Khurram's Quorum

Khurram Naik
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Deep conversations with underrated lawyers.

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    051 Alamdar Hamdani: Seeing around the corner in enforcement

    Alamdar Hamdani is a former U.S. Attorney who now helps clients anticipate where enforcement priorities are forming before they are fully revealed. In this episode, we explore how Alamdar synthesizes executive orders, DOJ messaging, leadership signals, charging patterns, and institutional incentives to help clients see around the corner. This is a rare opportunity to learn how an experienced prosecutor builds a practice from the ground up. This episode demystifies how this new chapter gets written. If you liked this episode, here are 3 others you might like: 049 Louis Tompros: creating adjacent betsHow to find your edge and create opportunities before the market hands them to you. 047 Tim Yoo: how to study elite performers to find an edgeBuilding repeatable systems and using deliberate preparation to create real advantage. 046 Mani Walia: the lunch that launched a fund a decade later - trust, focus, and alignmentHow to compound relationships for years before they turn into visible business outcomes. About the host: Khurram Naik is a partner at Freshwater Counsel, a boutique recruiting agency focused on patent litigators. Before founding the agency, he practiced patent litigation at Goodwin. Khurram hosts Khurram’s Quorum, a podcast with in-depth conversations with federal judges, first-chair trial lawyers, and chief legal officers on their career challenges and successes. Khurram also shares insights on LinkedIn.

    1 giờ 38 phút

  2. 8 THG 4

    050 Shashi Kewalramani: compounding skills across a nonlinear career

    Shashi Kewalramani has built a nonlinear career across elite private practice, the U.S. Attorney’s Office, criminal defense, the bench, and now mediation. This episode is about how skills compound across those chapters. Some of the most valuable legal skills are not built in the most obvious places. In this episode, we explore: Nonlinearity openness to roles that do not look “on path” from the outside why the safe path is not always the path to the best skill development how varied experiences can clarify what you are actually good at CJA trust is built through time, transparency, and action indigent defense can be elite training in client counseling the hardest thing is often getting the truth from your own client Magistrate jurisprudence magistrate roles are underrated schools for writing, discovery, and case management repetition builds judicial pattern recognition Compounding advantage skills learned in one role transfer into the next deep listening, credibility, and clear explanation become differentiators later a nonlinear career can produce a more durable kind of expertise If you liked this episode, here are 3 others you might like: Judge Vince Chhabria for more on why process is substance, and how judges think about managing real cases in real time.Judge Matthew Kennelly for a deeper look at judicial decision-making, docket management, and what credibility looks like from the bench.Louis Tompros for another conversation about nonlinear legal careers, adjacent opportunities, and building something distinctive over time. About the host: Khurram Naik is a partner at Freshwater Counsel, a boutique recruiting agency focused on patent litigators. Before founding the agency, he practiced patent litigation at Goodwin. Khurram hosts Khurram’s Quorum, a podcast with in-depth conversations with federal judges, first-chair trial lawyers, and chief legal officers on their career challenges and successes. Khurram also shares insights on LinkedIn.

    1 giờ 41 phút

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    049 Louis Tompros: creating adjacent bets

    Judge Richard Linn first pointed me to Louis Tompros years ago, when he told me my entrepreneurial approach to breaking into patent litigation reminded him of one of his former clerks. The story he shared stayed with me: Louis created his own chance to argue at the Federal Circuit by stepping into a pro bono inventor appeal. In this episode, we explore how Louis has built durable edge through high-agency adjacent bets: Agency create your own reps instead of waiting for permissiontake manageable risks to accelerate learninguse pro bono work, teaching, and relationship-building to create career-accelerating opportunities Adjacency bounded adjacent bets strengthen the core rather than distract from ittrial and appellate work sharpen each otherpatent, copyright, and trademark work inform each otherplaintiff and defense work reveal the other side’s blind spots Teaching teaching forces you back to first principlesit makes you more creative as a practitionerin a mistrust-heavy courtroom, the best advocates help the audience feel capable of deciding Client perspective the client is the fourth audienceyou can win the case and still miss what matters most to the client Gift-giving long-term business development starts with doing useful things for people before there is any immediate returnrelationships compound on an uneven timelinedoing good work and doing the right thing are not separate strategies The throughline is simple: create your own reps, make bounded adjacent bets, and let the learning compound. About the host: Khurram Naik is a partner at Freshwater Counsel, a boutique recruiting agency focused on patent litigators. Before founding the agency, he practiced patent litigation at Goodwin. Khurram hosts Khurram’s Quorum, a podcast with in-depth conversations with federal judges, first-chair trial lawyers, and chief legal officers on their career challenges and successes. Khurram also shares insights on LinkedIn.

