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- Rick Outzen: This is Rick's Vlog Live. Thank you for watching it. Yeah, we're coming up to September. September is when the Levin Papentonia Law Firm puts on its People's Law School. It's been going on for 16 years now. Brenton Goodman is one of the speakers this year and he joins me now. Brenton, thank you for coming. Rick. Good to do it. You know, y'all have been doing this for 16 years. Why has this been so important to the firm? Brenton Goodman: Thank you for having me. Well, you it started with Mike Papantonio, and the importance really came from jobs as lawyers and seeing people every day coming to us at their worst possible moment and realizing that if they had had knowledge about the law or about what was going on before they came into our office, their situation could be made much better, right? Or we could be able to help them even more so than we are when they're at that ⁓ worst moment. ⁓ so Mike had this idea, let's put on a free event. where we teach people in the community not only about issues that we see that are present in the community itself and the nation at large, but also to advise them on different areas of law and bring in different experts and different lawyers from this area that they can then connect with and be able to speak to and talk to. Rick Outzen: know, it's two hours a week. It's the fourteenth, the twenty-first, and the twenty-eighth at Corinne Jones community center. ⁓ it's free. That's right. Right. You need to register and we'll have all that information up there for you to do it. you're you're gonna be doing the class on or ⁓ the on name, image, and likeness in I. Why do you think why should that be added to this? Brenton Goodman: Yeah, so ⁓ whole focus is trying to make sure that the community has all the information they need. ⁓ name image likeness is really something that's kind of brand new. And it's the idea that players, especially student athletes in high school and college, can make money off of their own personal brand, right? Right. And because it's so brand new and because this affects both ⁓ high and college students, ⁓ I anyone that plays sports or even has an idea to be a social media influencer or anything like that. There's information out there that they should know because the thing is when you have something that's brand new like this, you have a lot of predatory entities and people that want to take advantage of people that don't know what's going on. so the idea behind us doing ⁓ NIL talk is to let people know ⁓ to look out for and also what the opportunities are for local kids here as they grow up. Rick Outzen: Well, you know, you and I were talking before we came on in in the break was that, you know, your grandfather, Fred Levin, was heavily involved with athletes here in the community, known for boxing with Roy Jones, of course he involved with Emmett Smith and and several others over the years. tell were telling me a story about how you sold the firm ⁓ on you up N N I L. ⁓ Brenton Goodman: Yeah, you know, so I the the firm has been wonderful and they agreed to to back my venture and my thoughts that this is something that we as a firm need to get into and I'm proud to say that we're gonna be the first firm that's directly involved in name image likeness space ⁓ that's local. And I told them, I said, look, when you think about it and when people talk about Fred Levin in the community, they associate him with these athletes, ⁓ right? he did wonderful things in the law, but a lot of people Their attention was grabbed because they saw Fred Levin in the camera, right beside you know the Roy Jones Juniors of the World and that nature. And I said, this is a way that we can be able to get this information out to people, is really utilize space and our connections ⁓ help those, and normally it's just those who've been hurt in motor vehicle accidents, wrongful deaths and things of that nature, big trucking incidents. Now we can do it to help prevent people from taken advantage of on the front end. And really help high school students and college students and pros, you know, make sure that they get as much value as they can out of their own name, image. Rick Outzen: Well Brent, I mean for for this community, the type of athletes that we're producing kids every year, we've got, you know, dozens of kids that are going off to college on scholarships. We now have some high school kids that have been picked up with with some of these training academy high schools. ⁓ a need for someone to step in and take care of them or least advise them in these kind of situations. ⁓ going back to the l to the people's law though, you grew up here, you came back to practice law here. Why do you think this education, this type of education y'all are offering, stills a value? Brenton Goodman: Yeah, you know, I think it's wonderful value, one because it's free. Right. Right. But but mainly because if don't ⁓ know out there and what to avoid and what to do, ⁓ then have no idea of how to protect yourself. So what this does is this gives the information to the people. That's why we call it the People's Law School. This gives information to the people in our community to make the best decisions for themselves. Cause it's not only NIL that we're talking about, we're talking about trusts, estates, wills. Rick Outzen: Right. Brenton Goodman: Probates, motor vehicle crashes, workmen's comp. These are all issues that you find yourself in, ⁓ have said, Man, I wish I would have done something, right? We hear all the time from friends and family members who they have matriarchal, patriarchal family pass away, but there's no will, and now the whole family's fighting, right? ⁓ Maybe that, but how do I avoid that? Well, you can do certain things. You can do use trusts or wills and create your estate in different ways. And so what we do is we really create ⁓ a free Avenue for people to come, enjoy themselves, get free food, get free drinks, and find local attorneys and experts that can do it. Rick Outzen: Well and that's the other thing that that it need to be lost in this for for the viewers is is firm's So there's a lot of one-on-one time with attorneys if you've got questions, that that so it's not just what's presented in the session, ⁓ but there's also opportunity to to meet some of the top attorneys, you know, in this some of them top attorneys in the country. it is all right, you've g I'm gonna give you thirty seconds. You there are only three nights. All right, how can you your best pitch for people to come the night that you're doing in IL? ⁓ Brenton Goodman: Well, I mean not only only am I charismatic, but it is it is the it is one of the first pitches that we give and conversations that we have with all types of high school students, which is how can I make myself better and prepare for college? And you have a child that plays ⁓ in sport in high or college, ⁓ or if know a child that plays in high school or college, you need to to this lecture. Because it will tell you what they can do not only to maximize the money that they can get, but help save themselves for the future. And the way I ⁓ envision it is because it's not only about money. If you want an internship somewhere, you can utilize your name, image, likeness to get your foot in the door into that business or that company. You don't necessarily have to be trying to hawk a product or trying to make money. But if you want an internship, maybe saying, hey, let me do some social media for you, let me do some advertising, but hey, can I come in once a week and look at what your individuals are doing right so you care about a high school student or a college student or a professional you're want to be hit be there. Rick Outzen: Brenton, thank you so much for coming. Thank you. Holly Rick. It's been fun watching you grow up. Great. Well, go ahead and take a break. I'm Rick Allison. We'll be right back.