My guest today is Diandra Debrosse Zimmermann, also known as Fu. She is the managing partner of DiCello Levitt’s Birmingham office, and Co-Chair of the firm’s Mass Tort division. Fu was born in Brooklyn to immigrant parents of Haitian and Cuban descent. She was raised with many cultural values of the West Indies: self sufficiency, integrity, and taking risks to stand up for the marginalized.

Fu's father was a strict disciplinarian. The most important rule in the house: don't follow the crowd against your own convictions. It was a principle that Fu would apply to her early activism, her legal career, and eventually pass on to her own children.

In this interview we'll talk about how Fu made partner at her first firm at a very young age, then start her own firm as a mother of two just a few years later.

We'll discuss why she considered leaving the practice altogether, and what finally convinced her to join the DiCello Levitt powerhouse.

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My guest today is Mark O’Mara, a former prosecutor best known for defending George Zimmerman, who was found not guilty of second-degree murder in the 2012 shooting death of Trayvon Martin.

Growing up on Long Island, Mark was greatly influenced by his parents’ Irish Catholic roots and his father’s rigorous work ethic. After a friend talked him out of going to community college part-time, he ended up at the University of Central Florida, where student government pushed him toward his lifelong passion of law.

Mark’s early career in prosecution came to an end when he was fired for preventing a mentally disabled 16-year-old from being sent to prison for life. The incident ended up sending Mark down a path of defense work that would bring him great success – and significant controversy.

In this interview we’ll discuss Mark’s journey from Marlboro-smoking paperboy to world-class defense attorney, including his delightfully unusual proposal to his wife, why he’ll often say that a guilty client is “a really good guy", and the complex turmoil surrounding the George Zimmerman trial.

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My guest today is Darryl Isaacs, a personal injury attorney widely known as "The Hammer". Darryl grew up in the Louisville, KY neighborhood of Hikes Point. His father worked six days a week as a pharmacist, and graduated law school in his 40s. Seeing that hard work and dedication inspired Darryl, and he would one day follow in his father's footsteps.

It wasn't easy — Darryl was never the best student, in his own words. But he seemed to have an uncanny knack for making money. Merging that talent with the work ethic he gleaned from his father, Darryl was immediately successful.

In 2015, everything he had built almost came to a sudden and tragic end when he was struck by a car, breaking his neck, scalping his head, and fracturing parts of his back. Doctors believed he may never walk again.

In this episode, we discuss all of these stories, including why Darryl gives his personal cell number out to the public, and how that near-fatal accident resulted in the birth of Mastermind Marketing Groups that are sharing Darryl's wealth of legal marketing knowledge all over the country.

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