🎙 How I Lawyer #129: Astor Heaven - Litigation Partner at Crowell & Moring LLP
🎙 How I Lawyer #129: Astor Heaven - Litigation Partner at Crowell & Moring LLP
🎉 PLUS How I Lawyer Celebrates 250,000 Downloads
👋 Welcome back and Happy New Year!
🎉 250,000 Downloads
Today is a big day for the podcast! It has been three years and ten days since I published the first episode. Today, How I Lawyer officially hit 250,000 downloads!
I could not be more grateful to the guests, the listeners, and to the community we are building here to make the legal profession better and more transparent by telling and sharing lawyer stories. I can't wait to see where this journey continues to take me but for now I just want to share a big thank you!
🎙Today's Epsiode
The first episode of 2024 features Astor Heaven, a Partner at Crowell & Moring, where he is a trial lawyer and commercial litigator working on a range of matters, with a focus on defense industry and government contract clients. After graduating from the United States Naval Academy, Astor served as a Surface Warfare Officer in the U.S. Navy before attending law school at American University Washington College of Law. After graduating from law school, Astor worked as a transactional attorney at Mintz before joining Crowell & Moring’s litigation practice.
Special thanks to former guest and friend of the pod Ashley Herd for making this connection!
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In this episode, Astor shares valuable insights about the legal profession, including:
🏈 How discovering his personality didn't align with a sports agent role led to a rewarding shift to law.
⚓ How his experience serving on a Navy ship gave him the perspective to realize that law school was not the only thing that mattered in his life [6:47]
🕒 How he effectively juggled his commitments as an evening student, in addition to working as a military recruiter and as a new father, by being deliberate with time management [9:43]
⚖️ How working on pro bono cases fueled Astor’s passion for being in court and led to a lateral move from a transactional practice to litigation [12:30]
📚 How thorough research and self-advocacy are key to succeeding in law firm interviews [15:56]
🎯 How leveraging pro bono opportunities can sharpen trial skills and clarify career goals [24:40]
🤝 How and why to deliberately develop a sponsor relationship [28:45]
📅 How a day in the life of a litigator combines case strategy with future client planning [32:51]
🏛️ How trial work's fast-paced, collaborative environment is intense yet rewarding, reminiscent of the teamwork in sports [35:31]
💡 How to demonstrate initiative by proactively bringing new ideas to the table [37:29]
🌐 How building a network in law school lays the groundwork for future professional opportunities [41:10]
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Thanks again for being a part of the How I Lawyer community, and see you soon,
Jonah
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