🎙#098: Panel Opinion on How to Succeed as a Junior Associate with Sean Marotta & Michelle Strowhiro
👋 Happy New Year & welcome back to Year 3 of How I Lawyer! So excited to be back and to share a STELLAR new episode. But before I do a brief update.
Things got a little busy at the end of the year for me and so I neglected to send out notifications of a few new, fun episodes. Since I last wrote I published three additional episodes including interviews with Health Patent Lawyer Kevin Buckley, Business & Immigration Lawyer Karine Sokpoh, and ME (interviewed by my friends at Personal Jurisdiction).
I also wanted to encourage you to follow a new page I am curating on LinkedIn. It is called "How I Law Student" and it is geared toward sharing helpful content from across social media and the internet for law students and junior lawyers (although I think anyone can benefit). I see such amazing content every day from the people I follow and I wanted to find a way to better amplify that content to this audience.
With that, I am very excited to share Episode #98 of the How I Lawyer Podcast which is a Panel Opinion Episode on Success as a Junior Law Firm Associate (. The rockstar panel includes DC-based Hogan Lovells Partner Sean Marotta and California-based McDermott Will & Emery Partner Michelle Strowhiro.
Michelle is an employment partner and M&A transaction advisor in McDermott’s LA and Orange County Offices. She leads McDermott’s Transactions and Executive Contracts Employment Subgroup and co-leads McDermott’s COVID-19 Employment Task Force. Michelle was recently named an a Trailblazer by American Lawyer and a Labor & Employment Star by Benchmark Litigation. She is also active in mentoring junior lawyers both formally and informally within her firm and on social media.
Sean is an Appellate Litigation Partner at Hogan Lovells DC office. Sean has worked on cases and appeals in many substantive areas of law but is particularly experienced in civil-procedure, automotive, energy, and administrative appeals. Sean has received a number of awards and recognitions for his work including as being selected as a DC Rising Star by the National Law Journal. Like Michelle, Sean is deeply dedicated to advancing the profession and mentoring junior lawyers. He is active or should I say prolific on social media where he regularly offers advice for junior lawyers.
In the conversation we discuss the story of how he founded a legal technology company despite not being a lawyer, the importance of learning about the business of law, the reasons why lawyers tend to be slow to change and the value of being OK with rejecting the status quo, finding the latent legal markets of today and tomorrow, reframing clients as customers, and more.
Listen Now: How to Succeed as a Law Firm Associate
Thanks again for being a part of the How I Lawyer community and see you next week,
Jonah
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