Our guest this week is Sara Khaki, founding partner at The Atlanta Divorce Law Group. Sara joins us to discuss her journey from social security disability law to her true calling: family law and how she built her firm based on a deep passion for marriage and was named Law Firm 500's Fastest Growing Law Firm in the Country. All this and more on this week’s Opening Statements!

Our guest this week is James Grant founding partner at Georgia Trial Attorneys. James joins us to discuss how he went from an engineering degree from Georgia Tech to becoming an aggressive litigator fighting the greedy insurance companies...could it be the eleventy billion tuition or the professional coaches he’s aligned himself with over the years? All this and more on this week’s Opening Statements!

Our guest this week is John Gracia, an attorney specializing in Death and Estate Planning. John is a graduate of Devry University and a partner at Schulten, Ward, Turner and Weiss. John joins the show to discuss estate law, how applying to the wrong university can change your life, and a super secret BBQ sauce recipe. All that and much more on today's episode of Opening Statements.

This week our guest is Chris Sperry, a founder of the Sperry Law Firm, and a commercial transactions lawyer. Chris joins the show to discuss how his wife convinced him to become an attorney and then how 8 years later he did! He also joins the show to talk about working with restaraunts, and deals that go south with family. All that and much more on today's episode of The Opening Statements Podcast!

This week our guest is Victoria Olson, an associate attorney at Eraclides Gelman who specializes in worker’s compensation and a graduate of Mercer University. Victoria joins the show this week to discuss what it's like being a young lawyer, how she managed to choose between pursuing acting and law, and of course, the dangers of having a forklift at home. All that and much more on this week's episode of the opening statements podcast!

This week our guest is Hannibal Heredia, founding partner of Hedgepeth Heredia, who's practiced family law, almost exclusively, since 1994. Hannibal joins the show this week to discuss his journey to founding partner, his passion for music and the things they don't tell you about running your own practice and how to deal with temp toes! All that and much more on this week's episode of the opening statements podcast!

This week our guest is James Robson, a person injury attorney and founder of Glass and Robson, James has been named as a Georgia Super Lawyer Rising Star every year since 2012 and has been named a top 40 under 40 trial lawyer every year since 2014! James joins the show to discuss brain injury cases, why not getting picked for Jury Duty is very personal, and a story about an exploding building. All that and much more on today's episode of The Opening Statements Podcast!

Our guest this week is Laura Benz of Benz Law Group & Benz Environmental Consulting, an Environmental, Natural Resource and Land Use attorney of 19 years, a Rising Star, Super Lawyer 2016 & 2017 and she obtained all five of the new reservoir permits issued in the State of Georgia in the last ten years. She joins the show to discuss her path to being an attorney, what a wigwam is and to play a game of plead the fifth! All that and much more on today's episode of The Opening Statements Podcast!