🕒 Timestamp 0:07 Punam shares co-host of WiseUp TX empowering people to vote (nonpartisan manner) 3:30 Avoiding identity politics 5:30 Hate crime & attitude against South Asians 7:07 How Punam became interested in politics 8:20 Engaging in political process & getting others involved 12:05 New Year's resolution to everyone - check who your elected official is 13:40 useful and practical ways to keep an elected official accountable 16:15 Why it is important to keep updated with legal chang...
Feb 09, 2021•39 min•Season 2Ep. 18
⚡️QUESTION - Which state surprised you with their voter turnout? #PresidentialElection #Trump #Biden #2020Election #VoterSuppression In this episode, John Ting shares 4 key points including the count total of the key states as of 11 am Friday November 6, 2020. Please leave a 5 star rating. ❤️ Share this video with your friends: https://youtu.be/ivUC5_TPwuw Connect with me! 📩 Sign up to receive weekly emails with free content from me. http://eepurl.com/hariqT ✅ Follow us on https://www.instagram...
Nov 07, 2020•4 min•Season 1Ep. 17
⚡️QUESTION - Which state surprised you that flipped to other party? In this episode, I share the vote comparison from earlier in the morning and the different scenarios to 270 for both candidates. Within 24 hours, VP Biden nabbed a few key states, but there are still more to wait on. Meanwhile, Trump campaign filed several lawsuits to block votes. ❤️ Please leave a 5 star review. ❤️ Share this video with your friends: https://youtu.be/cfJKhQkBty0 Connect with me! 📩 Sign up to receive weekly ema...
Nov 05, 2020•7 min•Season 1Ep. 16
⚡️QUESTION - Did you vote by mail and which state? I review which battleground states are still not called and what it will take for VP Biden to win. Please eave a 5 star review. We appreciate it! 📩 Sign up to receive weekly emails with free content from me. http://eepurl.com/hariqT ✅ Follow us on https://www.instagram.com/lawyerupmedia/ Disclaimer: The information provided here is not legal advice and does not purport to be a substitute for advice of counsel on any specific matter. For legal a...
Nov 04, 2020•6 min•Season 1Ep. 16
⚡️QUESTION - Did you vote by mail? In this episode, you will hear the rationale of Justices Gorsuch, Roberts, and Kavanaugh. Many voters fear that their vote will not count if their ballot is not received by Election Day, November 3, 2020. The 7th Circuit Appellate ruled that these Republican groups did not have standing to file the lawsuit in the first place. This is another attempt to suppress the vote. #Election2020 #PresidentialElection #DisenfranchiseVoters #VoterSuppression Please eave a 5...
Nov 03, 2020•10 min•Season 1Ep. 15
⚡️QUESTION - Do you know an employer not paying the correct wages? ✅ Guest Bio: Jay Forester is a Class, Collective, and Mass Action lawyer and founding partner at Forester Haynie PLLC. Mr. Forester also manages the firm’s wage & hour practice, a subject matter he has regularly presented on and published on, including for the American Bar Association. In addition to wage and mass torts matters, Mr. Forester has also represented individuals in personal injury lawsuits, deceptive trade practic...
Oct 19, 2020•34 min
⚡️QUESTION - Did you have any issues voting? 📗 Show Notes / Key tips throughout the show ➡️ Research your candidate. Keep your elected official accountable post election Fill out the Census online https://2020census.gov/en.html Ballot Drop-Off lawsuit based on Texas Governor Abbott's Oct 1 Proclamation Election Code 61.003 Electioneering & Loitering Early Voting locations from this Tuesday October 13 to 30th: Go to www.VoteTexas.gov for your early voting location and sample ballot. 🔔 Like ...
Oct 12, 2020•11 min•Season 1Ep. 13
⚡️QUESTION - What ways have you been able to share awareness of domestic violence? Visit and donate to DAYA here: www.dayahouston.org Guest bio: Rachna Khare is the Executive Director for Daya, a Houston nonprofit that empowers South Asian survivors of violence through culturally specific services and community education. Rachna serves on the Houston Immigration Legal Services Collaborative. She sits on the Housing Steering Committee and the Interfaith Advisory Council for the Harris County Dome...
Oct 12, 2020•48 min•Season 1Ep. 12
⚡️QUESTION - Do you know a nonprofit to share with someone that is suffering from domestic violence? Guest Bio: Kristine Cruz graduated cum laude from SMU Dedman School of Law in 2016, and completed her bachelor's degree with honors in International Affairs at the George Washington University in 2012. Prior to law school, Kristine completed a post-graduate fellowship at the Polaris Project (now Polaris) in Washington D.C. Before coming to Mosaic as a staff attorney, Kristine completed a Fellowsh...
Oct 07, 2020•34 min
There was disturbing news reports a few weeks ago about the lack of COVID-19 protections and inadequate medical care, including a report that a number of women detained at the Irwin detention center in Ocilla, Georgia were unnecessarily subject to hysterectomies. These allegations are the clearest examples to date of the horrors of our immigration detention system—a system that perpetuates racial violence and undermines access to justice, while providing billions of dollars in profit annually to...
