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A new podcast on the Thomson Reuters Institute Market Insights channel features a panel discussion with two litigators from the law firm Garfunkel Wild, moderated by Thomson Reuters Practical Law, around the legal ramifications and logistics of returning to the office.

A new podcast on the Thomson Reuters Institute Market Insights channel features a conversation with Lisa Hart Shepherd, Vice President of Research & Advisory Services and Founder of Acritas, a unit of Thomson Reuters about the 4th annual global study, the Acritas Stellar Performance: A Survey of Stand-out Talent Report 2020.

A new podcast on the Thomson Reuters Institute Market Insights channel features a conversation with Andy Kassner and Tom Froehle, the co-managing partners of Faegre Drinker. In the podcast, the pair talk about why the firms felt this was the right time for a merger, and what reality looks like now amid the rapid changes in the legal market.

A new podcast on the Thomson Reuters Institute Market Insights channel features a conversation with Gail Gottehrer, Principal and Founder of the Law Office of Gail Gottehrer. Gottehrer will discuss issues involved in returning to work after the pandemic and what employers and employees can expect. Joining Gottehrer will be Gina Jurva, attorney and manager of enterprise content for corporate counsel and government at Thomson Reuters.

In a new white paper, 5 Steps to Proactively Seek Feedback and Receive it Well, co-authored by Ann Jenrette-Thomas, Chief Diversity and Inclusion Officer at Stinson, discusses some of the hardships lawyers face receiving and learning from feedback. Both the white paper and this podcast were produced by Thomson Reuters Next Gen LoC's initiative. This podcasts, featuring Jenrette-Thomas and Dr. Larry Richard, CEO of Lawyer Brain; and Betsy Miller and Tory Nugent, co-chairs of the public client practice at the law firm Cohen Milstein, discusses the context of this new white paper and how lawyers can overcome these challenges.

What does courage and authenticity have to do with leading in an uncertain environment? How can colleagues support their Asian Pacific American (APA) peers who may be feeling uneasy about the xenophobia and racism that has flared since the outbreak of the Covid-19 pandemic? More importantly, how can legal employers show that the societal disparities outside of the workplace matter to them, their organizations, and their employees. In a new podcast in the Thomson Reuters Institute Market Insights channel, Kori Carew, chief inclusion & diversity officer at Seyfarth Shaw, discuss all of these topics with Natalie Runyon, director of enterprise content for talent, inclusion and culture at Thomson Reuters.

The Legal Executive Institute, in conjunction with the broader Thomson Reuters Institute, is pleased to announce that we are launching our new podcast channel, Thomson Reuters Market Insights. Featuring podcasts aimed at tax, compliance, and legal professionals, this new channel will focus on bringing listeners engaging interviews and content from thought leaders across a variety of disciplines.

A new podcast discusses the role of volunteer leadership for professional women of color, how such leadership roles can separate them from their peers, and the value of taking ownership of your career and development and the initiative to find unique opportunities that align to career goals.

In this podcast, Conway Ekpo, an in-house lawyer at a Wall Street bank, and Erika Stallings, an entertainment lawyer, discuss how they and 20 other seasoned black lawyers — consisting of partners, mid-level and senior associates, and in-house attorneys — realized they needed to use their knowledge and expertise to address the dearth of black lawyers in the legal industry. To address this gap, Ekpo and Stallings and a few others founded the Black BigLaw Pipeline (BBP) to provide younger attorneys with the skills and training needed to navigate Big Law and develop meaningful relationships that will benefit them in the long-term.

Niki Khoshzamir, CEO of Practice Pro, and David Morrow, start-up adviser for emerging industries, both transitioned from practicing lawyers into business roles within the last few years. During the recent Next Gen Leadership: Advancing Lawyers of Color Ask-a-Mentor session, the pair sat down with participants from the community of lawyers of color to share their stories of how they made the transition. In this podcast episode, Khoshzamir and Morrow discuss details of the actions they took before, during, and after they made switch to their business roles. They also highlight how they prepared mentally to deal with the lean years of going from making a good salary as a practicing lawyer to making barely enough money to pay their bills. They also share their strategies for how they paid back some or all of their student loans before they left their full-time jobs.