Personal Jurisdiction

Emily Thomas is Senior Counsel at Hyatt Hotels Corporation in Chicago. Prior to her role at Hyatt, Emily was an associate in the real estate group at Katten in Chicago.  Emily is a 2008 graduate of American University and a 2014 graduate of Northwestern Pritzker School of Law. Connect with Emily on LinkedIn. Find us online at https://www.personaljxpod.comOn Twitter @PersonalJxPodAnd on Instagram @PersonalJxPodcastPersonal Jurisdiction is powered and distributed with Simplecast. Our logos were designed by Lizzie L. O'Connor.Personal Jurisdiction is edited by Scott Donnell at Run and Drum Media https://www.runanddrummedia.comOur Theme Song is Pleasant Porridge by Kevin MacLeod.Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/7614-pleasant-porridgeLicense: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license   Thank you to our sponsor, Themis Bar Review! Listen to this episode for a special code to get the lowest price of the year on the February and July 2026 Themis Bar Review Course.Find us online at https://www.personaljxpod.comFind us on LinkedIn on our new page and subscribe to our LinkedIn newsletterFind us on Twitter @PersonalJxPodWe couldn't do this alone! So...Personal Jurisdiction is powered and distributed with Simplecast. We use Riverside.FM to record our episodes. Our episodes are edited by Scott Donnell at Run and Drum Media https://www.runanddrummedia.comOur logos were designed by Lizzie L. O'Connor.Our Theme Song is Pleasant Porridge by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 Licensehttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/Show Less

Suhas Subramanyam is a Delegate of the Virginia House of Delegates. He represents District 87 which comprises Loudon County and Prince William County. He has served Virginia since 2020. Suhas has also acted as counsel for a number of startups.Prior to serving Virginia, he was a Policy Advisor & Special Assistant for Technology for the White House during the Obama Administration. He is a 2008 graduate of Tulane University and a 2013 graduate of Northwestern University Pritzker School of Law. Connect with Suhas on LinkedIn.Connect with Suhas on Twitter.Connect with Suhas on Facebook. Visit Suhas for Virginia.Find us online at https://www.personaljxpod.comOn Twitter @PersonalJxPodAnd on Instagram @PersonalJxPodcastPersonal Jurisdiction is powered and distributed with Simplecast. Our logos were designed by Lizzie L. O'Connor.Personal Jurisdiction is edited by Scott Donnell at Run and Drum Media https://www.runanddrummedia.comOur Theme Song is Pleasant Porridge by Kevin MacLeod.Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/7614-pleasant-porridgeLicense: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license Thank you to our sponsor, Themis Bar Review! Listen to this episode for a special code to get the lowest price of the year on the February and July 2026 Themis Bar Review Course.Find us online at https://www.personaljxpod.comFind us on LinkedIn on our new page and subscribe to our LinkedIn newsletterFind us on Twitter @PersonalJxPodWe couldn't do this alone! So...Personal Jurisdiction is powered and distributed with Simplecast. We use Riverside.FM to record our episodes. Our episodes are edited by Scott Donnell at Run and Drum Media https://www.runanddrummedia.comOur logos were designed by Lizzie L. O'Connor.Our Theme Song is Pleasant Porridge by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 Licensehttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/Show Less

Jonathan Jacobson is a Trial Attorney in the Public Integrity Section at the U.S. Department of Justice in Washington, D.C.Jonathan is a graduate of the University of Illinois (2008) and Northwestern University Pritzker School of Law (2014). Learn more about the Honors Program at the Department of Justice here. Connect with Jonathan on LinkedIn.Find us online at https://www.personaljxpod.comOn Twitter @PersonalJxPodAnd on Instagram @PersonalJxPodcastPersonal Jurisdiction is powered and distributed with Simplecast. Our logos were designed by Lizzie L. O'Connor.Our Theme Song is Pleasant Porridge by Kevin MacLeod.Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/7614-pleasant-porridgeLicense: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license Thank you to our sponsor, Themis Bar Review! Listen to this episode for a special code to get the lowest price of the year on the February and July 2026 Themis Bar Review Course.Find us online at https://www.personaljxpod.comFind us on LinkedIn on our new page and subscribe to our LinkedIn newsletterFind us on Twitter @PersonalJxPodWe couldn't do this alone! So...Personal Jurisdiction is powered and distributed with Simplecast. We use Riverside.FM to record our episodes. Our episodes are edited by Scott Donnell at Run and Drum Media https://www.runanddrummedia.comOur logos were designed by Lizzie L. O'Connor.Our Theme Song is Pleasant Porridge by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 Licensehttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/Show Less

