Attorneys & Law Speakers

Fee Range: Inquire
Travels From: DC

A master in teaching the art of manifestation, this former Sports Attorney, Miss America Finalist and Donald Trump Apprentice, left her full-time job as a stuffy big-firm lawyer and turned her passion for people into a multimillion-dollar enterprise just a few years ago. She helps emerging & established women influencers of faith to Believe Bigger, Live Bigger and Profit Bigger so that they can ultimately Give Bigger.

Fee Range: $20,000–$40,000
Travels From: GA

Fee: $35,000
Travels From: NY

For nearly twenty years, Joey has helped organizations retain their best customers and turn them into raving fans via his entertaining and actionable keynotes, workshops, and consulting projects. His First 100 Days® methodology helps fuel the successful customer experiences his clients deliver around the world. In his Wall Street Journal #2 best-selling book, Never Lose a Customer Again, Joey shares strategies and tactics for turning one-time purchasers into lifelong customers – while dramatically increasing profits along the way.

Fee Range: $15,000–$32,000
Travels From: IA

Richard Rothstein is a Distinguished Fellow of the Economic Policy Institute and a Senior Fellow (emeritus) at the Thurgood Marshall Institute of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund. He is the author of The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America, which recovers a forgotten history of how federal, state, and local policy explicitly segregated metropolitan areas nationwide, creating racially homogenous neighborhoods in patterns that violate the Constitution and require remediation. He is also the author of many other articles and books on race and education. Previous influential books include Class and Schools: Using Social, Economic and Educational Reform to Close the Black–White Achievement Gap and Grading Education: Getting Accountability Right.

Fee Range: $5,000–$14,000
Travels From: DC

Fee Range: $25,000–$44,000
Travels From: NY

Born in Brooklyn in the back of a taxi, Iyanla Vanzant was given to her grandmother at age 2 after her mother died. Teen pregnancy, abusive marriages, and welfare followed a troubled and abusive childhood. But it is from this less than inspiring background that Vanzant has built the foundation for transformation. Vanzant earned a BS degree from Medgar Evers College and a JD degree from Queens College Law School. She became an attorney, serving four years as a public defender in Philadelphia. She is the author of Tapping The Power Within: A Path to Empowerment for Black Women. She has established the Inner Visions Spiritual Life Maintenance Center, where she regularly conducts personal growth classes and weekend workshops for both men and women. She makes regular appearances on radio and national television.

Fee Range: $60,000–$120,000
Travels From: MD

Fee Range: $20,000–$38,500
Travels From: CA

Reshma Saujani is the Founder and CEO of Girls Who Code, the international nonprofit organization working to close the gender gap in technology and change the image of what a computer programmer looks like and does.

Fee Range: $50,000–$94,000
Travels From: NY

Mel Robbins is one of the most popular motivational female speakers in the world. She is the host of the daytime syndicated talk show, The Mel Robbins Show, which aired nationwide in September 2019. One of the world's leading experts on behavioral change, Mel Robbin's research and tools have helped millions of people overcome procrastination, self-doubt, and anxiety. She is a serial entrepreneur, best-selling author, internationally recognized social media influencer, and one of the most sought-after motivational speakers in the world. Mel is a no-nonsense motivational speaker who challenges audiences with strategies to revamp their personal lives and careers. Mel's practical, high-energy message provides tangible results that help people push through the everyday challenges we all face in life, work, and love.

Fee Range: $156,000–$325,000
Travels From: VT

Van Jones is the Founder of Dream Corps. He is a social entrepreneur, a CNN political commentator, Emmy Award-winning producer, and a three-time New York Times best-selling author. Jones was the main advocate for the Green Jobs Act. Signed into law by George W. Bush in 2007, the Green Jobs Act was the first piece of federal legislation to codify the term "green jobs." A Yale-educated attorney, Jones has won numerous awards, including the World Economic Forum’s “Young Global Leader” designation, Rolling Stone’s 2012 “12 Leaders Who Get Things Done”, TIME’s 2009 “100 Most Influential People in The World”, the 2010 NAACP Image Award, a 2017 WEBBY Special Achievement Award, a 2019 Lumiere Award and a 2020 Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Original Interactive Program.

Fee Range: $43,000–$63,000
Travels From: CA

Fee Range: $20,000–$35,000
Travels From: VA

Fee Range: $40,000–$95,000
Travels From: CA

Best known as the former quarterback of the San Francisco 49ers, Steve Young experienced first-hand what communication, leadership, and the power of simple hard work can achieve. Over a career that spanned 15 years, he is the highest-rated quarterback in NFL history, won the MVP award in Super Bowl XXIX, was the league's MVP in 1992 and 1994, and was selected for seven consecutive Pro Bowl appearances. Young has also set NFL history by being the only quarterback to have won four consecutive passing titles, to post four consecutive seasons with a quarterback rating of above 100, and the only quarterback to post six consecutive 300-yard plus passing games. Young is now a studio analyst on ESPN's Sunday NFL Countdown. Young also serves as the spokesman for the Best Shot Foundation, he is the National Advisor to ASCEND: A Humanitarian Alliance and founded a charitable foundation known as the Forever Young Foundation.

