In this episode I have the pleasure of speaking with Sabrine Makkes, who is the founder of Envizion Consulting LLC and is former Board member and Chair of the Governance Committee - Women in Ethics and Compliance Global, and currently board member at the middle east and Africa compliance association. Sabrine is a Tunisian qualified lawyer with 16 years of experience in private practice and in senior legal and compliance roles, working for Fortune 500 Tech companies covering the MEA region Her consultancy business Envizion Consulting focuses on solutions that leverage new tech capabilities such as immersive tech and the Metaverse.

In this episode we have the pleasure of speaking with Jayshree Gupta, who is the Founding Partner and Managing Director at THINC, based in Dubai. She’s a dual qualified advocate and solicitor (England and India) and has been practicing for 25 years with global law firms. She has unrivalled experience in the Gulf advising on a range of corporate and commercial matters. Jayshree is an established member of the Gulf community and one of the most influential female lawyers in the region who has appeared on power lists including that of Arabian Business. We talk about the challenges in running your own law firm, how law firms should change their approach in the future and lessons learned from clients. 

Building Your Practice Episode 20 with Siddhanth Kochhar who is Principle Associate at Kaderni and Company Legal Consultants in Dubai. Siddhanth is part the team that has been instrumental in setting up the full service boutique law firm ad he is primarily involved with disputes before the DIFC and ADGM Courts, arbitration under the DIAC, DIFC-LCIA and ICC Rules and he also provide corporate commercial support.

In the episode I am speaking with Will Eke, who is the Vice President of Sales at Passle which is a powerful knowledge sharing platform for the professional services sector. Will shares his insights on thought leadership and what it really is and how it can help firms as well as individuals to build a strong brand. 

Kaushik & Ethan, both experts in online marketing for law firms, share their experience building a business and also talk about how lawyers and law firms can take advantage of online marketing strategies. We talk about the importance of the willingness to learn new skills and try out new marketing tools, that work for your business in order to help you grow the business. 

In this episode I am speaking with Catherine Hyde, founder or HooperHyde. Catherine has worked in the legal profession since 2004 at large corporate firms. acted for all types of clients from individuals to small enterprises and multi national corporations and in 2018 she changed her direction…. We will talk about her journey from working in private practice to being self-employed and now being a founder of law firm HooperHyde.  

Yosr Hamza is Director of Legal Affairs at Gartner Middle East. With Yosr’s experience in private practice as well as in-house this will make for a very interesting podcast episode as we discuss how to be successful at an in-house legal role and how the role of the legal decision maker has changed from a purely legal advisor to a business advisor role. 

In this episode I have the pleasure speaking with Scott Lochhead, Senior Associate in the construction and infrastructure team at Bell Gully, New Zealand’s leading law firm (www.bellgully.com). Before returning to New Zealand at the end of last year, Scott spent almost eight years working for Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer, where he advised on major projects in the Middle East, Africa and Asia. During his time with Freshfields, Scott participated in client secondments in Korea and Japan, so has some unique insights to offer between his experience of working as a ‘private practice’ lawyer, and being seconded to ‘in-house’ legal teams.

Abhijit Joshi, Founder and Managing Partner at Veritas Legal in India speaks with me about his experience in building lasting relationships, his belief and success in collaboration and that success is not achieved just by going for big mile stones, but that it rather is an aggregation of smaller successes. 

In this episode I have the pleasure speaking with Arjun Ahluwalia and Osman Aboubakr, co-founders at Argentum Law, a global legal industry disruptor offering general counsel and transactional services. We talk about setting up a business, shifting from being employed to being entrepreneurs, how to be successful at business development, Argentum Law's success stories and tips for building a business or practice.  www.argentumlaw.com