Filtering by Tag: advice: know yourself

Episode 19: Solicitor Chris talks the joy of innovation, lawyerly risk aversion, and alternative career paths

June 18, 2017  /  Katie Cowan

This episode was all about innovation in law, a topic I and my guest Chris get very excited about.  It includes a brainstorm on how to balance the need for innovation with good ol' lawyerly risk aversion.  In researching for this episode I came across a press release for a 2016 report on innovation in Australasia that includes the sentence, "The majority of Australasian law firms rate themselves as innovative but there is little evidence to support this claim...". However, it is not all bleak; below are some examples of lawyers already thinking differently and doing cool things to modernise how law is practised.  Again, I must emphasise my recommendation that all lawyers read the Marque Lawyers website in its wonderful entirety.  

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categories / Intermediate lawyer, Guested
tags / advice: when you don't know, advice: know yourself, issues: mistakes, issues: risk aversion, innovation, area of practice: im, area of practice: community law, solicitor, non-traditional career path, issues: access to justice, small firm

Episode 18: Julia Batchelor-Smith talks construction law, non-linear careers and hard core self care

June 04, 2017  /  Katie Cowan

In this episode I sat down with the lawyer self care guru herself, Julia Batchelor-Smith, to talk all things self care, balance and contentment (and nerd out about the Construction Contracts Act; apologies).  We covered some GREAT stuff, including non-linear careers, taking time out to do crazy always-wanted-to ventures, parenting and lawyering, microcredentialing (Katie learns a word), how to keep on top of stress, how to manage mistakes, financial literacy and the business of Spanx.

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categories / Guested, Senior lawyer
tags / area of practice: construction, issues: stress management, advice: receiving instructions, issues: part time practice, issues: parenting while lawyering, issues: not fitting, issues: values clashes, issues: work life balance, flexible working, issues: mistakes, advice: love your work, big firms, advice: know yourself, issues: self care

Episode 11: Clayton talks quarter-life crises, unorthodox career paths, and practising with depression

February 06, 2017  /  Katie Cowan

In this episode I speak to Clayton Carrick-Leslie about all sorts, but focusing on two key areas: (1) career paths and options, including part time work, inhouse counsel work and law-related management and leadership work, and (2) depression, suicide, quarterlife crises, and how to live and work amidst these things.  Clayton talks about his own experiences with depression and the impact of a friend's suicide at a Sydney law firm and why in his experience corporations have better cultures than law firms.  It was a fun and joyful chat, complete with impromptu brainstorming session about what to do when you're in acute distress at work, though of course the trigger warning goes (almost) without saying.

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categories / Guested, Ex-lawyer
tags / flexible working, issues: mental health, mental health tools, advice: experiment, area of practice: inhouse counsel, extra curriculars: comedy, advice: know yourself, issues: suicide

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