Oct 06, 2020•4 min
⚡️QUESTION - Has the CDC eviction moratorium order helped you? Guest Bio: Ron Rohde is a Texan with a long history in north Texas real estate. As soon as he had a driver’s license, he was delivering keys to tenants, supervising contractors, or delivering notarized closing documents for a variety of rental properties. Today, Ron focuses on all aspects of transactional real estate and corporate law. Outside of the office, Ron and his wife Bethany have a beautiful daughter, Violet. They live in Eas...
Sep 14, 2020•36 min
⚡️QUESTION - Have you been able to hold off eviction? 📗 Show Notes ➡️ 2:40 Explains why there was an uptick of needing pro bono representation for tenant eviction hearings 3:48 Shares his pro bono experience assisting a tenant in eviction hearing 6:00 What inspired him to help tenants pro bono 7:00 Overview of his daily practice areas 8:24 Challenges of practicing during covid19 pandemic 10:24 Reasons why need to have succession planning legal documents signed now 11:00 explains why a family me...
Sep 07, 2020•38 min
⚡️QUESTION - What was your experience with implicit bias? Guest Bio: U.A. Lewis practices civil rights. Her firm accepts personal injury, real estate, and criminal defense cases as well. She obtained her Juris Doctor from Texas Southern University in Houston, TX. U.A. Lewis handles a variety of cases including wrongful death, Police /Government Misconduct, premises liability, and sexual assaults. U.A. Lewis has won a record-setting settlement in Texas for her beloved client's Jesse Jacob's famil...
Aug 31, 2020•37 min•Season 1Ep. 7
⚡️QUESTION - How do you measure your team member's performance? Show Notes ➡️ 4:00 Carrie discusses what attracts clients to sign up with her firm 5:15 Carrie tells us what encouraged her to be a lawyer 7:40 How she manages two offices 9:57 Which app works best for scanning documents when taking a photo? 12:05 How she uses performance review as a tool to develop her employees 15:20 Why follow up meetings as a learning tool 17:15 How Carrie and her team function with their schedule and accomplish...
Aug 25, 2020•45 min•Season 1Ep. 6
⚡️QUESTION - What is one practical and immediate solution that can help decrease killings by law enforcement? Comment on our Youtube channelhttps://youtu.be/kukAhLllJZc Our guest Richard Celestin operates his own law firm as a criminal defense attorney since 2014 and his consulting company since 2009. Richard Anthony Celestin is a graduate of The City University of New York School of Law. While at CUNY Law, he focused his studies on criminal defense and juvenile justice. Prior to entering law sc...
Aug 20, 2020•58 min•Season 1Ep. 5
Episode on 7.6.2020 Listen to our guest Anna Rupani, Children's Director at Human Rights Initiative, discuss the statistics of increased denials under Trump Administration, reasons that led to these denials not normally accustomed to, difficulty of obtaining family court order when child is over 18 years old even though still in school, mail delays when needing to reply to USCIS requests. 📒 Show Notes 📒 ➡️ 30:00 Pro tip from Anna on how to stand out when seeking a job in a nonprofit legal orga...
Aug 16, 2020•54 min•Season 1Ep. 3
⚡️QUESTION - Would you rather have the stimulus check money or unemployment benefit of $400 per week? ❤️ Share this video with your friends: https://youtu.be/E00FSj5k4bA 📗 Show Notes ➡️ An extension of the federal unemployment supplement at a reduced rate of $400 per week A payroll tax holiday through the end of the year for Americans earning less than $100,000 Extended student loan relief through the end of the year A renewal of the eviction moratorium to keep struggling Americans in their hom...
Aug 10, 2020•10 min•Season 1Ep. 3
⚡️QUESTION - Do you agree with the current criminal charges? Criminal attorney James Kan shares his analysis of the charges against former cop Derek Chauvin and the other officers. Chauvin is charged with 3rd degree murder (Perpetrating Eminently Dangerous Act and Evincing Depraved Mind) and 2nd degree manslaughter (Culpable Negligence Creating Unreasonable Risk). On June 3, Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison amended the charges against Chauvin to include unintentional second-degree murder...
Aug 03, 2020•38 min•Season 1Ep. 2
⚡️QUESTION - Has this proclamation affected your industry? Immigration attorney Vy Hoang and host John Ting discuss President Trump's recent proclamation order. On June 22, 2020, President Trump signed a Proclamation for expanding visa restrictions to nonimmigrant visas and extended the ban against immigrant visas (adjustment of status aka green card) until December 31, 2020. Listen to immigration attorney Vy Hoang explain this and share tips on considerations when managing her team during covid...
Aug 02, 2020•21 min•Season 1Ep. 1
Welcome to Lawyer Up with John Ting. The idea of this podcast accumulated from the years of experience as an attorney observing first-hand implicit bias and learning how government policies can significantly affect every one of us, then catapulted to now post-death of George Floyd. We interview attorneys and stakeholders that have committed their life's work to making change happen, even if incremental. We thank them for their deeds. We also encourage more attorneys to give back through the stor...
Jul 31, 2020•2 min•Season 1Ep. 1
