#TalkToMayo

Short solo episode, sharing the word on the street in the legal market and the topics that lawyers are talking about right now!

Adam is a Solicitor-Advocate with extensive experience of criminal and sports law spanning over fifteen years (the last seven running his own exclusively private practice) including periods with some of the largest international law firms in the world, such as DLA Piper.

One of the most fascinating guests. We talk about boxing, crime, starting your own law firm, recruitment and more!

Benjamin White is the founder of Crafty Counsel https://craftycounsel.co.uk/ a digital media platform and legal community. Prior to founding the business Benjamin worked as a lawyer in the fashion industry and as a Corporate Lawyer at Clifford Chance in London. 

Electra Japonas shares the story of her journey from Lawyer at the European Space Agency, through various major corporations, culminating in taking the big risk of starting up her own business. 

Alex Conroy coaches people (particularly women) to become more confident, and more sucessful. Before that she climbed the legal career ladder becoming a Partner at Elite US Law firms Kirkland & Ellis, and Fried Frank. But despite "making it" she felt that there was something missing. 

A chance introduction to a coach when she was looking for help to improve her issues with sleeping lead her down a path that culminated in leaving Biglaw behind to set up her own coaching consultancy. 

Listen to the full story here. 

John is Founding Partner at Kepler Wolf, an independent law firm for independent thinkers. We use our legal and business expertise to help liberate our clients in the innovation and technology sectors.

John is a highly-experienced lawyer specialising in commercial, intellectual property and advertising and technology law. He has over ten years’ experience advising clients operating within the advertising, creative, technology and start-up industries.

John advises clients across a range of non-contentious matters, including online brand protection issues as well as assisting those taking commercial steps to protect and enforce their brand and IP.

He has expertise in advising business owners and companies on the start up, growth and exit phase of their businesses, and also has experience handling contentious matters for his clients.

John is recognised in The Legal 500 UK 2017 for Advertising. He is a UK legal advisor to SoDA, the global society of leading businesses in the digital and creative industries. 

Yasmin Daswani is an Associate at Fladgate in their dispute resolution team, and has a side hustle as an International Cricketer, opening the batting for Hong Kong.

We talk about her childhood in Hong Kong, and how her mother got her into Cricket to re-connect her with her Indian roots, her journey into law, and how she's able to balance performing at work with performing at the crease.

Roshni Thakrar is a Pensions Lawyer, and the Host of the Prim Rose Light podcast. Roshni and I swap notes on our experiences, guests, and learning moments from 2020. 

Charlène returns to the podcast to introduce us to the world of Bio-Hacking. We also discuss why Charlène is bucking the trend of many in the wellness space who advocate for plant based diets. Charlène discusses her experiences of plant based eating, and why she believes optimum health can only be achieved by eating ethically raised animal produce. 

00:00 Intro

3:30 – What is bio-hacking?

16:45 – Balancing things that are good for you and bad for you

25:30 – What is health coaching and why do we need it?

29:15 – Why Charlène isn’t vegan

40:22 – Nose to tail eating

54:00 – Getting your genes tested

2:26 – Khurram introduces himself and describes his journey into law

09:00 – What got him into Employment law

13:00 – Social Mobility and diversity

17:30 – Decision to leave Baker & McKenzie

21:10 – What it’s like to move as a day one partner

31:00 – Growing the team 

36:16 – Interviewing people for partner roles

40:20 – Running a high performing team and maintaining work life balance