Chloe is Senior Counsel at Longroad Energy. You can find out more about the work Longroad does here. Chloe Rossen is a graduate of Tufts University (2008) and Northwestern University Pritzker School of Law (2014). Connect with Chloe on LinkedIn. Find us online at https://www.personaljxpod.comOn Twitter @PersonalJxPodAnd on Instagram @PersonalJxPodcastPersonal Jurisdiction is powered and distributed with Simplecast. Our logos were designed by Lizzie L. O'Connor.Personal Jurisdiction is edited by Scott Donnell at Run and Drum Media https://www.runanddrummedia.comOur Theme Song is Pleasant Porridge by Kevin MacLeod.Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/7614-pleasant-porridgeLicense: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license  Thank you to our sponsor, Themis Bar Review! Listen to this episode for a special code to get the lowest price of the year on the February and July 2026 Themis Bar Review Course.Find us online at https://www.personaljxpod.comFind us on LinkedIn on our new page and subscribe to our LinkedIn newsletterFind us on Twitter @PersonalJxPodWe couldn't do this alone! So...Personal Jurisdiction is powered and distributed with Simplecast. We use Riverside.FM to record our episodes. Our episodes are edited by Scott Donnell at Run and Drum Media https://www.runanddrummedia.comOur logos were designed by Lizzie L. O'Connor.Our Theme Song is Pleasant Porridge by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 Licensehttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/Show Less

Leah Litman is a Professor of Law at the University of Michigan Law School. She teaches and writes on constitutional law, federal courts, and federal sentencing. Her research examines unidentified and implicit values that are used to structure the legal system, the federal courts, and the legal profession. Leah’s scholarship has appeared in several top law reviews. Her work also appears in popular media, including The New York Times and Slate. Leah is also the co-host of Strict Scrutiny, a popular podcast about the United States Supreme Court and the legal culture that surrounds it. Strict Scrutiny has a different voice–one that celebrates the contributions and opinions of women and people of color. She is the co-creator of Women Also Know Law, a tool to promote the work of women and non-binary academics.  Leah also maintains an active pro bono practice. For example, she was part of the litigation team in Garcia v. United States, one of the successful challenges to the rescission of the DACA program, for which the team was recognized as California Lawyers of the Year. Prior to her position at Michigan Law School, Leah clerked on the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals and on the United States Supreme Court. Following her clerkships, she worked at WilmerHale in D.C. She was a Climenko Fellow and Lecturer on Law at Harvard Law School, and an Assistant Professor at the University of California, Irvine, School of Law.  Leah has won several awards for her teaching--in 2021 Michigan Law students awarded her the L.Hart Wright Teaching Award, and in 2019 she won the Professor of the Year Award while at the UC Irvine School of Law.  Leah is a graduate of Harvard College and the University of Michigan Law School.Follow Leah on Twitter @LeahLitman and @StrictScrutiny_and @WomenKnowLawListen to the Strict Scrutiny Podcast here and learn more about Strict Scrutiny here. Find us online at https://www.personaljxpod.comOn Twitter @PersonalJxPodAnd on Instagram @PersonalJxPodcastPersonal Jurisdiction is powered and distributed with Simplecast. Our logos were designed by Lizzie L. O'Connor.Personal Jurisdiction is edited by Scott Donnell at Run and Drum Media https://www.runanddrummedia.comOur Theme Song is Pleasant Porridge by Kevin MacLeod.Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/7614-pleasant-porridgeLicense: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license     Thank you to our sponsor, Themis Bar Review! Listen to this episode for a special code to get the lowest price of the year on the February and July 2026 Themis Bar Review Course.Find us online at https://www.personaljxpod.comFind us on LinkedIn on our new page and subscribe to our LinkedIn newsletterFind us on Twitter @PersonalJxPodWe couldn't do this alone! So...Personal Jurisdiction is powered and distributed with Simplecast. We use Riverside.FM to record our episodes. Our episodes are edited by Scott Donnell at Run and Drum Media https://www.runanddrummedia.comOur logos were designed by Lizzie L. O'Connor.Our Theme Song is Pleasant Porridge by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 Licensehttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/Show Less

