Legally Speaking Podcast

Send us a text Improving the courts, one clerkship at a time... Do you feel empowered in your role within the law industry to speak up and report when something is wrong? Particularly if you are working as a law clerk, do you feel it easy to be able to complain and report a Judge and their wrongdoings? This week on the Legally Speaking Podcast, our host Robert Hanna is chatting to Aliza Shatzman, President and Co-Founder of the Legal Accountability Project! Aliza is a passionate advocate fo...

Send us a text It is quite an achievement to say that you've founded an international charity that has worked with local communities in northern Uganda to enhance the lives of over 1000 war-affected individuals and formerly abducted children. It's even more impressive to be able to say that you've been a part of raising over £400,000 to support this too! Well, this week's guest has done *just* that! We've been chatting with multilingual lawyer, Shirah Mansaray. Shirah is the CEO of ‘I ...

Send us a text This week on the Legally Speaking Podcast, we're introducing a very special guest... Our host, Robert Hanna has been chatting with our sponsor's CEO, the one and only Jack Newton! As the CEO and Founder of Clio and a pioneer in cloud-based legal technology, Jack has ''spearheaded efforts to educate the legal community on the security, ethics, and privacy issues surrounding cloud computing, and has become a nationally recognised author and speaker on these topics''. Jack has s...

Send us a text From being shortlisted for the Rising Star Innovation Award in 2020, to winning Best Fundraising Lawyer in 2021, to now offering meetings in his office in the Metaverse... what can we expect next from the Co-Founder of an up-and-coming boutique law firm embracing the future of tech within the industry? This week we're super excited to be chatting to 'The Cap Lawyer', David Turney and boy have we managed to cram the juiciest of conversations and info into a 30-minute podcast e...

Send us a text You could say that leaving a secure and well-paid job to start your own law firm in the middle of a global pandemic is a little brave, huh? That's exactly what this week's guests Alistair and Shona Wells did and in this episode, they're sharing with us the highs, the lows, their experience as a whole and their learned lessons! Alistair and Shona are both qualified solicitors, having had impressive careers in the industry prior to starting their own law firm. Their mission is ...

Send us a text Finding a way to demystify the most challenging elements of growing a sustainable law practice? Here's what they didn't teach you in law school... 😉 This week, we had the absolute pleasure of chatting to premier coach, skills trainer and business development for attorneys keynote speaker, Steve Fretzin! Steve has devoted the last 18 years of his career to helping lawyers master their business goals so that they can flourish and go on to develop a successful law practice. As ...

Send us a text If you're not on social media these days, you're living in the dark ages, aren't you? Some say that the legal industry is a sector that still very much lives in the past and has a long way to go. Certainly from conversations we've had with previous guests, many people in the legal sector still shy away from using social media either from a professional or personal perspective. Well, not this week's guest! We've been chatting to Legal Industry Consultant, Chad Aboud. Chad is t...

Send us a text Democratising access to the law by making state trial court records and legal data more accessible is a necessary step in bringing greater transparency to the US judicial system... but why? This week, we're chatting to Nicole Clark. Nicole is the CEO and Co-Founder of Trellis, a comprehensive AI-powered state court research and analytics platform that focuses on providing insight into how specific legal issues are decided across counties and states... as well as much more! Be...

Send us a text Misconceptions, fear and lack of knowledge are common words we associate with the future of technology and even more so about artificial intelligence but should we be optimistic about the direction of AI and the purpose it can serve in law enforcement? This week we're chatting to Warren Distinguished Professor of Law and Director of the Center for Employment and Labour Policy at the University of San Diego, Orly Lobel. Orly has clerked at the Israeli Supreme Court and is a for...

Send us a text It is still a common misconception that you must have attended University and completed your LPC to be able to guarantee a job in law. There is no doubt that this may be the easiest route into the legal sector but it's not the ONLY way and this week's guest is telling us how she managed to become a Legal Executive via a different route... Gemma Adams works as a Legal Executive specialising in criminal law. It was not until 2011, when she obtained a role as a Legal Secretary, t...