Hosted by Maggie Davis and Sonya Linton
CONVERSATIONS WITH WOMEN IN LAW
LEGAL MAGNOLIAS
NEW PODCAST!
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
🔵 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?
July 8, 2026 • 4 min 33 sec
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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. A conversation about detention, due process, and how you keep showing up when the ground keeps moving.
Coming soon • 54 min 33 sec
Roots and Rights: Mavis Gragg on Heirs Property and Generational Land Loss
with Mavis Gragg
Mavis Gragg has built her practice around one of the most quietly devastating issues facing Black families in the South: heirs property. When land passes down without a will, families can lose generations of wealth in a single court filing. Mavis joins us to talk about the legal mechanics, why it's a civil rights issue, and what she's learned from the families fighting to hold on.
Coming soon • 42 min 33 sec