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"When many states have had difficulty carrying out lethal injections due to difficulty accessing drugs or finding medical professionals willing to participate in executions, firing squads are coming to be seen as a less inhumane alternative," said Brenner Fissell, a professor at Villanova Law and vice president of the National Institute of Military Justice.

"Firing squads can be a quicker, cleaner, more precise way to execute a prisoner," he said.

I don't think, "I don't think that's what's motivating this.

And when I did, um, My response, or at least my initial reaction was to just completely hit back.

As you said at the beginning of the conversation, Duke, lawyer, not a licensed attorney in any state at the moment, but I have a JD from Villanova Law School.

I've got a master's of law in entertainment and media law from Southwestern.

I played college football at University of Delaware.

And, [laughs] and one of, one of the reasons that I wrote this book is to answer the question, how did you get this career that you have? Because I, I have had a wonderful career in government, um, in, um, in, you know, big law firm, in major, uh, uh, corporation.

I was a law professor for three years at Villanova Law School and, and people wanna understand, "You're, you're successful.

How can I be successful?" And so part of the reason I wrote the book was to tell my story and talk about, um, the, the different jobs that I had along the way.

But also, it was an homage to my, um, mentors, because my mentors were so important and helpful to me throughout the time that I was building my career.

So, um, I'll, I'll tell you one of my stories, and then I'll tell you about one of my mentees, um, uh, Valerie, um, Harrison.

Um, I was, um...

When I was, um, uh, being considered for both, um, a position at Villanova Law School, um, as well as a position at Comcast, um, uh, Corporation, I had mentors who had worked with me in the past who were contacted by my mentors.

So I had Judge Green and Judge Higginbotham, who, unbeknownst to me, were being contacted by Vi- uh, Villanova Law School because, uh, their names were on my, my resume.

And I'm the student manager of the media technology department at my school.

My school has a pathway program with Villanova Law School, promising substantial scholarships to students who place above their medians.

For juniors, this means obtaining a GPA of 3.8 plus and an LSAT score higher than 164 before January of their junior year.

And then we have a link to the program.

Of course you don't because no, I'm in a three plus three.

I can't even get my bachelor's.

If I don't go to Villanova Law School because I'm in this 3.3, or sorry, if I decide not to go to Villanova Law School, then I have to do an extra year of undergrad at the College of New Jersey.

Now it becomes expensive for me to back out,

I'm talking about it actually today in my class.

at Villanova Law where there's owner misconduct.

And how do you deal with that? Whether it's Robert Sarver, whether it's Marge Schott, whether it's Steven Ross with tampering, and of course, Daniel Snyder.

Now, 49ers owner Jed York was arrested last month near his home in Ohio, pleaded no contest to misdemeanors in a prostitution related case.

A Green Bay Packer VP for nine years.

at Villanova Law School, you went to Stanford, you had aspirations to be a professional tennis player, all these different things, man, you are just a full blown chameleon with all these things that you've done.

So how do you go from Stanford, okay, and your aspirations would be a professional tennis player, and for whatever reason, right or wrong, Stanford's always had super strong programs and all these different other, mainly besides football, all these other sports that they have, men's and women's, but how do you go from that to being an NFL agent?

I grew up, you know, so many young people grow up this way.

And I ended up going to law school and probably spent... one-third of my mental energy on law and two-thirds on playing around with a computer, getting on this new thing called AOL, and then eventually getting onto the internet very, very early.

Graduated law school and then decided to get another law degree, an LLM in taxation, and that was at Villanova Law School.

And at Villanova, Villanova was, you know, their internet efforts were pioneered, were really a pioneering group of professors, the Unix guys from the library, and some students that were really doing the initial things on the internet with regard to the practice of law.

So, in 92, 93, I was on the internet, saw the first... 50 or so worldwide web pages, right? Became super interested in it.