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Into the lion’s den

pencer Aronfeld is on a mission to bring a little bit of Al Franken to the land of Rush Limbaugh.

The Coral Gables personal injury attorney hit the airwaves of AM station WKAT 1360 last month with his show “Ask the Lawyer.” The show’s seemingly innocuous title masks Aronfeld’s intent to deal a death blow to the heart of red state America.

Listeners likely find it jarring that Aronfeld’s hour of liberal lawyer diatribes follows a show that features uber conservative pundit William Bennett.

But Aronfeld, who fancies himself the Howard Stern of legal radio, welcomes verbal tussles on his show, as long as callers don’t stoop to dirty words.

“It’s like my personal crusade,” he said. “I’m inviting controversy.”

Controversy accepted the invitation two weeks ago when Aronfeld hosted Amy Ronner, St. Thomas University law professor and author of “Homophobia and the Law.”

“We had a lot of angry callers,” Aronfeld said. “I couldn’t put them all on the air, because we don’t allow profanity.”

The show already has run afoul of at least one sponsor, whom Aronfeld declined to name. He said only that the sponsor was a Coral Gables restaurant whose owners were surprised that the show was more than legal questions and answers.

Ronner appeared on the second broadcast. The inaugural guest was nationally prominent Miami defense attorney Roy Black.

Aronfeld said the show was inspired by a desire to educate conservatives about the liberal side of legal issues, such as tort relief, insurance law and gay rights. He hopes to give a boost to the besmirched image of personal injury attorneys.

“Most people perceive us to be cigar-smoking, $2,000-suit wearing people who don’t care about anyone else,” he said. “I don’t mean any disrespect to the Academy of Florida Trial Lawyers and [the American Trial Lawyers Association], but what they’re doing doesn’t seem to be working.”

Jan Schlichtmann, of “A Civil Action” fame, was scheduled for the next show, which has a Saturday, 5 p.m. time slot. He will be followed by New York attorney Barry Scheck of the Innocence Project.

Aronfeld’s dream guests include U.S. Chief Justice William Rehnquist and Thomas Mesereau Jr., defense attorney in Michael Jackson’s child molestation trial.

His ultimate hope is national syndication, so he can spread his message deeper into the conservative hinterlands of America.

“Someone in Wichita, Kan., needs to hear the other side of the coin,” he said, “because all they’re listening to now is Rush Limbaugh and Sean Hannity.”

— Jessica M. Walker
 

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