Filtering by Tag: issues: imposter syndrome

Episode 17 - NZLS President Kathryn Beck talks employment law, the future of New Zealand lawyers, and loving your work

May 08, 2017  /  Katie Cowan

Hello again beautiful listeners.  This episode I went to Auckland to sit down with the Law Society's current president, Kathryn Beck, who is also a partner at employment firm SBM Legal.  We had a delicious wide-ranging conversation about her career as an employment lawyer, her longstanding involvement in different parts of the Law Society, her vision for the best future for law in New Zealand, her advice to new lawyers, her thoughts on mental health for lawyers, and her joy and love for the practice of law.  It is always wonderful to watch someone who loves what they do, do what they do, and now you all get to listen along to that too.  There is so much in this discussion, feel free to take it in bits if need be, with breaks for refreshment etc. 

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categories / Guested, Senior lawyer
tags / area of practice: employment, mental health tools, issues: mental health, issues: gender diversity, issues: burnout, law society, issues: access to justice, issues: imposter syndrome, issues: getting your first job, issues: job-hunting, partnership, advice: love your work

Episode 10: Solicitor General Una Jagose QC talks Crown Law, the LGBT lawyer experience, and what lawyers look like.

January 22, 2017  /  Katie Cowan

Una Jagose QC, New Zealand's Solicitor General, sat down with me to talk about her career in the public sector and her thoughts on work and lawyering.  It was such a lovely chat, with so much delicious chunky wisdom and insight, and with such a tone of ease and fun, I keep tugging people on the sleeve and telling them to listen to it.  If you're reading this, take it as a virtual sleeve-tug and get to listening yourself. 

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categories / Senior lawyer
tags / area of practice: public sector, types of work: policy and regulatory, crown law, issues: imposter syndrome, issues: practice as a woman, issues: practising when LGBT-identified, issues: not fitting, issues: work life balance, working hours, advice: stare out the window, top down change

Episode 6: Robin talks second careers, mental health and the importance of morning tea - The New Lawyer Podcast

November 13, 2016  /  Katie Cowan

Well.  This was a rich and important episode.  I spoke with Robin, a now senior solicitor but former mental health practitioner about his career and the issue of mental health in the New Zealand legal profession (you can see why we ran long).  

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categories / Intermediate lawyer
tags / issues: imposter syndrome, advice: get a psychologist, issues: cultural differences, issues: mental health, issues: stigma, mature new lawyers, advice: talk to your employer, area of practice: litigation, issues: transfer to New Zealand, advice: receiving instructions, full service firm, top down change, advice: talk to your friends, issues: suicide, solicitor, second career lawyer, mental health tools

Episode 5: Justice Glazebrook talks gender diversity, how to respond to feedback and expectations of your new lawyer job - The New Lawyer Podcast

October 31, 2016  /  Katie Cowan

Well, what an episode.  Justice Glazebrook of New Zealand's Supreme Court was kind enough to sit down with me and talk in depth about several issues raised in the Pemberton Report for junior lawyers, confidence and imposter syndrome, gender bias and discrimination, and the expectation-vs-reality issue for new lawyers.  

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categories / Judiciary
tags / national firm, issues: imposter syndrome, issues: gender bias, issues: gender diversity, issues: stress management, issues: practice as a woman, advice: male allies, issues: transition from law school to practice, issues: expectations for first job, issues: lack of confidence, advice: mindsets for success, advice: feedback, advice: mentors, issues: work life balance, advice: stare out the window, advice: job change

Email your questions to katie@thenewlawyer.co.nz 

 

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