on one thing like going back through it.

How did you get from I guess Pittsburgh to Pepperdine?

So I went undergrad in D.C. and then I did my first plane right out to look for law schools because

I saw a brochure of Malibu, California. And I said, that looks pretty good. So I went out here and this looks way better than I could have ever imagined. I'm going to go ahead and do this. Right. You've been here ever since, man, living in Manhattan Beach now. And it's always a place I wanted to be in the life that I always wanted to live. I'm doing it, doing it. That's amazing. So, so like, how is gw by the way did you like living in dc or

was it intense or like yeah i mean i love living in dc it was actually there for a 9-11 i

remember i was working at a law actually as a law clerk and my twin brother was like two floors

up and that was when a o l messenger was there he was like a well messaging me like and i was like

dude come on you're pulling my chain i remember yeah going out on the streets and seeing tanks on K Street.

It was like, oh, it was wild. I love DC, man. I do a lot of consumer advocacy. I do a lot of political

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