Friends In Law Podcast
Graduating from an LLB (or any other degree for that matter) doesn't come with a manual on how to reach the heights of professional success.
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You're a Good Lawyer, That Doesn't Mean You're a Good Leader (opens the original)
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She reached the exact job most lawyers are still chasing, Head of Legal for Asia Pacific at a global software company, and walked away from it in under two years. Mel started as a graduate lawyer at Corrs Chambers Westgarth with no clerkship and an average transcript, then moved in-house through Brisbane Airport Corporation and over a decade scaling two fast-growing tech companies, before leaving corporate law altogether to build Counsel Media and The Counsel Podcast full time. The throughline i
You Don't Have to Explain Your Business to Me — Martin Richardson, Legal Director, Risk Collective (opens the original)
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Martin Richardson spent over a decade in-house: Legal Counsel at BlueScope Steel, then General Counsel roles at AWB, Adecco and Sodexo, before walking away to build a legal practice from scratch around a single industry: recruitment. In this episode, Martin unpacks why he bet an entire brand on one niche, the KPI he was handed at BlueScope that had nothing to do with billable hours, and the moment he got physically confronted at a set of sale yards over a misunderstood client visit. We talk abou
Unencumbered by Expertise — Nadia Bromley, CEO, Women's Legal Service Queensland (opens the original)
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What happens when your career refuses to follow a straight line? Nadia Bromley never met a lawyer before enrolling in law school, and her path since has taken her from a decade in criminal law at Legal Aid, into HR, into leading a 300-person IT team with no technical background, into general counsel, and eventually to CEO of Women's Legal Service Queensland, an organisation she's grown from $6 million to $14 million in four years. In this episode, Nadia talks candidly about missing out on a CEO
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