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In Episode 7, co-host Shireen Clarkson turns the tables and puts Ryan Clarkson in the hot seat — tracing the arc of his life from a big Midwestern family to the courtroom, and asking the questions that reveal what really drives one of the country’s leading consumer and public interest litigators.
In this episode:
- Ryan’s upbringing in Michigan — a factory-worker dad, a community-minded mom, and the values they instilled that still show up in how he practices law
- How he found his way to law without a single lawyer in the family — and the early career moments that forged his instincts
- What separates a good litigator from a great one, and how Ryan knows in his gut when a case is worth fighting
- The misconceptions people have about plaintiff lawyers — and why Ryan believes corporations are running a deliberate disinformation campaign against the very people fighting for everyday consumers
- How his definition of success has shifted with age, and what the “back nine” of life has clarified about what actually matters
- When the legislature won’t act and the executive branch won’t regulate, the courts become the last line of defense. Ryan has spent decades showing up to that fight — and this episode is the story of how he got there.
If you believe justice doesn’t move on its own, this one’s for you.
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