Hosted by Maggie Davis and Sonya Linton
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CONVERSATIONS WITH WOMEN IN LAW
LEGAL MAGNOLIAS
NEW EPISODES WEEKLY!
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.
All Episodes
Episode Descriptions
Ep 5 - The Law, Love, and LGBTQ+ Families
with Meredith Nicholson and Milan Pham
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 option.
🟢 Published Aug 7 • 28 min 12 sec
Ep 4 - Environmental Justice
with Chandra T. Taylor-Sawyer
Attorney Chandra Taylor-Sawyer sits down with Sonya and Maggie to unpack environmental justice: what it actually means, why it benefits everyone, and why resilience is at the heart of it. A candid conversation about the laws and policies shaping our environment.
🟢 Published July 31 • 29 min 11 sec
Ep 3 - Heirs Property - It's
with Mavis Gragg
Attorney Mavis Gragg joins Sonya and Maggie to talk heirs' property — what it is, why families lose land over it, and why "just get a will" isn't the fix everyone thinks it is. A personal, honest conversation about law, land, and what we leave behind.
🟢 Published July 24 • 39 min 57 sec
Ep 2 - Immigration is Bigger Than the Border
with Meghan Deutsch-Blanco & Heather Crews
Immigration law is moving faster than the headlines can keep up. We sit down with two attorneys working at different points in the system: Meghan Deutsch-Blanco and Heather Crews. Together, they walk us through what immigration practice actually looks like right now — the cases on their desks, the policy whiplash, the parts of the system most Americans never see, and the human stakes behind every filing.
🟢 Published July 17, 2026 • 31 min 22 sec
Ep 1 - Welcome to Legal Magnolias
with your hosts Maggie and Sonya
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 you've earned. She held up an image of a pregnant Statue of Liberty, knee-deep in the muck and still lifting her flame, and asked the room: what is your flame?
🟢 Published July 8, 2026 • 4 min 33 sec