🎙 Episode #043 & #044 + 40,000 Downloads

👋🏻 Happy Monday and Happy Belated Thanksgiving (and Hanukkah to those who celebrate) from Washington, D.C.!

Apologies for not sending this sooner but last week I published not one, but two new episodes.

Episode #043 is a mini-episode where I speak with Chrystal Mauro about the newly founded Legal Mentor Network where she serves as Executive Director (and I sit on the Board). The Legal Mentor Network is a new, non-profit, FREE mentorship program connecting law students and recently barred attorneys to more senior members of our profession. Like the How I Lawyer Podcast, the Legal Mentor Network seeks to provide alternative channels for the informal networking that we know is so important to the future of our profession especially during such challenging times. 

Episode #044 is a conversation with Jeremy Siegel who is the Vice President for Compliance & Legal Risk at Eaze which is one of the largest cannabis delivery services in the country. Prior to joining Eaze, Jeremy worked as a litigation attorney, e-discovery project manager, and law clerk to Magistrate Judge John Facciola on the District Court for the District of Columbia and for Judge Richard Eaton on the United States Court of International Trade. 

In our conversation we discuss his twisting and turning path to working in the cannabis industry, graduating law school in the middle of the financial crisis and finding a fulfilling career, the exciting part of working in an industry where the law is being written every single day, the connections between lawyering and lobbying in this highly regulated space, the joys (and challenges) of being a lawyer in a start up environment, finding ways to support not just the industry but also respond to the historical responses to cannabis including the war on drugs, the future of lawyers in the fast-growing cannabis community, and the importance of connecting to people in any work that you do. 

I am also excited to share the news that over the weekend the podcast broke 40,000 downloads. When I started the podcast just under a year ago I could not imagine that! I am so grateful to YOU for the support. I promise there are lots of new interviews and a few exciting collaborations to come in 2022 . . .

As always, if you have any questions or suggestions for the podcast you can just respond to this e-mail. And if you liked the episode and can share the podcast with a family/friend/colleague and/or leave a review on iTunes I’d appreciate it.

See you next week,

Jonah