Welcome back. I'm so excited to bring you a very special episode of the Emily show today with my guest James Egan

Gwyneth Paltrow's attorney. Before I tell you more about that, a huge thank you to green chef. In honor of Earth Month, green chef is offering new limited time only recipes may

with sustainable Earth friendly ingredients all April long get 60% off plus free shipping with code Emily Baker 60 at green chef.com slash Emily Baker 60 today's episode is a conversation with James Egan.

We talk about the case a little bit. We talk about his music. We talk about his journey into his field of practice now and get to know him a bit better.

If you want to know how James Egan used to get out of his piano lessons, you're going to have to listen to this interview. I hope you enjoy it. Longers and thank you to all of the members. It submitted questions for James. I got a lot of them in and asked a lot about the topics, including what he thought of being called Clark Kent. So thank you for joining me for today's episode. I can't wait to know what you think in the comments.

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Longers. Today we have a rare interview. You know I don't do them very often, but I had to ask for an interview with the one the only James Egan who is joining me today to talk about all things life and loss. So a huge welcome to the podcast James. I know you haven't done a ton of interviews since this trial. Probably because you jump immediately back into work. How's that been?

I had that is true. It was, you know, as usual with a trial, you sort of put everything out the side and you focus on one case and then all the other cases just, you know, build up in your office and when you get back, they're all there to fight you again.

Yes. We also know that you have a little one too. So you would mention that you have, I believe, a one year old. So not only does kind of life get put on hold at work, but with family too. It's trying to get back into it and catch up. And at that age, they grow really fast. And so after two weeks of trial, it's like, I just need some time at home with my family.

Yeah, no, that was very needed. And his birth, they happened right in the middle of trial. And so it was, and he also started walking. He had just started walking just before trial just a little bit. But, you know, obviously, we're learned a few more steps. And I wanted to get home to see that. And it was really nice to just, you know, have a take a couple of days off on that weekend and just be with family.

In fact, I have his, this is where we change his diapers in case you don't just just approve that I've done it.

It's hard at that age because it does change so fast. And when you're working a lot when my kids were young, I was in trial quite a lot. And I was in trial while pregnant with both of my kids. And it is such a different dream when you're also

kids and kids up at night. And then you're in trial in the next day. And you don't sleep a lot when you're in trial anyway. And then you have the added pressure, of course, of knowing that the world is watching, but also that your family could watch this trial, because it's live streaming. I think that would make me more nervous, maybe knowing that my family.

But people that know me are watching more than the rest of the internet. What you're watching trial.

Yeah, I, you know, I don't know that they, everything, but yes, they, they watched and it was unlike other trials, like we got to actually kind of talk about it afterwards, which made it, you know, interesting. They definitely were interested in law and, you know, why, why did this happen and why did that happen? And maybe, you know, they were more interested.

Then when I tried to tell them about other trials, like there's this interesting thing that happened and I'm, you know, going on and they probably don't care. But anyway, so that was kind of fun to share that with them. Yeah.

No, I know exactly what you mean, because there were times when I was in trial, we, before we moved out of Southern California, we would go over to dinner every week at my parents house with the kids. And if I would start to talk about the trial, I was in and I'm like, no, actually, it's really fascinating that he was eyes gloss over it. I'm like, no, I swear it's actually interesting.

I swear it's really interesting. And then the judge did this and then defense counsel did that. And cases are unpredictable. But again, trying to get someone else to buy in can be a little bit difficult. And normally you go through those experiences, often by yourself or maybe with a co counsel and nobody else. And this time you actually could look around and be like, no, did you see that? Right. Right.

We're doing today. Yeah.

Did you have family members come to court for this case as well?

Yeah. Yeah. Just towards the end, my, my mom came for closing and then my, my wife was there one, one that day too. I think and the day before maybe it's all kind of a blur, honestly.

By the time you get to closing argument, yeah, it often is because my parents before I left the district attorney's office, my parents were like, oh, we'll come watch a trial. But, you know, you're often downtown and we have to drive all the way downtown. And then by the time I ended up leaving after having some health issues, my parents were like, we never got to see you in trial. I'm like, I kept telling you when I was in trial. Like this is what I do all day.

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