🎙#085: Helen Wan - Media Lawyer Turned Novelist, Author of The Partner Track (Now a Netflix Series)
🎙#085: Helen Wan - Media Lawyer Turned Novelist, Author of The Partner Track (Now a Netflix Series)
👋🏻 Welcome back to the How I Lawyer Podcast!
🎙This Week's Episode
This week I spoke with Helen Wan who is an author, speaker, and diversity and inclusion consultant who previously worked as a corporate, media, and intellectual property lawyer at law firms and in-house. She is best known as the author of the book The Partner Track which was recently turned into an original TV series on Netflix (if you haven't, go watch it now!)
Helen was born in California and raised in Northern Virginia. She is a graduate of Amherst College, UVA Law, and my alma mater Thomas Jefferson High School for Science & Technology.
In our conversation we discuss her path from being in the law to writing about it, the real life foundations of the fictional world she created in The Partner Track, the similarities and differences between the life of a novelist and the life of a lawyer, the ways in which her fictional work seeks to shed light on the shortcomings of our profession, the path from novel to Netflix Original Series, and her views on how to have meaningful and productive conversations about difficult subjects like race in professional spaces.
🎙Listen Now: Helen Wan
🤠 How I Lawyer On The Road to Nashville
I am pleased to share that I just returned from my first How I Lawyer Podcast trip! Thanks to Clio, I was able to attend ClioCon in Nashville, Tennessee earlier this week where I was able to conduct about a dozen interviews that I'll be sharing over the next few months. I was also able to learn a TON about legal tech. It was a fantastic conference and it was particularly cool to see How I Lawyer as a Media Partner alongside other iconic legal media brands including Podcast Sponsor Law Pods!
Thanks again for being a part of the How I Lawyer community and see you next week,
Jonah
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