🎙 How I Lawyer #126: Ayyan Zubair – Junior Litigation Associate
🎙 How I Lawyer #126: Ayyan Zubair – Junior Litigation Associate
👋 Welcome back to How I Lawyer!
Before I share information about today’s new episode I am excited to share that last night I was lucky to host the first ever How I Lawyer LIVE Podcast in front of an audience here in Washington, D.C. I am so grateful to everyone who joined us last night and especially to Jordana Alter Confino & Eli Albrecht for being such dynamite return guests and to Lateral Hub, Summer Associate Hub, and The Legal Mentor Network for sponsoring. Be on the lookout for that episode soon.
The live format was very new to me but I really enjoyed it! Hoping to find other opportunities to bring HIL into the real world soon!
Most of all, it was great to have FIVE former guests in attendance including Michelle K. Camp, Justin Lam, Eli Albrecht, Jordana Alter Confino, and Aliza Shatzman! Thanks for being there team!
And now for today’s new episode that I am really excited to share.
In this episode, Ayyan shares valuable insights about the legal profession including:
🎓 How legal internships provide valuable, experiential learning opportunities while still in law school [4:52]
🏛️ How clerking for a state supreme court justice gave him a peak behind the judicial curtain [7:11]
🌍 How being a junior litigation associate involves a multitude of practice areas [14:27]
⏳ How “work life integration” allows him to handle the workload of a big law junior associate [16:13]
🖥️ How to start a new research assignment by asking what is really necessary [22:01]
🔍 How junior litigation associates are often the master of the facts on their cases [26:05]
👂 How to handle feedback as a junior lawyer and how to treat constructive feedback as a gift [29:13]
🤝 How to network by creating personal connections with those at all levels [37:55]
🚪 How to open the doors to new lawyers by refusing to be a gatekeeper and by embracing kindness [42:15]
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