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John is joined by Temi Omilabu, an associate in Quinn Emanuel’s New York office.  They discuss her remarkable journey from her childhood in Lagos, Nigeria, to becoming a trial lawyer at Quinn Emanuel, including the adjustments she had to make moving from Lagos to first Florida then Texas, her years at Case Western University where she earned her Master’s degree in Bioethics and her work after graduating for two global health-focused nonprofits.  They also discuss her love of advocacy and storytelling that led her to law school, her internship in the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office and her post-law school fellowship in the General Counsel’s Office at Yale.  Finally, they discuss how Temi’s interest in litigation lead her to Quinn Emanuel’s New York office,  where she immediately started working on depositions and on multi-district litigation and went to trial in a pro bono case within her first year with the firm.

Podcast Link: Law-disrupted.fm
Host: John B. Quinn
Producer: Alexis Hyde
Music and Editing by: Alexander Rossi

The UK's First Non-Binary Barrister Listed as 'Mx' by Chambers.

This week we're super excited to be chatting with Mx Oscar Davies, a non-binary barrister and passionate advocate for LGBTQ+ rights and inclusion. Oscar shares their insights into the legal profession, the challenges faced by non-binary individuals, and the importance of creating an inclusive legal system.

Davies has made significant contributions to the LGBTQ+ community by providing pro bono legal advice and representation. Their dedication to supporting members of the public who lack the means to access legal services has changed lives. 

𝐒𝐨, 𝐰𝐡𝐲 𝐬𝐡𝐨𝐮𝐥𝐝 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐛𝐞 𝐥𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐧𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐢𝐧?

You can catch Rob and Mx Oscar Davies talking about:

• The need for substantive legal recognition and protection for non-binary people.
• The need for greater diversity, equity, and representation in legal careers and the challenges that LGBTQ+ individuals may encounter.
• Oscar shares insights into their pro bono work and their role as a mentor at Bridge the Bar.
• And the importance of networking, mentoring, and creating spaces for LGBTQ+ individuals pursuing careers in law.

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Each summer, law firms around the country host summer associates who are aspiring lawyers seeking to experience what it is like to work in a firm. In this episode, five of our summer associates introduce themselves and discuss the key factors that led them to join Baker Donelson as a summer associate, among other topics. Join us for an engaging discussion that allows us to reflect on various perspectives of workplace culture and the effect it can have on the hiring process. 

Our Hosts this Week:
Nakimuli Davis-Primer, Shareholder at Baker Donelson
Tenia Clayton, Associate at Baker Donelson

Special Co-Hosts:
Iyana Arrington, Summer Associate in the Baltimore office at Baker Donelson
Amearah Elsamadicy, Summer Associate in the Nashville office at Baker Donelson
Nick Fowler, Summer Associate in the Knoxville and Nashville offices at Baker Donelson
Brandee Permenter, Summer Associate in the Fort Lauderdale office at Baker Donelson
Kayla Pfeifer, Summer Associate in the Atlanta office at Baker Donelson

Do you have a topic or idea that you would like to hear more about?  Send us an email!

Meet Virginia Robin: As a reformed lawyer, Virginia Robin worked for 25 years in a profession that solved problems using judgement. Yet, she discovered that it was judgement itself that created our problems. :) Ten years of study and working in the field of consciousness and yoga showed her that when we eliminate judgement from out lives, our concerns disappear and our life changes.
An accredited meditator, peace consultant and artist, she now lives her life in paradise, as she says, on Australia's Sunshine Coast.

In this episode she shares with you how to maintain peace by following natural law and what she learned from an "angry marriage", which she left after 30 years.

Do let us know what your take-aways are!

You can connect to my wonderful guest and find all her links via this page: https://www.flowcode.com/page/virginiarobin

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Jazmen Jafar left her law career behind when she discovered the website OnlyFans. Now, as a self-described sex worker, Jazmen says she’s happy and living her best life.

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An astro update for the full moon and eclipse on 19 November by our in-house astrologer and former lawyer, Laurel O'Sullivan

The November full moon is a powerful lunar eclipse with supercharged energy. Eclipses are like portals offering the opportunity for transformation  - an opportunity to get back on purpose and on our path to fulfilling our goals and dreams. Full moons are always about beginnings and endings, so together there's a potent collaboration. The timing of this lunar eclipse at the end of a challenging year and time in general is about reclaiming your power  and self reliance. Tune in for more!

Helpful links + contacts

• Laurel’s website:www.laurelosullivan.com
• Legally Different's email: hello@legallydifferent
• Legally Different's  Instagram

Elizabeth Broderick AO, Chair-Rapporteur of the UN Working Group on Discrimination against Women and Girls, the longest serving Sex Discrimination Commissioner (2007-2015) in Australia as well as former partner and board member at Ashurst, reflects on her exceptional career and her decision to move from Law to focus on gender equality.