Donya Khadem is a judicial law clerk on the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals. Previously, she was a judicial law clerk on the District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan. She is a graduate of the University of Wisconsin at Madison (2015) and the University of Michigan Law School (2019).Connect with Donya on LinkedIn. Find us online at https://www.personaljxpod.comOn Twitter @PersonalJxPod And on Instagram @PersonalJxPodcastPersonal Jurisdiction is powered and distributed with Simplecast. Our logos were designed by Lizzie L. O'Connor.Personal Jurisdiction is edited by Scott Donnell at Run and Drum Media https://www.runanddrummedia.comOur Theme Song is Pleasant Porridge by Kevin MacLeod.Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/7614-pleasant-porridgeLicense: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license Thank you to our sponsor, Themis Bar Review! Listen to this episode for a special code to get the lowest price of the year on the February and July 2026 Themis Bar Review Course.Find us online at https://www.personaljxpod.comFind us on LinkedIn on our new page and subscribe to our LinkedIn newsletterFind us on Twitter @PersonalJxPodWe couldn't do this alone! So...Personal Jurisdiction is powered and distributed with Simplecast. We use Riverside.FM to record our episodes. Our episodes are edited by Scott Donnell at Run and Drum Media https://www.runanddrummedia.comOur logos were designed by Lizzie L. O'Connor.Our Theme Song is Pleasant Porridge by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 Licensehttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/Show Less

Support the work of Social Change by donating, volunteering your time, and following Social Change on social media to keep updated on the important work they're doing. Visit Social Change online at https://socialchange.siteFollow Social Change on Twitter @CHIsocialchange,  Instagram @CHIsocialchange and Facebook Connect with Todd Belcore on LinkedIn. Learn more about the Equal Justice Works Fellowship that Todd was a part of after law school. As an EJW Fellow, Todd worked at the Sargent Shriver National Center on Poverty Law in Chicago where he focused on litigating, organizing, educating, and crafting legislation to ensure that individuals with criminal records are not unjustly denied employment or occupational licenses.Todd is a graduate of the University of Michigan and Northwestern University School of Law.Todd also makes an impact by mediating disputes and teaching law students how to transform systems to make them equity-centered via a class called "The New Jim Crow" (that he teaches at Northwestern Law and University of Chicago Law School).As a result of Todd's commitment to transforming lives and communities, he has received 23 honors, including the ABA's National Outstanding Young Lawyer of the Year and the White House's Champion of Change Awards. Find us online at https://www.personaljxpod.comOn Twitter @PersonalJxPod And on Instagram @PersonalJxPodcastPersonal Jurisdiction is powered and distributed with Simplecast. Our logos were designed by Lizzie L. O'Connor.Personal Jurisdiction is edited by Scott Donnell at Run and Drum Media https://www.runanddrummedia.comOur Theme Song is Pleasant Porridge by Kevin MacLeod.Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/7614-pleasant-porridgeLicense: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license Thank you to our sponsor, Themis Bar Review! Listen to this episode for a special code to get the lowest price of the year on the February and July 2026 Themis Bar Review Course.Find us online at https://www.personaljxpod.comFind us on LinkedIn on our new page and subscribe to our LinkedIn newsletterFind us on Twitter @PersonalJxPodWe couldn't do this alone! So...Personal Jurisdiction is powered and distributed with Simplecast. We use Riverside.FM to record our episodes. Our episodes are edited by Scott Donnell at Run and Drum Media https://www.runanddrummedia.comOur logos were designed by Lizzie L. O'Connor.Our Theme Song is Pleasant Porridge by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 Licensehttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/Show Less

