Season 1, Episode 1: Regina Campbell

In this Episode, Litigation Manager Ricardo Rincon interviews the Host of the Campbell Corner, Regina Campbell (Principal Attorney of the Campbell Law Group, PA). Regina discusses her heritage, hobbies, favorite restaurant, best thing about being an attorney and the most influential person in her life.

Transcript

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hello

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I am Ricardo Rincon and I’m the

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litigation manager at the Campbell law

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group in beautiful coral gables Florida

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welcome to episode one

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of the Campbell Corner podcast

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today I have the great pleasure of

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introducing

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the host of the Campbell Corner podcast

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attorney Regina Campbell hello everybody

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well I’m sure you guys have all seen her

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on her many videos on YouTube and

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social media and her website and if you

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haven't you really need to check that

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out because there's some really good

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informative stuff on there

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this podcast we thought we'd do

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something a little bit different we get

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to show you a side of Regina Campbell

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that most people don't get to know

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and we're doing this in a different

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format we're asking our interns to ask

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her questions since our interns have

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questions and they don't know so first

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question written by our summer interns

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okay so two questions because apparently

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they can't follow directions

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where were you born and what's your

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heritage

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I was born in Miami Florida and I have a

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Puerto Rican background also mixed with

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Scottish and Irish on my father's side

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well that explains the Campbell’s

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surname I think they probably heard you

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speaking Spanish must have confused them

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Campbell very American but she's

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A boriqua just so you know

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Regina Campbell

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and Puerto Rico so right there you're

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Puerto Rican there's a little Latinos

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out there

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where did you go to law school and what

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was your favorite class and I guess you

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could see that these are typical intern

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questions yeah

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well I went to Hofstra law school up in

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New York it's on long island and one of

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my favorite classes was business

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drafting

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business drafting what's that basically

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drafting contracts um you know operating

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agreements asset purchase agreements

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and since actually I had a lot of

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experience even before I went to law

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school and doing so for my own

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businesses and working with my other

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lawyers it was one of my

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one of the funnest classes I had I

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enjoyed it quite a bit well it sounds

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riveting

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okay

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you know you know that's why she's an

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attorney right that's why she's doing

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the work for you yes I know most of my

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clients don't want to read it they look

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at it they're like

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can you read this

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not for me

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all right next question can the interns

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get a raise sorry oops I don't know how

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that got in there you don't need to

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answer that one

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sorry I in fact I’m going to make sure you

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accidentally doctor pay all right

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question when you are not at work

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yeah

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that's probably your son all right

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when you're not at work what is your

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favorite pastimes hobby

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uh well actually exercising which would

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also include weight lifting I love

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particularly sports boating I love

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traveling those are my favorite past

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times well you take exercising pretty

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seriously isn't that how you hurt your

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knees

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I did actually but I did that doing you

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know jumping up uh doing a um a jump

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squat with a 25 pound of my uh on my

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chest

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and I literally did a gumby move in my

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in and out

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okay

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pretty horrible all right next question

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in your professional opinion what is the

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greatest threat to the world today and

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how do you relate the stress correlation

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to the fragile moral fabric upon which

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our society is based again the interns

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I love cancer no it's not that type of

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episode we're too light-hearted to be

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with you and

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can we do another podcast yeah we'll do

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another one with that one and I

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apologize again

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I’m remembering all of these questions

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interns okay this one's uh

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more along the lines of the show what is

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your favorite restaurant in Miami it's

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the Cipriani’s

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Cipriani and Brickell yes fantastic but

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you also lived in New York so I’m sure

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yes that's probably one of my favorite

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restaurants both places

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excellent and they're not paying us to

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save us excellent service great food

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wonderful okay how are we doing on time

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okay we're getting the thumbs up so we

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have time for a couple more questions

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all right here's a really insightful one

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which I’m surprised the interns wrote

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who has been the most influential person

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in your career and why

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well actually in my particular career

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would be my grandfather my grandfather

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was a judge in Puerto Rico and I always

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admired him he was a poet as well very

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creative writer so i always admired him

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and always

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thought of myself with going into the

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legal field and i always thought of him

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the way he was very ethical very kind

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also very equitable you know understood

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humanity and also the different aspects

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of course of law as well but brought

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that type of humanity into his not just

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his practice as a lawyer but also as a

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judge so from a career point of view he

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was one of the biggest people that

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influenced me well i had no idea that's

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awesome he sounds like a really cool guy

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um last question

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what is your favorite part about being

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an attorney

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i have to say it's actually representing

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people um defending people protecting

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them

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sometimes even from themselves but also

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protect them from difficult

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situations that they might be finding

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themselves in whether it's in a divorce

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or particular business dispute or

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litigation dispute some of the most

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heartbreaking ones are actually the ones

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that are victims of fraud

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because it's I’m protecting them i want

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to go after the person i want to get

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their money and they're very often

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difficult kind of cases and fraudsters

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they know the system very well so

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they're able to gain that quite a bit

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and in most cases doesn't make sense

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to litigate these cases so it's sort of

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a balance to try to

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find justice at the same time find

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remedy and help them find peace and

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closure with this you know bad chapter

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of their life but i would say that's one

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of the things i love most about being an

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attorney is protecting people and

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helping them and there's fraud in Miami

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oh my goodness

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I think we're the capital of the united

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states right yes yes Miami unfortunately

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is the fraud capital of the united

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states we're number one

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all right well it seems like that's all

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the time we have for today i'd like to

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thank uh our wonderful host for joining

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us and for you all for joining us for

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the inaugural episode of the Campbell

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Corner podcast please follow us on all

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of our social media and tune in uh next

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month when we have the fabulous

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actress slash director slash producer

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direct from Hollywood

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Cindy Luna thank you very much