In this special episode, released on International Women’s Day 2021, Paul Jenkins, Global Managing Partner at Ashurst, speaks to Elizabeth about her time at Ashurst, founding the Champions of Change Coalition, her work with the UN and what drives her to continue to work for change and her unwavering commitment to gender equality globally.

Discover more from ESG Matters @ Ashurst by visiting ashurst.com/podcasts

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Episode Notes

What an enlightening conversation with Vicki Prais. Having taken a commercial legal career path, my lens on  the human rights legal sphere is rather limited, however, it's such an important area as human rights impact us all at a personal level. So, I loved speaking with Vicki about her career path and various human rights issues - it was incredibly thought provoking.  

Vicki Prais is a human rights lawyer, podcaster, writer and mentor. We chatted about everything from current and topical human rights issues impacting the world right now (including freedom of expression and bodily autonomy) to Vicki’s podcast “The Passion Factor” which helps those navigating a career in human rights.

It was so interesting to hear about Vicki’s career in human rights and the impactful work she has been involved which is centred around dignity behind bars, torture prevention, prisoners’ rights and prison reform. “London is my home but the world is my workplace” captures the spirit and international reach of Vicki’s work so well, which has taken her working on a myriad of projects from Kosovo to Geneva.

We dived into restrictions on freedom of speech and expression in the context of a report that Vicki is working on at the moment relating to creatives and academics in Belarus and how censorship is playing out at a wider global level. 

I was particularly curious to find out, via a human rights lens, the issues around the vaccine roll out and where rights to medical freedom and bodily autonomy sit amongst any attempt to make this mandatory.

Finally, I love how Vicki explained that being a lawyer “plus” is what makes her Legally Different - a lawyer plus....a podcaster, mentor and writer. There certainly seems to be movement towards the “lawyer plus”, which I believe is healthy in order to grow beyond singular labels, and Vicki is such an inspiring example of this!

In this episode we cover:-

• Vicki’s path into law and a human rights career
  • Coming from a family of lawyers and having a passion for individual civil liberties
  • Volunteering at a prison creche whilst at University
  • International experience in Geneva with human rights organisations helping the UN
  • A masters in human rights and civil liberties.
  • Qualifying as a solicitor and working in immigration and asylum law
• Current legal career 
  • Going solo - 24 years in Vicki craved autonomy and decided to be her own boss in 2019 August and is now an independent human rights consultant
  • Key areas – dignity behind bars, torture prevention, prisoners rights and prison reform
  • Current work – ‘typical’ day / week (although there’s no such things as typical human rights)
  • Current interesting  project – a report on ill treatment of creatives and academics in Belarus
  • Vicki’s proudest work moment
• Current human rights issues
  • Freedom of speech / expression – Belarus and beyond
  • Issues around the current pandemic
  • Vaccine roll out and the human rights stance on making it mandatory
• Non-lawyer projects + passions
  • Writing a monthly column for Comment Central
  • Vicki’s podcast “The Passion Factor”
  • Mentorship – supporting young professionals
• Personal 
  • Mental and emotional health when doing tough work focusing on human lives
  • The concept of “proper selfishness”
  • What Vicki would tell her younger self if she could have a chat with her!
  • Why Vicki is Legally Different

CONTACT INFO + LINKS

Vicki's website

Vicki's Twitter

Vicki's LinkedIn

Legally Different:-

• Instagram:@legallydifferent 
• Email: hello@legallydifferent.com

Thank you for tuning in!

Lauren 

Louise hit the heights of a legal career that many desire; working for a Magic Circle law firm. However, it soon became clear to Louise that that way of working  wasn't a high for her at all and it proved to be pivotal in hitting her "rock bottom". It was that low which actually paved the way for a new path for Louise when doors serendipitously opened during her recovery phase which led her  back into one of her childhood passions; music.  My favourite part of this journey is when Louise takes a temp job at HMV - hell yehhh! Not one to sit on the side lines and do things by halves, Louise has cultivated a freelance career in the music and radio world which has seen her working across BBC Radio with the likes ofJo Whiley, Lauren Laverne and Annie Mac, working for ABC radio in Australia, being a music journalist for BBC Radio 6, producing and presenting her own radio show (The Flip Side for Reform Radio) and  producing numerous podcasts including Annie Mac's! Need I go on...

Louise describes herself as a creative go-getter, which I totally agree with! She's got such a fire in her, can make sh*t happen AND she's also soooooo creative! This is one of the many reasons why she's legally different to me.

