šEpisode #020: Collin Seguin (Insurance Lawyer and Business Leader)
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š„³ 20 Episodes! š„³
I am pleased to share the 20th episode of the How I Lawyer Podcast! It has been far more work than I expected but also far more rewarding and far more successful (more than 15,000 downloads already!). I love hearing from lawyers and law students (and even those outside the law) who are learning from the stories of my guests.
Thanks to all of you for following along!
Iāll also add that next week in addition to a regularly-scheduled episode, Iāll be featuring my first edition of How I Lawyer: Sidebar. Sidebar episodes will focus not on the story of a single lawyer, but rather on a single skill from the perspective of a panel of legal experts. The first Sidebar episode will be dedicated to the subject: how to succeed as a legal summer intern. Look out for the first episode of Sidebar next week.
And now back to our regularly scheduled programming:
InĀ this episodeĀ I speak with Collin Seguin, an insurance lawyer and business executive at Travelers Insurance in Hartford, Connecticut.
Collin currently serves as the Assistant Vice President and Regional Director for the Subrogation Major Case Unit where he leads a team that handles many of the most complex subrogation cases in the company. He has also served in many different roles in his 15-year tenure at Travelers including as an in-house litigation counsel, paralegal, and customer service professional. He completed his JD at the University of Connecticut School of law in the evening while working full-time at Travelers as well. In 2019, Collin was named to the Hartford Business Journal's 40 under 40 for his professional accomplishments and his work in the community including serving as an alumni mentor to first-year law students at his alma mater.Ā
In our conversation we discuss the different roles one can play in insurance law, how he survived full-time work and being a full-time law student, what he learned from his time as a litigator that assists him in his managerial role, the techniques he uses to manage remote teams in non-pandemic times, the importance of building skills from both strength areas and areas of potential improvement as a lawyer, how to speak to different audiences, and techniques for staying engaged in areas of the law outside of his specific professional niche.Ā
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See you next week,
Jonah