Many of us lawyers didn't have it all figured out from the start. It takes time to find your way in your legal profession. This podcast sheds light on some of the challenges that lawyers face in the earliest part of building their careers. Each week, our host, Anjie Vichayanonda, sits down with members of the legal profession, to chat about the paths they took to get where they are now, including the times they stumbled, the times they fell, and the times they needed a little help. To encourage candor, the attorney guests remain nameless, but their stories are laid bare for your consideration. From time to time, Anjie invites prospective and current law students to join the show as a guest host so that they can practice their interviewing skills and connect with lawyers.
This podcast is produced by Leg Up Legal, which provides a mentoring mobile app and curriculum to connect prospective law students to attorney mentors and teaches them how to build their first professional relationships. For more information about Leg Up Legal, please visit: www.leguplegal.com.
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Mar 2, 2021
This week's guest gets up close and personal with us about the struggles of balancing her career with an abusive relationship, divorce, and a professional conflict at work. She was able to gain tons of skills early on in her career from sampling many different in-house roles, but her greatest challenges came from...
Feb 23, 2021
Today's guest had two major surprises while attending Columbia Law School. Specifically, she found out that she was pregnant with twins in her 2L year. Thankfully, she had a strong support system of family and friends that helped her finish law school on time and land a job in BigLaw in litigation. She managed to...
Feb 12, 2021
We are so excited to kick off Season 2 of The Law Lives Project! Our very first guest of the season is an attorney who has truly charted her own path focused on sports and entertainment law. She managed to snag several sports-related internships in law school, despite struggling with several personal challenges. Early...
Nov 13, 2020
This week, Anjie chats with a young lawyer who practices intellectual property law with a solo practitioner, and together they help small business owners. Our guest shares some details about his challenges of keeping up with the curve in law school while having dyslexia, and dealing with the learning disability during...
Nov 6, 2020
Our guest this week is a paralegal, who is training to be an attorney. We'll discuss her path from going to law school, to working as a paralegal. We'll also touch on how she decided to go into personal injury...