Fee Range: $32,000–$65,000
Travels From: CA

Fee Range: $37,000–$57,000
Travels From: CA

Mehrsa Baradaran writes about banking law, financial inclusion, inequality, and the racial wealth gap. Her scholarship includes the books How the Other Half Banks and The Color of Money: Black Banks and the Racial Wealth Gap, both published by the Harvard University Press. Mehrsa Baradaran is a professor of law at UCI Law. Previously, she was the Robert Cotten Alston Chair in Corporate Law and Associate Dean for strategic initiatives with a focus on diversity and inclusion efforts and national and international faculty scholarship recognition at the University of Georgia School of Law. Baradaran and her books have received significant national and international media coverage and have been featured in the New York Times, the Atlantic, Slate and American Banker; National Public Radio’s Marketplace, C-SPAN’s Washington Journal, and as part of TEDxUGA. She has advised U.S. Senators and Congressmen on policy, testified before the U.S. Congress, and spoken at national and international forums like the U.S. Treasury and the World Bank.

Fee Range: $14,000–$20,000
Travels From: CA

Melody Barnes is co-director for policy and public affairs for the Democracy Initiative, an interdisciplinary teaching, research, and engagement effort led by the College and Graduate School of Arts & Sciences at the University of Virginia. She is the Dorothy Danforth Compton Professor and a professor of practice at the Miller Center and is also a distinguished fellow at the UVA School of Law. A co-founder of the domestic strategy firm MB2 Solutions LLC, Barnes has spent more than 25 years crafting public policy on a wide range of domestic issues.

Fee Range: $15,000–$20,000
Travels From: VA

Douglas A. Blackmon is the Pulitzer-Prize winning author of Slavery by Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II, and co-executive producer of the acclaimed PBS documentary based of the same name. His is also a contributing correspondent at The Washington Post and executive producer and host of American Forum, a public affairs program produced by the University of Virginia’s Miller Center and aired on 100 public television affiliates across the U.S. Blackmon is a much sought after lecturer on race, history and social memory. In Spring 2010, he was invited by Attorney General Eric Holder to present a lecture to senior Department of Justice of officials in Washington D.C. He also has lectured at Harvard School of Law, Yale University, Princeton, the New School, Emory University, Vanderbilt School of Law, the Clinton and Lincoln presidential libraries, and many other institutions.

Fee Range: $10,000–$15,000
Travels From: GA

Fee Range: $10,000–$20,000
Travels From: VA

Shannon Bream is the anchor of Fox News @ Night and Chief Legal Correspondent for the Fox News Channel. In that role, she has covered numerous political campaigns, landmark Supreme Court decisions and Washington scandals. Shannon is also the author of three bestselling books, Finding the Bright Side: The Art of Chasing What Matters and The Women of The Bible Speak: The Wisdom of 16 Women and Their Lessons for Today, which spent four weeks at #1 on the New York Times Bestseller list, and her most recent book, The Mothers and Daughters of the Bible Speak. Prior to landing at Fox News, Shannon worked at local affiliates WFTS (ABC) in Tampa, FL, WBTV (CBS) in Charlotte, NC and WRC-TV (NBC) in Washington, DC.

Fee Range: $20,000–$40,000
Travels From: DC

Known as a builder of political bridges with deep expertise in both the public and private sector, Ambassador Scott Brown speaks from more than 30 years of experience as a diplomat, senator, military officer, trade negotiator and bestselling author. As the former Ambassador to New Zealand and the Independent State of Samoa, he is considered an expert on all issues in the Indo-Pacific, including the U.S. relationship with China. In that region and beyond, Ambassador Brown brings high-level insights into the impact of geopolitics on trade and the business climate. He also shares an inspirational personal story of rising out of abuse and troubled beginnings to achieve success against all odds.

Fee Range: $15,000–$25,000
Travels From: NH

The owner of the Washington, DC-based CakeLove and the former host of the Food Network's “Sugar Rush”, Warren Brown is an entrepreneurial icon. Taking an unconventional career path, Brown left his job as an attorney for the federal government to pursue his dream. Passionate about cake and the happiness that it brings, Brown opened CakeLove and soon perfected his recipe for success, ultimately expanding to six retail storefronts. Warren Brown has been recognized for his entrepreneurial spirit by local and national media including “The Oprah Winfrey Show”, “The Today Show”, NPR, CNN, and Inc. magazine, and national advertisement campaigns for American Express and Dell computers. He has published several cookbooks: CakeLove: How to Bake Cakes from Scratch, United Cakes of America, CakeLove in the Morning, and his latest, Pie Love. In this, his fourth book, Brown answers every baker's questions about making the perfect pie and includes recipes that range from sweet to savory.

Fee: $10,000
Travels From: DC

A renown global futurist, social scientist, author and global advisor to the Fortune 100, James Canton has been forecasting the leading innovations and trends that have shaped our world for 25 years. Canton speaks on a broad range of topics such as trends in innovation, financial services, health care, population, life sciences, energy, security, workforce, climate change and globalization. He is the CEO and Chairman of the Institute for Global Futures, a San Francisco based Think Tank. He has advised three White Houses, over ten nations, and over 100 companies worldwide. He was on the founding advisory board of Singularity University, was a Apple Computer executive and has appeared on CNN, CNBC, Fox and NBC. He is the author of Future Smart, Technofutures and The Extreme Future

Fee Range: $10,000–$20,000
Travels From: CA

Fee Range: $10,000–$27,000
Travels From: AZ