Legally Speaking Podcast

Send us a text This week on the Legally Speaking Podcast, our host Rob Hanna was honoured to be joined by the amazing Chrissie Wolfe! Chrissie is Founder of the hit YouTube Channel, 'Law and Broader', Solicitor of The Year 2019, Woman of The Year 2019, Legal Vlogger & Mentor, Lawtech Geek, Winner of Birmingham Young Professional of the Year, 2018 in Legal, Chair of Birmingham Junior Lawyers Division & day by day if that’s not enough a Solicitor at a Top 20 Law Firm in the UK! In th...

Send us a text This week on the Legally Speaking Podcast, our host Rob Hanna is joined by Harry Clark, the Founder and Host of popular legal podcast,‘More From Law’ and popular law blog ‘Harry Clark Law’. Harry is a future Trainee Solicitor at Top US firm, Baker McKenzie, who is passionate about helping aspiring lawyers with their career journeys. Harry’s podcast, ‘More From Law’ covers some of the latest developments in the legal industry with a variety of interviews, deep-dive analysis, com...

Send us a text This week on the Legally Speaking Podcast, our host Rob Hanna is joined by Sophie Warren, who runs the popular Instagram account, @LegallyRun, which she set up to document her challenge to complete a whopping 10 half marathons in 7 months to help raise money for charity! Sophie is an ambitious aspiring solicitor and London Young Lawyers Ambassador in Birmingham. Sophie shares her motivations behind @legallyrun and the importance of persistence in both personal & career-base...

Send us a text This week on the Legally Speaking Podcast, our host Rob Hanna is joined by Electra Japonas, Founder of The Law Boutique, which aims to transform in-house legal teams through legal design, legal operations, and innovation. They are on a journey with a clear vision of connecting Legal with the rest of the business. Electra shares her fascinating insights into legal operations, what they mean and how to really do them? Electra and her team are pioneering all things ‘legal design...

Send us a text We are starting Season 2 with a very important topic: mental health. This week, Rob Hanna is joined by Lewis Alexander Baxter, a Non-Executive Director, Public Speaker, Radio Presenter, aspiring legal professional and the Founder of The Blurred Line Group. Lewis talks about his own personal journey with mental health, and how this inspired him to create The Blurred Line Group – the UK’s first funding hub for mental health charities, projects and organizations across the UK. Le...

Send us a text This week on the Legally Speaking Podcast, our host Rob Hanna is joined by Eloise Skinner, a 2 PQE Corporate Tax Lawyer based in London, working for the leading Global US Law firm, Cleary Gottlieb. Eloise doesn’t stop there, she has authored and published the Junior Lawyer’s Handbook, was nominated at the Law Society Excellence Awards, does lots of public speaking, teaches yoga, and features on various podcasts all whilst working as a top Corporate Tax Lawyer. &n...

Send us a text This week on the Legally Speaking Podcast, our host Rob Hanna is joined by Samantha Treleaven, the Wellbeing Lawyer. Samantha is passionate about all things Wellbeing and focuses on this sector within the wider umbrella of Retail & Consumer. Specialist areas of her include Health & Fitness, Beauty & Wellness and Food & Drink (including Active Nutrition). Clients include: Sweaty Betty, Rapha Racing, WIT, Huel, and lots more. In this episode, we discuss: Samantha...

Send us a text This week Rob Hanna is finally joined by co-host, Deenum Gahbri! We are delighted to be joined by Sonia Janday, Senior Legal Counsel at Aviva Investors, & Co-Chair of Aviva Origins, A Mentor, A Diversity Champion Award Winner this year for In-house, Society of Asian Lawyers Committee Member & Asian Legal Awards Lead. In this episode, we discuss: Working closely with the Society of Asian Lawyers as a committee memberParalegalling in a civil and property litigation teamQ...

Send us a text This week on the Legally Speaking Podcast, our host Rob Hanna is joined by Mandeep Kaur Virdee. Mandeep has achieved a huge amount of success in her legal career to date. Mandeep qualified in 2011 and within just 8 years successfully runs her own law firm in Heart of the City of London. Today, Mandeep operates as the Managing Partner of KaurMaxwell, whilst managing family life having recently become a first-time Mother. Under Mandeep’s leadership, KaurMaxwell, has gone ...

Send us a text This week on the Legally Speaking Podcast, our host Rob Hanna is joined by Nathan Killick. Nathan is a highly knowledgable and impressive Legal IT Consultant at Sprout IT and Committee Member of the London Legal Networking Group. They enjoyed talking through all things Tech & Cyber Security specifically for law firms and wider legal focused businesses. Nathan highlights a number of key points law firms & chambers need to consider to ensure they can achi...