Uncommon Law ~ Lessons they don’t teach in law school.
Imagine that My Cousin Vinny became a NY State Supreme Court Justice after thirty-three years in private law practice where he represented killers, mobsters, robbers, rogue cops, rabbis, scammers, boxers, musicians, jockeys, trainers, a war hero, a sculptor, and a film director among many other characters. Got it? Good. This is the podcast Vinny would have created. This podcast is a collection of short stories about cases, clients, experiences and lessons that Judge Rudy Greco learned in street knowledge college.
Episodes
Choice of forum. World 130 lb. champion Barry McGuigan is exploited by his gambling manager and seeks retribution in the wrong place after losing his temper.
Choice of forum. World 130 lb. champion Barry McGuigan is exploited by his gambling manager and seeks retribution in the wrong place after losing his temper.
The only crime is poverty. A charming Argentine con man leads a completely charmed life... almost.
All kings don't live in castles. All queens don't wear crowns. The wonderful personalities of Rudy's maternal grandfather and paternal grandmother who left Sicily in the early 1900's to build fruitful lives in New York City.
Defending the guilty? No problem. An innocent teen and his friends are caught in a dragnet and charged with armed robbery.
Building character through a Catholic education.
It's not what you know but who you know. A young lawyer wins battle after battle but can't win the war until a phone call is made to the right person.
Revenge is a dish that tastes best when it's cold. A jolly, chubby, Finnish domestic cleans up a messy marriage when she confronts her dirty husband and his dirty lawyer. Two bullies get their lumps.
Be it ever so humble there's no place like home. A funny ex-con returns to prison and the spotlight on the stage he loves: a tragedy.
Blind justice. A thoroughbred horse trainer is found sleeping behind the wheel of her pickup truck which is lodged against a brick column of the entrance to a North Shore estate. She goes to trial to fight back against charges of drunk driving and assaulting a police officer.
A well rounded man. Vinny Aleles, a Greek American accountant from Brooklyn, goes on to own a famous Manhattan restaurant, head up the Box Office Guild, become Vice President of a Broadway Theater powerhouse and earn a Super Bowl ring.
If you want respect you must earn respect. The president of the Brooklyn Hod Carriers and Laborers Union stood up and faced down armed gunmen before a skinny waterboy.
There are only two kinds of problems. Jimmy Jacobs was a world champion athlete who put together an enormously successful archival boxing film collection and went on to manage numerous world champion boxers including Wilfred Benitez and Mike Tyson.
Basic to basics. As a graduate student at Hebrew Union College, Rudy the Roman Catholic learns a lot about religion and the meaning of life from a brilliant rabbi.
Billy Phillips, a notorious killer and rogue cop who ruined hundreds of lives as the star witness of the Knapp Commission, redefines Rudy's beliefs and opinion of informants or stool pigeons.
Psychological warfare. Gene Kilroy was Cassius Clay's (Mohammad Ali) day to day manager from beginning to end. A fascinating guy who became a Las Vegas casino VIP host concierge. An insider's look at Ali vs Forman - "The Rumble in the Jungle".
Unforeseeable consequences. Rudy's experience as an officer candidate enlistee in the United States Marine Corps.
The power of publicity. Barcelona born Francisco Cuevas was a bicycle frame maker who served on both sides in the Spanish Civil War. He emigrated to Argentina and the United States of America before returning home in his eighties to fame and honor in his homeland.
Don't pick fights with strangers. Johnny Verderosa a former world champ kills a shipmate in self defense and faces the consequences.
"From saying to doing is half an ocean." -ITALIAN PROVERB. Rudy conceives, writes, funds and distributes a children's history of Jackson Heights, his community which is arguably the most diverse in the world. Bernie Madoff helps.
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