HeyJaredThe Case For... (with Matthew Campobasso)
Welcome to The Case For… A pause button in a noisy world. A place to talk about the things that matter to us. I'll bring my legal training. You bring your fire. I’m Matthew Campobasso: prosecutor-turned-litigator-turned-CLO, dad, professor, author.
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The Case For Quiet Discipline (opens the original)
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I want to talk about the least interesting thing that will ever change your life. It’s not a breakthrough or a revelation or a crisis that forces you to rebuild. It’s the thing you do on a Tuesday that nobody sees. The decision you make at 6am that nobody applauds. The promise you keep with yourself at 10pm when you’re exhausted and the only person who would know if you broke it is you. There is no word in our culture that is more misunderstood than discipline. We hear it and we think punishment
The Case For The "Deep End" (opens the original)
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It's late August 2006. I'm twenty-eight years old, sitting in my office on my first day as an Assistant State's Attorney in McHenry County, Illinois. I've been filling out health insurance forms for ten minutes when the Chief of the Criminal Division walks in, tosses a case file on my desk, and tells me I need to be in Courtroom 301 in fifteen minutes to pick a jury and try a DUI trial. I don't have my law license yet. I tell her I can't try a case alone. She tells me I won't be alone — Bill wil
The Case For Listening To Your Gut (opens the original)
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I want to tell you about a man I used to work with. His name was Ian Turvill. For several years at the Chicago law firm Freeborn & Peters, our offices shared a wall. Ian was the firm’s Chief Marketing Officer. He was genuinely kind, genuinely funny — the kind of humor that made you feel like you were in on the joke, never the target of it. He made people feel comfortable. He made people feel seen. In a law firm where the culture can be intense and cold, Ian was a warm room. In 2017, Ian took his
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