All opinions in this episode are those of Katherine Leung, personally, and not intended to be attributed to the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB).Katherine Leung is a Field Attorney at the National Labor Relations Board in Washington, D.C. Katherine is a graduate of Wellesley College (2014) and Harvard Law School (2017). Connect with Katherine on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/katherineeleung/ Find us online at https://www.personaljxpod.comOn Twitter @PersonalJxPod And on Instagram @PersonalJxPodcastPersonal Jurisdiction is powered and distributed with Simplecast. Our logos were designed by Lizzie L. O'Connor.Personal Jurisdiction is edited by Scott Donnell at Run and Drum Media https://www.runanddrummedia.comOur Theme Song is Pleasant Porridge by Kevin MacLeod.Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/7614-pleasant-porridgeLicense: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license Thank you to our sponsor, Themis Bar Review! Listen to this episode for a special code to get the lowest price of the year on the February and July 2026 Themis Bar Review Course.Find us online at https://www.personaljxpod.comFind us on LinkedIn on our new page and subscribe to our LinkedIn newsletterFind us on Twitter @PersonalJxPodWe couldn't do this alone! So...Personal Jurisdiction is powered and distributed with Simplecast. We use Riverside.FM to record our episodes. Our episodes are edited by Scott Donnell at Run and Drum Media https://www.runanddrummedia.comOur logos were designed by Lizzie L. O'Connor.Our Theme Song is Pleasant Porridge by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 Licensehttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/Show Less

Get excited for Season 2 by catching up on the great episodes from Season 1. During Season 1, we talked to: 🗳Mayor Sumbul Siddiqui, Esq.,✏️Marquette University Law School Assistant Dean of Students Anna Fodor, 📃ACLU Staff Attorney My Khanh Ngo,👐 Executive Director of Charleston Pro Bono Legal Services Alissa Lietzow💉AbbVie Corporate Brand Counsel Amy Chapple,💼Sidley Austin LLP Pro Bono Bono Counsel, Leslie Kuhn Thayer⚖️Public Defender Courtney Francik, 🇺🇸Former US Attorney Jordan Matthews, 📊 Solo Practitioner and Owner of Law Office of Thomas R. Kayes, LLC, Thomas Kayes, 📚Bookoff McAndrews, PLLC Patent Attorney and DEI Professional Dan Sharpe, and 🐯Princeton University Athletic Director John Mack.Allison Freedman and I even interviewed each other in Epsiode 1!Whether you're a law student or a practicing attorney, there are so many great insights in these episodes. We hope you'll support Personal Jurisdiction by sharing your favorite episode with your friends and colleagues. 📩We'll see you soon for Season 2. In the meantime, drop us a line at personaljxpod(at)gmail.com! We'd love to hear from you! Thank you to our sponsor, Themis Bar Review! Listen to this episode for a special code to get the lowest price of the year on the February and July 2026 Themis Bar Review Course.Find us online at https://www.personaljxpod.comFind us on LinkedIn on our new page and subscribe to our LinkedIn newsletterFind us on Twitter @PersonalJxPodWe couldn't do this alone! So...Personal Jurisdiction is powered and distributed with Simplecast. We use Riverside.FM to record our episodes. Our episodes are edited by Scott Donnell at Run and Drum Media https://www.runanddrummedia.comOur logos were designed by Lizzie L. O'Connor.Our Theme Song is Pleasant Porridge by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 Licensehttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/Show Less

John Mack is a graduate of Princeton University (2000) and Northwestern Pritzker School of Law (2012). John is the Director of Athletics at Princeton University. Learn more about John here: https://alumni.princeton.edu/stories/john-mack-princeton-athletic-director Connect with John on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/john-mack-7b66194  Thank you to our sponsor, Themis Bar Review! Listen to this episode for a special code to get the lowest price of the year on the February and July 2026 Themis Bar Review Course.Find us online at https://www.personaljxpod.comFind us on LinkedIn on our new page and subscribe to our LinkedIn newsletterFind us on Twitter @PersonalJxPodWe couldn't do this alone! So...Personal Jurisdiction is powered and distributed with Simplecast. We use Riverside.FM to record our episodes. Our episodes are edited by Scott Donnell at Run and Drum Media https://www.runanddrummedia.comOur logos were designed by Lizzie L. O'Connor.Our Theme Song is Pleasant Porridge by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 Licensehttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/Show Less