Legal Magnolias is a space for vibrant women in law to have open, honest conversation about life, work, and play.
In our first season, we sit down with women attorneys across North Carolina whose practice areas are showing up in the headlines every week — heirs property, environmental law, immigration, LGBTQ+ family law, education, and the courts themselves. These are the lawyers doing the work behind the news, and they bring their full selves to the conversation: the wins, the hard days, the why.
Hosted by Maggie Davis and Sonya Linton | Magnolia Legal Law Firm
Produced by Sara Hofman | McNeely Web Design
Music by Tim Sheehan | Everyday Knife Fight
Ep 7 - NC Supreme Court: Down Ballot, Close to Home
On this episode of Legal Magnolias, hosts Maggie and Sonya talk with North Carolina Supreme Court Justice Anita Earls about her campaign to remain on the state's highest court and why so many of the rights people care about now rest with state courts rather than federal ones. Justice Earls walks through her path from civil rights litigator to the bench and why she ran for the state's highest court directly rather than working her way up through the lower courts. The conversation covers a lot ...
14 Aug 2026
Ep 6 - Education Law: A Right, Not a Privilege
On this episode of Legal Magnolias, hosts Maggie and Sonya talk with Jen Story, a longtime friend of Maggie's from law school and supervising attorney at Campbell Law School's Richardson Family Education Equity Clinic, about what North Carolina actually owes its kids in a classroom. Jen walks through why the state's constitution guarantees every child a "sound basic education," why a case testing that promise has been in court since the 1990s, and what happens when a legislature simply doesn'...
7 Aug 2026
Ep 5 - The Law, Love, and LGBTQ+ Families
On this episode of Legal Magnolias, hosts Maggie and Sonya talk with Meredith Nicholson and Milan Pham about representing LGBTQ+ families in North Carolina, before, during, and after marriage equality. Meredith and Milan walk through some of the assumptions that turn out to be wrong, like why having your name on your child's birth certificate doesn't automatically make you their legal parent, or how families protected each other through ordinary contracts years before marriage was ever an opt...
31 Jul 2026
Ep 4 - Environmental Justice - It's About Resiliance
This episode is about a phrase that was born right here in North Carolina, and about what happens when we ask who actually gets protected. Environmental justice sits where environmental law and social justice meet, and it's less about whether pollution happens than about who ends up living next to it. Hosts Maggie and Sonya sit down with Chandra T. Taylor-Sawyer, senior attorney at the Southern Environmental Law Center and leader of its Environmental Justice Initiative, for a conversation twe...
24 Jul 2026
Ep 3 - Heirs Property & the Meaning of Home
This episode of Legal Magnolias is a conversation about law, but also about home, legacy, and what it really means to keep land, and family, together. Heirs property — inherited real estate passed down without a clear title — quietly affects millions of American families, and it's often misunderstood as a niche or narrowly racial issue. Hosts Sonya and Maggie sit down with Mavis Gragg, CEO of HeirShares and a leading voice in heirs property law, to unpack what it really means to own land as a...
17 Jul 2026
Ep 2 - Immigration is Bigger than the Border
Most of what's happening in immigration right now isn't showing up in the headlines. In our first full episode, we sit down with two women who've spent decades in the trenches of immigration law: Heather Cruz, owner of Sivaraman Immigration Law, and Meghan Deutsch-Blanco — one focused on employment-based work with universities, medical practices, and rural schools, the other on families, humanitarian cases, and citizenship. Together they walk us through the story you're not being told — the U...
9 Jul 2026
Ep 1 - Welcome to Legal Magnolias
Welcome to Legal Magnolias — a podcast about the women lawyers taking up space, one conversation at a time. In this quick prologue, hosts Sonya Linton (estate planning attorney) and Maggie Davis (real estate attorney) — law partners at Magnolia Legal in Durham, North Carolina — share the origin story of the show. It starts at the North Carolina Association of Women Attorneys dinner, where Dean Nikia Davis lit them on fire with a challenge: stop waiting for permission, and take up the space yo...
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