In this episode of the Lawtrepreneur Briefing, Romesh speaks to Annette Choti from Law Quill.Graduated law school over two decades ago, Annette started her career as an investigator with the US federal government. Annette is now a consultant helping law firms strengthen their online presence using her unique approach to digital marketing. Our conversation today will focus on her insights about what law firms need to do to succeed in the digital economy and the practical measures lawyers can take to boost their online presence. 

Stephen Stanwood is an attorney in California focused on helping other lawyers solve trademark problems for their clients. In this conversation with Romesh Hettiarachchi, Stephen talks through the importance of Brand in legal practice, some ways solo / small firm lawyers can integrate Brand in their legal practice and why your happiness should influence how you grow your legal practice. Connect with Stephen Stanwood on LinkedIn.

In this episode of the Lawtrepreneur Briefing, Romesh speaks to Alexis Robertson, the director of diversity & inclusion for Foley & Lardner LLP. A recovering lawyer, this conversation with Alexis focuses on what its like being a first generation lawyer, the "second mountain" that first generation lawyers face early in their careers and some practical things law firms can do to foster diversity when hiring new lawyers and employees. Connect with Alexis on LinkedIn.

After practicing law in Australia for almost two decades, Lara Wentworth has built in the past three years a coaching and training practice aimed at helping lawyers thrive in legal practice. Lara’s focus in her practice is to help lawyers enhance their leadership skills and improve their mental health so they can perform and thrive in their careers and lives.In this dynamic conversation, Lara talks through her experience navigating the paradoxes imposed by legal culture and managing your mental health and cultivating your leadership abilities is so critical to being a modern lawyer.Connect with Lara on LinkedIn and on her website.Join the Lawtrepreneur Facebook Community to watch full videos of the interview and discuss this episode.

A recent graduate of Fordham Law in NYC, Hayley Leviashvili talks with Romesh Hettiarachchi about her challenges in finding meaningful experiences in niche areas of legal practice and how she pro-actively created the opportunities to overcome these barriers to advancing her career. Listen in as we talk through some opportunities for law students to navigate an uncertain future and the role that the gig economy may play in advancing their careers.Connect with Hayley on LinkedIn.Learn more about GigLaw.Join the Lawtrepreneur Facebook Community to watch full videos of the interview and discuss this episode.

After a successful corporate and academic teaching career, Dina Eisenberg decided to focus her energies teaching lawyers how to effectively delegate so that they are better able to build a law practice that fits the life they desire.On this episode of the Lawtrepreneur Briefing, Dina and Romesh talk candidly about some of the challenges of practicing as as a racialized lawyer, their frustrations with the legal profession when it comes to diversity and inclusion, how racialized lawyers can overcome these barriers to acheive career success and why delegation is critical to being a modern lawyer.Connect with Dina on LinkedInLearn more about Dina's Delegation Made Simple BootcampDiscover the Lawtrepreneur Community

What is the role that mentorship plays in career advancement of racialized lawyers? This is the question that Romesh explores in this conversation with Canadian immigration lawyer, Will Tao.Join us as we talk about the importance of increasing the racial diversity in the judiciary, why collecting data on race is so important to fostering a diverse profession and the steps that we all can take to ensure junior lawyers receive the support they need to advance in their legal careers.Connect with Will: LinkedInLearn more about the Lawtrepreneur Community: Lawtrepreneur Community

In this episode of the Lawtrepreneur Briefing, Romesh talks about how the Lawtrepreneur Briefing will change in response to the Coronavirus pandemic and the Black Lives Matter movement and why now more than ever it is critical to have access to the information, resources and support that law school never provided or taught to lawyers.

Rick Kabra is the President of CosmoLex, a web-based law practice management solution for law firms. With a doctorate in Electrical Engineering, Rick has nearly 15 years of experience working to help lawyers use technology to simply law firm operations. In this interview with Rick, Rick talks about why creating technology for law firms is very different from creating technology for other businesses, the three things lawyers should consider when integrating a practice management solution into their practices and why an understanding of how to use technology practically, effectively and in compliance with your legal obligations is critical to building a modern legal practice. Rick also talks about the events Cosmolex has in store for the Toronto legal community in November 2019. Learn more about Rick here: https://www.linkedin.com/in/rkabra1 You can also download Romesh's presentation on Strategic Legal Process Design here: https://lawtrp.link/slpd

What do you do if a fellow legal professional says something offensive or objectionable to a witness? What actions do you take especially if the witness is adverse in interest to your client? These are the questions Romesh struggled with first-hand after hearing a lawyer appear to ask a witness if he can speak English because his name was foreign. Romesh explores the impact objectionable comments make not only on the target of those comments but witnesses to the comment and the struggles he personally experienced trying to make decisions in response to those comments. You'll likely disagree with the decisions Romesh made. But given that there's no rule book for responding to these types of comments, Romesh is using this episode as an opportunity to learn what others would have done in response to this situation. #crowdsource