In this episode we cover:-

• Louise's path into law - humble northern beginnings to a top global law firm.
• The highs of trainee lawyer life, including a secondment to Paris.
• Mental health
  • feeling deeply low and not knowing what was wrong
  • open shares around tears before work and in the office toilets
  • pressures of a Magic Circle firm including expectations of doing 'all nighters'
• Hitting "rock bottom" with  depression and a break down:-
  • leaving London and entering the recovery phase
  • feelings during the “low period”
  • finding purpose and igniting inner passion- via a temp job at HMV (this is one of my fave convos - deep insights into the  'simplicity' of this job but the power it had in 'saving' Louise and igniting her spark for life again).
• Doors start to open, work experience at Radio Cumbria, shadowing Jo Wiley and working for the BBC in London.
• Living / working in Australia.
• Diving into Louise's current freelance work in the audio + music world (including being Annie Mac's podcast producer).
• Finding law again, working for Ignition law on an agile / flexible basis and balancing this with the creative  audio work.
• The meaning of 'labels' we give ourselves (such an interesting convo around that!)
• What Louise would tell the earlier version of herself if she could have a chat with her.
• Why Louise is Legally Different.

CONTACT INFO + LINKS

You can find Louise's website here and connect with her via Instagram here.

Legally Different:-

• Instagram:@legallydifferent 
• Email: hello@legallydifferent.com

Thanks for tuning in!

Lauren 

Meet Alan Chan, the General Counsel of a large investment company, a talented blog writer and a loving family guy. The aptly named “Candid Daddy” is Alan’s real, educational, hilarious and deep blog about family life. 

In this conversation, Alan shares about his path to becoming a GC and a number of personal life matters. We have frank chats about Alan’s working class beginnings from brave + hardworking immigrant Chinese parents to fatherhood, including balancing work + family life and the differing characters of his children (nicknamed The Pioneer, The Wrecking Ball + the Allergy Baby – say no more), plus deep discussions around the grief process following the recent loss of Alan’s father.

In this episode we cover:-

• The beginnings - coming from hardworking, Chinese immigrant parents.
• Path into law – from University “through the usual sausage machine” and qualifying into corporate.
• Alan’s pivot period and his thought process which led him into an in-house role with a PLC.
• Further changes leading to his General Counsel role at a large investment company.
• The birth of the Candid Daddy blog - no pun intended ;-)
• Balancing a busy family life with being a General Counsel.
• Dealing with food intolerances in a young child.
• The uniqueness of childrens' characters and nurturing appreciation + non-materialism.
• Travelling to Hong Kong April 2020 – experience in 2 week quarantine.
• The death of Alan’s father and the grief process.
• Chinese New Year – what 2021 holds!......
• What advice Alan would give to the mini Alan Chan if he could turn back the clock.

CONTACT INFO + LINKS

Candid Daddy:-

Make sure you check out the Candid Daddy blog here. It’s definitely worth a read – be ready and laugh out loud, cry and anything in between! The instagram page can be found here.

Legally Different:-

• Instagram:@legallydifferent 
• Email: hello@legallydifferent.com

Thanks for tuning in!

Lauren 

Melissa Vanzant-Birch met a handsome stranger in a Boston Starbucks when she was a law student; just as if Hollywood screenwriters had scripted it, that chance meeting changed everything.

Today Melissa is a mom of two little Brits with a thriving London legal career far different from the one she imagined as an undergrad in Chapel Hill.

We discuss the indignity of our children correcting our pronunciation of words like zebra and tomato (or anything, quite frankly), the differences between American and British maternity experiences, her children's special requests of family members back home (spoiler alert: it's Cheez-Its and goldfish), our mutual desperation for the next generation to enjoy mashed potatoes as much as we do, and whether or not her legal career requires her to wear a powdered wig.

You can find Melissa on Instagram at @MVBinEngland. 

Thanks for being here, y'all! I'd love your thoughts, questions, ideas, and everything in between. You can find me at @ButNotAllAtOnce on social media or ButNotAllAtOnce.com.

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In this episode, Karen Eisen, Dean of Career and Professional Development at Brooklyn Law School shares tips on securing a job during your 2L summer. She explains the limited reach of On-Campus Interviews (OCI) and gives tips for those who haven't found a summer position once OCI week has finished. She shares that the bulk of legal employers don't know their hiring needs until winter or spring, the time in which 90% of law students find their second summer position. Dean Eisen also shares her opinion on the benefits and pitfalls of recruitment season for students who transfer after their 1L year. This podcast is essential for all 1L and 2L students as well as professors who want the inside scoop on the advice students get from career services. 

In this episode, Mimi Rocah, Pace Law's Distinguished Fellow in Criminal Justice and NBC/MSNBC Legal Analyst shares career advice. While her journey is particular to a career in federal prosecution, Prof. Rocah's wisdom is valuable to anyone building a law career. She highlights the importance of finding a good mentor, the value that life experience can bring to future employers and the notion that one job can lead to an unexpected next job. This episode is incredibly relevant to anyone considering pursuing a career in the law and particularly useful to those in the middle of a legal job search or interested in changing law careers.