The Campbell Corner Podcast – Regina Campbell (S1:E1)

Transcript

Host: Ricardo Rincon, Litigation Manager, The Campbell Law Group (TCLG)

Guest: Regina M. Campbell, Esq., host of The Campbell Corner and founder of The Campbell Law Group (TCLG)

Introduction and heritage

Ricardo Rincon: Hello, I am Ricardo Rincon, and I'm the litigation manager at The Campbell Law Group in beautiful Coral Gables, Florida. Welcome to episode one of The Campbell Corner podcast. Today I have the great pleasure of introducing the host of The Campbell Corner podcast, Attorney Regina Campbell.

Regina Campbell: Hello, everybody.

Ricardo Rincon: Well, I'm sure you've all seen her in her many videos on YouTube, on social media and on her website. And if you haven't, you really need to check that out, because there's some really good, informative stuff on there. For this podcast, we thought we'd do something a little bit different. We get to show you a side of Regina Campbell that most people don't get to know, and we're doing this in a different format. We're asking our interns to ask her questions, since our interns have questions and they don't know. So, first question, written by our summer interns. Okay, so two questions, because apparently they can't follow directions. Where were you born, and what's your heritage?

Regina Campbell: I was born in Miami, Florida, and I have a Puerto Rican background, also mixed with Scottish and Irish on my father's side.

Ricardo Rincon: Well, that explains the Campbell surname. I think they probably heard you speaking Spanish, and that must have confused them. Campbell, very American, but she's a Bori.

Regina Campbell: Yeah. Yes, I'm Regina Campbell, from Puerto Rico. There's your Puerto Rican, fellow Latinos out there.

Law school and business drafting

Ricardo Rincon: Where did you go to law school, and what was your favorite class? And I guess you can see that these are typical intern questions.

Regina Campbell: Yeah. Well, I went to Hofstra Law School up in New York. It's on Long Island, and one of my favorite classes was business drafting.

Ricardo Rincon: Business drafting, what's that?

Regina Campbell: Basically drafting contracts: operating agreements, asset purchase agreements. I actually had a lot of experience doing that even before I went to law school, for my own businesses and working with my other lawyers. It was one of the most fun classes I had. I enjoyed it quite a bit.

Ricardo Rincon: Well, it sounds riveting. Okay. That's why she's doing the work for you.

Regina Campbell: Yes, I know most of my clients don't want to read it. They look at it and they're like, "Oh, Regina, can you read this? Not for me."

Hobbies and a favorite restaurant

Ricardo Rincon: All right, next question. Can the interns get a raise? Sorry, oops, I don't know how that got in there. You don't need to answer that one. Sorry. All right, when you're not at work, what is your favorite pastime or hobby?

Regina Campbell: Well, actually exercising, which would also include weightlifting. I love sports, particularly boating. I love traveling. Those are my favorite pastimes.

Ricardo Rincon: Well, you took exercising pretty seriously. Isn't that how you hurt your knees?

Regina Campbell: I did, actually. I was doing a jump squat with 25 pounds on my chest, and I literally did a funny move, and my knee went in and out.

Ricardo Rincon: Okay, pretty horrible. All right, next question. In your professional opinion, what is the greatest threat to the world today, and how do you relate this threat's correlation to the fragile moral fabric upon which our society is based? Again, the interns.

Regina Campbell: I'd love to answer that.

Ricardo Rincon: No, it's not that type of episode. We're doing a lighthearted view of you.

Regina Campbell: Can we do another podcast?

Ricardo Rincon: Yeah, we'll do another one with that one, and I apologize again. Okay, this one's more along the lines of the show. What is your favorite restaurant in Miami?

Regina Campbell: It's Cipriani's.

Ricardo Rincon: Cipriani in Brickell?

Regina Campbell: Yes. Fantastic.

Ricardo Rincon: But you also lived in New York, so I'm sure you...

Regina Campbell: Yes, that's probably one of my favorite restaurants in both places. Cipriani's is excellent. They're not paying us to say this. Excellent service, great food.

The most influential person in her career

Ricardo Rincon: Wonderful. Okay, how are we doing on time? Okay, we're getting the thumbs up, so we have time for a couple more questions. All right, here's a really insightful one, which I'm surprised the interns wrote. Who has been the most influential person in your career, and why?

Regina Campbell: Well, actually, in my particular career, it would be my grandfather. My grandfather was a judge in Puerto Rico, and I admired him. He was a poet as well, very creative, a writer. So I admired him, and I thought of him when going into the legal field. I thought of the way he was: very ethical, very kind, also very equitable. He understood humanity, and also the different aspects of the law, of course, but he brought that type of humanity not just into his practice as a lawyer, but also into his work as a judge. So from a career point of view, he was one of the people who influenced me the most.

Ricardo Rincon: Well, I had no idea. That's awesome. He sounds like a really cool guy.

Her favorite part of being an attorney

Ricardo Rincon: Last question. What is your favorite part about being an attorney?

Regina Campbell: I have to say it's actually representing people: defending people, protecting them, sometimes even from themselves, but also protecting them from difficult situations they might find themselves in, whether it's a divorce or a particular business dispute or litigation dispute. Some of the most heartbreaking ones are actually the victims of fraud. Because I'm protecting them, I want to go after the person. I want to get them.

These are very often difficult kinds of cases. Fraudsters know the system very well, so they're able to gain quite a bit, and in most cases it doesn't make sense to litigate these cases. So it's a balance: trying to find justice, and at the same time find a remedy and help them find peace and closure with this bad chapter of their life. But I would say that's one of the things I love most about being an attorney: protecting people and helping them.

Ricardo Rincon: And there's fraud in Miami?

Regina Campbell: Oh, goodness. I think we're the capital of the United States, right?

Ricardo Rincon: Yes, Miami unfortunately is the fraud capital of the United States. We're number one. All right, well, it seems like that's all the time we have for today. I'd like to thank our wonderful host for joining us, and all of you for joining us for the inaugural episode of The Campbell Corner podcast. Please follow us on all of our social media, and tune in next month, when we have the fabulous actress, director and producer from Hollywood, Cindy Luna. Thank you very much.

Regina Campbell: Thank you.