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As April ushers in a new season, it’s the perfect time to reflect on our career journeys and seek inspiration for the road ahead. On our podcast, Law Firm ILN-telligence, we often delve into the pivotal lessons learned by legal professionals throughout their careers. With spring in full swing, I’m excited to share some of these invaluable insights to energize and motivate you on your professional climb. Join me as we explore essential career lessons that every lawyer should embrace for success in the legal world.
As the legal landscape evolves, mastering soft skills alongside legal expertise is crucial for success. While the industry continues to change, certain foundational skills remain essential for lawyers at every career stage.
As I mentioned last week, I planned to update some of my older posts to ensure that they’re still relevant for a modern audience (I **wanted** to write a post to celebrate fifteen years of blogging this week, but the time slipped away from me, so stay tuned for that – better late than never, right?).
Over the last few years, we have offered a program to our young lawyers, which is an introduction to the ILN that includes networking opportunities, business development, and presentations on international business.
We also like to discuss specific topics that our young lawyers have identified as relevant to them – to that end, I’ll be sharing some of those topics here on Zen for you, starting with our first one, personal branding.
Tamsin Kaplan is a shareholder, employment lawyer, and business litigator with Davis Malm, the ILN’s member firm for Massachusetts. In this episode, Lindsay and Tamsin discuss the importance of corporate housekeeping for employment law, what makes having an employment lawyer on your side as a business so essential, and her very hidden talent!
You can listen to the podcast here, or we’ve provided a transcript of the highlights below.
This week, I was joined by Geraldine Spiteri, a partner from Acumum Legal & Advisory, who specializes in maritime and aviation law, as well as John Navarro, the firm’s associate, who is a corporate lawyer. They discuss trends of compliance and sustainability, why both maritime and aviation are such hot fields at the moment, and some other emerging practices in Malta.
You can listen to the podcast here, or we’ve provided a transcript of the highlights below.
Remember the days when you did good work and new clients came in and you didn’t have fancy words for all of your business development activities?
Well, those days are long gone.
But bear with me, we’re not diving into a jargon-filled abyss.
One of the things I like to do is go through old posts of mine to see if there may be some utility in updating them for the current market. What’s the saying? Everything old is new again. And that always seems to be the case – even with content!
But today, I felt like talking about something brand new. So I asked my handy assistant, ChatGPT (the only assistant I can afford at the moment), what I should talk about for leadership in the legal industry. Its reply was this:
Henrique Lopes is a partner at KLA Advogados, the ILN’s member firm for Brazil. In this episode, he and Lindsay focus on the generational approaches to work post-pandemic and what aspects of the legal industry have remained the same, the current market in Brazil for clients, and why it’s so important to be a well-integrated firm in today’s marketplace.
You can listen to the podcast here, or we’ve provided a transcript of the highlights below.
Ziad Salloum is a partner with Salloum & Partners, an Emirati law firm and a member of the International Lawyers Network. In this episode, Lindsay and Ziad chat about the current and very diverse state of the market in the Emirates, what it’s like to run a law firm when you hold yourself to an extremely high standard, and the best way that Ziad has discovered to quiet his mind.
You can listen to the podcast here, or we’ve provided a transcript of the highlights below.
Let’s talk about content marketing. Wait, don’t roll your eyes just yet. We get it – it might sound like marketing mumbo-jumbo. But stick around, because we’re breaking it down into bite-sized, actionable steps that busy lawyers can actually use.