Legal Grounds | Conversations on Life, Leadership & Law Mike H. Bassett

This week my guest is author, coach, and corporate veteran, Sherry Buckley-Brown.Having just released her memoir, "Who Will Take Care of Me Now", Sherry and I discuss the tragic loss of her mother, the beautiful relationship she developed with her grandmother, and the ups and downs in between. After earning an MBA and working in leadership roles at IBM, Bank of America, and HCSC, Sherry came to the realization that what she enjoyed most about every job she held was working WITH people.&n...

My guest today has been preaching about the potential power of tech in the legal sphere since the earliest days of social media. Nicole Black began her legal career as a Public Defender, conducting countless hearings, jury trials, bench trials, and depositions, in matters both civil and criminal.But in 2008 she began covering the intersection of technology and law as a journalist for publications like The American Bar Association, Above the Law, and The Daily Record.In 2012 she jo...

In 2021, the Bloomberg Law Survey reached a sobering milestone. For the first time, attorneys reported feeling stressed about their workload more than HALF of the time. Setting aside the very serious and very real consequences to one’s health, when your profession is one that bills by the hour, spending half of that time in “damage-control” mode is less than optimal. But as my guest, Courtney Redman, points out, what’s more troubling is that while many of these attorneys know this i...

If you’ve ever found yourself pulling into your driveway only to realize you meant to stop at the grocery store on the way home, you know how easy it is for the brain to run on autopilotAnd while forgetting you needed to pick-up a couple of ingredients for dinner is always a bummer, when leaders find themselves running on autopilot, there’s suddenly a lot more at stake… and for A LOT of other people as well. We talk plenty on this podcast about the less-admirable traits of leadership and...

This week we welcome Serban Mare back to the program. Last time we spoke, Serban and I discussed his life story and really focused on how trust is the foundation to any working relationship. But what listeners didn’t know was that we had an entire section of the interview that we simply ran out of time on. And - perhaps ironically - that subject was Burnout. So today we pick up where we left off, discussing the different kinds of ‘burnout’ and the ways they can manifest th...

My guest this week is Dave Obrand, a fellow attorney and Deputy County Counsel out of Orange County. What attracted me to Dave was not simply the work he does helping to reunite families, but the story of his OWN family and the power to grow through grief. While not giving away the entire episode, after graduating from law school, Dave’s life took a very sudden and very unexpected turn when his father fell ill. The conversation this week was free-wheeling, but in the end I foun...