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Book launch and free shipping for Christmas
Hello listeners and readersI have two pieces of news for you.The first is that LexisNexis has removed the $13 courier charge from The New Lawyer Companion on its website, so you can now order for Christmas without paying more! Amazing.And the second piece of news is that The New Lawyer Companion has its official book…
The New Lawyer Companion is out now!
Hello, lovely readersToday is the official commercial release day for The New Lawyer Companion: Essays on law, life and humanity. Amazing. You can currently buy the book online through the LexisNexis store, and very soon in other places as the roll out goes along. If you want to buy it from your local bookstore…
Part 2: Tayla and Adair talk admission, tokenism, and bringing Tikanga into the way law is practised
In part 2 of my conversation with Tayla and Adair, solicitors at Kāhui legal, we talk about issues and experiences in law that matter most to them. (To hear the part of the conversation about their study and career paths to date, go here.) They talk about their experiences of admission, of some misguided…
Part 1: Tayla and Adair talk finding community at law school, working on Treaty cases as new solicitors, and Māori identity within their legal practice
This episode is part 1 of a two part conversation I had with Tayla Afoa and Adair Houia-Ashwell, two solicitors who work for Kāhui Legal. They contributed a chapter to my book, and had so much wonderful insight and experience to share that I had to also do a podcast episode with them. In…
A book! The New Lawyer Companion: Essays on law, life and humanity
Well! I, together with some wonderful co-contributors, have written a book! A collection of essays gathered into five key topics written for the purpose of improving how it feels to go through law school and law or law-adjacent careers. The book exists because of a collaboration between The College of Law and LexisNexis and will…
New column: If you're serious about lawyers' mental health, start with making them work less
There’s, uh, no getting around that title. This is an article I wrote for LawTalk’s collection of articles regarding Mental Health Awareness Week earlier this month. I wrote it the month before, during a period in which I was especially aware of my own mental health, shall we say, and was acutely annoyed at…
Amanda Smidt from the Career Development Company talks how to make career decisions, what comes before editing your CV, and how wellbeing integrates with your work life
Damian Hanna talks legal recruitment, career flexibility, and not waiting for burnout to change course
Hello listeners – in this episode I finally sat down with Damian Hanna, specialist legal recruiter, to discuss everything I could think of related to recruitment and finding a job. Damian studied law and has over 20 years’ experience in legal recruitment in New Zealand and it was lovely to pick his brain about the…
Special episode – Katie and Cassandra discuss life and lawyering in Covid times
Hello, listeners. I hope this episode finds you well, and managing all the ups and downs of these strange times. This is a special episode of the podcast that has no map, but I am also producing two episodes in the usual format to be released over the next couple of weeks, one from a…