JoDee Neil Attorney

08/22/2026

Sunday is the last day to vote!
Here is my video explaining what my pitch is about. If we heal ourselves we can heal our world. Wouldn’t that be nice?

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08/20/2026

I spent 21 years inside courtrooms. Two terms as a prosecutor. And people still ask me why the system seems built to protect the wrong people.

Here’s the truth. The Constitution was written by men guarding against a king who could seize your land and throw you in jail without a trial. They did great work with the tools they had. But they never envisioned justice and liberty for all. Just all property owning men.

That job got finished. Ours didn’t. The Constitution is one piece of the puzzle, and the puzzle was never supposed to stop developing.

So why have we stopped?

I still hold my law license. I can also tell the truth about what I’ve watched this system fail to do. Both things are true at once.

I wrote about all of it, including what happens when the courthouse can’t give you the justice you were promised, in my book Outcry Witness. It’s linked in my bio.

Tell me, do you think the system is unfinished, or working exactly as designed?

08/19/2026

Stop calling it happy hour. Call it liability hour.

That is what it is. I prosecuted what those nights actually build. DWIs on the drive home. Bosses hitting on subordinates. Careers ending over something that started as team bonding.

More sexual harassment and hostile work environment claims come out of company happy hours than almost anything else on your calendar.

Someone please schedule a liability hour for the marketing department once a month. That is what you are doing.

The fix is not complicated. You stop offering alcohol.

You can still have fun. Putt putt. A white elephant exchange. There is a whole world of connection that does not come with a legal exposure attached.

I wrote about what happens when workplaces refuse to name the obvious in Outcry Witness. Link is in my bio.

Real question. If your team can only bond with a drink in their hand, what does that say about the culture you built?