Ep 211 | Monica Ishak | South Florida Criminal Defense Attorney Believes in Strong & Compassionate Advocacy for Her Clients
The Lawyer Stories Podcast
Benjamin Gold
5.0 • 541 Ratings
🗓️ 2 January 2025
⏱️ 58 minutes
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The Lawyer Stories Podcast Episode 211 features Monica Ishak, Trial Attorney and Owner at the Ishak Law Firm, P.A. in West Palm Beach, Florida, focused on Criminal Defense. We discuss that Monica's parents are from Egypt and that she is a first generation American and South Florida Native. Monica began her career trying cases as a certified legal intern in law school at the Public Defender's Office in Miami. Upon graduating law school, she started as an Assistant Public Defender in Palm Beach County where she tried numerous misdemeanor cases. Monica believes in strong and compassionate advocacy for her clients and tells us to stand your ground. Indeed, Monica tells us that her passion lies in criminal justice reform and ultimately providing quality representation to those she knows she can help. We are grateful to have Monica as a Founding Member of Lawyer Stories Connect!
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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 |
| 0:21.6 | students from around the world in all areas of the legal profession. Here at lawyer stories, |
| 0:26.7 | we believe that every lawyer has a story. What's yours? |
| 0:34.6 | Welcome to the Lawyer Stories podcast with Benny Gold. |
| 0:42.9 | Today we welcome in Monica Isshack, trial attorney and owner at Isshack Law Firm, PA in West Palm Beach, Florida, focused on criminal defense. |
| 0:56.1 | Monica, how are you? |
| 0:57.9 | I'm good. |
| 0:58.6 | Thank you for having me on the show. |
| 1:00.2 | I'm so excited. |
| 1:01.4 | That's so nice. |
| 1:02.5 | It's a pleasure to have you. |
| 1:04.0 | And let me give everybody out there a fun fact and why I love lawyer stories, okay? |
| 1:08.8 | I'm going to open up with this. |
| 1:10.6 | And it does happen sometimes, |
| 1:12.1 | but you first submitted your initial story. We haven't posted your update one. We're going to do that. |
| 1:17.7 | I know you submitted it a little while ago, but your first story, October 15th, 2020. |
| 1:25.1 | Yeah. In the lawyer stories archive. So as of like, you know, it's an over four years, that's like the length of the time somebody goes to like high school or college. |
| 1:33.7 | So like we've been for like a long time and like on the podcast, you know, all these episodes later. |
| 1:41.2 | Um, first of all, thank you for your support. |
| 1:43.0 | Like thank you for being a founding member |
| 1:44.9 | at Lawyer Stories Connect. It means a lot to us. You know, we're going to do whatever we can to |
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