Ep 207 | Judge Frank Caprio | Caught in Providence Judge Shows Compassion in the Court
The Lawyer Stories Podcast
Benjamin Gold
5.0 • 541 Ratings
🗓️ 6 December 2024
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Summary
The Lawyer Stories Podcast Episode 207 features Judge Frank Caprio, retired judge who served as the chief judge of the municipal court in Providence and chairman of the Rhode Island Board of Governors for Higher Education. Judge Caprio's judicial work is widely known on the television program Caught in Providence, and he has recently released a book titled "Compassion in the Court. Life-Changing Stories from America's Nicest Judge." Judge Caprio shares his story with us beginning with his father working as a fruit peddler and telling him he would be a lawyer one day. Judge Caprio feels privileged to be part of a loving family and it carried over to him serving compassionate justice in his courtroom, making sure the litigants before him departed the courtroom with dignity. It was a pleasure to host Judge Caprio on the Lawyer Stories Podcast.
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| 0:00.0 | You are listening to the Lawyer Stories podcast with host Benny Gold. Lawyer Stories was founded in July 2017 on Instagram and is an expanding global network of lawyers and law students sharing their personal journeys to the noble profession of the practice of law. |
| 0:16.7 | Join us on this podcast as we dig deeper into these stories and hear from lawyers and law students from around the world in all areas of the legal profession. |
| 0:25.7 | Here at lawyer stories, we believe that every lawyer has a story. What's yours? |
| 0:42.9 | Welcome to the Lawyer Stories podcast with Benny Gold. |
| 0:50.7 | Today we welcome in a very special guest that I'm very excited for, a legal legend, which we love. |
| 0:57.7 | Judge Frank Caprio, a retired judge who served as the chief judge of the Municipal Court of Providence, Rhode Island, and chairman of the Rhode Island Board |
| 1:02.7 | of Governors for Higher Education. |
| 1:04.8 | I first saw Judge Caprio appear in my social media feed through his compassionate judicial work televised on the program |
| 1:14.2 | Cotton Providence, now author of Compassion in the Court, which I can't wait to read. |
| 1:20.7 | Wow. |
| 1:21.5 | What an honor, Judge. |
| 1:22.6 | Thank you so much for being here today. |
| 1:25.6 | Great to be here. |
| 1:26.7 | Thank you so much, sir. So a quick fun fact. |
| 1:30.0 | I'm just going to throw this out there. I went to Roger Williams Law in Rhode Island. |
| 1:33.4 | My wife is from East Greenwich, Rhode Island, and I'm now in Central Mass, so I just wanted to, |
| 1:37.9 | this program's about you, but I wanted to throw it out there that I'm not too far away, |
| 1:41.8 | so I did spend some time in Rhode Island. So, Judge, here at Lawyer Stories, we discuss legal professionals and their journeys to the practice of law, |
| 1:51.0 | their challenges, inspirations, and motivations, and sort of like what they're up to now. |
| 1:56.0 | And what a career you've had. |
| 1:59.0 | Can you just tell us where it all began? |
| 2:01.7 | Like your parents were immigrants from Italy and through hard work came over to U.S.? |
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