“Once Benjaga agreed to produce ‘Combat in the Courtroom,’ I handed them a collection of entirely unedited and free-wheeling conversations I’d recorded with the podcast’s protagonist, the legendary Louisiana criminal defense attorney Mike Fawer, and somehow, miraculously, they crafted not only the theme and narrative for the full series but also figured out how to structure and piece together each individual episode. They turned it into a real show, with music and pizzaz and depth, and went the extra mile to make sure it all fit together, even if it meant personally re-recording portions that I had either missed or hadn’t gotten quite right. I’m immensely proud of the finished product, which is something that I know people will enjoy years from now just as much as they can today. Ultimately, that was the intention: To create something that informs how we understand the stories that shaped Louisiana and the Deep South during the last decades of the 20th century. Without Benjaga, there is no way we could have done it.”
— Lamar White Jr, Publisher of The Bayou Brief