Welcome to Gossip Without Prejudice – the podcast where we profile misconduct across the legal industry, while also (hopefully) humanizing the profession too!

Join hosts John Socha and Lindsey Costlow each week as they cover the latest in legal news, gossip and drama – interview novice and veteran practitioners, examine REAL legal cases and much more!

From authentic discussion about the legal industry and tips on how you can guide your career – to unbelievable stories of judges, lawyers and other officers of the court behaving less than optimally.

In this inaugural bonus episode, John and Lindsey are joined by Hemmat Law’s very own Paige Blake, a 3rd year law student. Together they check out a recent story featuring the Washington state court systems, explore Paige’s legal journey so far and examine a case involving a janitor, dancer and a bad set of stairs.

BONUS PRESEASON RECORDINGS!

From October to December 2024, we sat down and recorded some episodes to get a feel for how this podcasting thing works. They are rough, we get things wrong, but we decided to release them anyway as a thanks to our audience.

Episode Highlights:

• 0:00 - Introduction
• 0:33 - Meeting Paige
• 1:03 - “What brought you to law school?”
• 2:38 - WA State courts were recently hacked
• 3:54 - What was affected?
• 10:45 - More updates and the case for access
• 13:44 - A new reduction in case loads
• 15:44 - “More people are taking the bar exam”
• 17:22 - “Lindsey Takes The Bar” segment
• 23:32 - Episode wrap-up

CONNECT WITH US

LinkedIn:

Lindsey Costlow

John Avi Socha

Sources

Seattle Times article

Pierce report

Snohomish PDF on Odyssey

Whitman County article

Benton county district court pdf

Benton website update from 11/5

2013 court hack article

WA courts original facebook post

GWP is a Hemmat Interactive Production.