The Lawyer Stories Podcast Episode 222 features Jay Kobak, CEO & Co-Founder at 5 Star Legal Funding, LLC based out of New York.  Jay shares with us that he spent many years in the financial industry offering investment advice to attorneys.  While getting to know these attorneys he heard their frustrations and disappointments regarding their clients’ legal funding issues.  Jay recounts the story of sitting down for a meal with twenty of the top trial attorneys in New York City to figure out how he could make a different in the legal funding industry.  He later went on to assist those attorneys’ clients with their funding needs!  5 Star Legal Funding offers a non-compounding, low cost and lawyer friendly product.  Jay is a passionate and affable individual and tells us that regarding the employees at 5 Star Legal Funding, “Everybody is somebody.”  Jay will go above and beyond to help friends, family, or someone in need.