    1 giờ 42 phút

  4. 11 THG 3

    048 Neel Chatterjee: testing assumptions

    Neel Chatterjee has been testing some assumptions. In Neel's return to the podcast, we discuss what's changed in how he works. The recurring theme of this episode was testing assumptions. That includes: testing what jurors really think about "big tech companies"building consensus through a new model of a professional association of lawyers, Law Firm Partners Unitedchanging his belief of how to go to trial based on what he learned from fifth-graders.We also talk about specific techniques to use to invest in your network, like looking for the "twofer". About the host: Khurram Naik is a partner at Freshwater Counsel, a boutique recruiting agency focused on patent litigators. Before founding the agency, he practiced patent litigation at Goodwin. Khurram hosts Khurram’s Quorum, a podcast with in-depth conversations with federal judges, first-chair trial lawyers, and chief legal officers on their career challenges and successes. Khurram also shares insights on LinkedIn.

    1 giờ 46 phút

  5. 26 THG 2

    047 Tim Yoo: how to study elite performers to find an edge

    Timothy Yoo is a first-chair trial lawyer who treats litigation like sport. Tim models his preparation and execution based on principles elite performers use: Prepare your physiology. Cortisol and adrenaline are part of the job; rehearsal is how you meet the moment.Pre-commit decisions. Use decision trees in outlines so you avoid reactivity under pressure.Credibility isn't just what, it's also how. Factfinders and clients read conviction, nuance, and authenticity through delivery.Be a reliable narrator. Your job is to help factfinders see the other side and draw their own conclusions.Adversaries are opportunities. Opposing counsel is your foil/dance partner, then you shake hands at the net.You'll use everything. Variety across matters compounds into mastery for the next big stage. About the host: Khurram Naik is a partner at Freshwater Counsel, a boutique recruiting agency focused on patent litigators. Before founding the agency, he practiced patent litigation at Goodwin. Khurram hosts Khurram’s Quorum, a podcast with in-depth conversations with federal judges, first-chair trial lawyers, and chief legal officers on their career challenges and successes. Khurram also shares insights on LinkedIn.

    1 giờ 23 phút

  6. 27 THG 1

    046 Mani Walia: the lunch that launched a fund a decade later - trust, focus, and alignment

    When Mani was an associate at Susman Godfrey, he took a new colleague out for lunch for a vulnerable conversation about the demands of elite practice. A decade later, Mani's lunch friend was now a rainmaker - and Mani was who he called for funding. In this episode, we explore how Mani has used principles of trust, focus, and alignment to go from trial lawyer to GC of a multi-strategy fund to launching a litigation fund: Trustbeing trusted as a peer trial lawyer created the relationships that led to the fundthe intangibles become the tangiblesFocusfocusing on Texas trial lawyers creates operational excellenceit also enables them to act faster on decaying assets using limited informationAlignmentaligning upside and downside with firms creates a flywheel for trust and repeatabilityit also allows them to take risks others shy from About the host: Khurram Naik is a partner at Freshwater Counsel, a boutique recruiting agency focused on patent litigators. Before founding the agency, he practiced patent litigation at Goodwin. Khurram hosts Khurram’s Quorum, a podcast with in-depth conversations with federal judges, first-chair trial lawyers, and chief legal officers on their career challenges and successes. Khurram also shares insights on LinkedIn.

    1 giờ 21 phút

  7. 8 THG 1

    045 Joe Ahmad: sincerity over polish, and empathy and risk in trials

    Joe Ahmad is a trial lawyer who’s tried 100+ cases and built his entire approach around a simple premise: trials are a risk sport. If you need certainty, don’t go to trial.  In this conversation, Joe breaks down what separates persuasive advocates from “polished” advocates, and why the jury can sense the difference immediately. He shares specific stories (including a New Year’s Eve mistrial decision he’d never repeat) and practical techniques for dealing with bad facts, corporate narratives, and the emotional game of the courtroom. About the host: Khurram Naik is a partner at Freshwater Counsel, a boutique recruiting agency focused on patent litigators. Before founding the agency, he practiced patent litigation at Goodwin. Khurram hosts Khurram’s Quorum, a podcast with in-depth conversations with federal judges, first-chair trial lawyers, and chief legal officers on their career challenges and successes. Khurram also shares insights on LinkedIn.

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  8. 31/10/2025

    044 From teen mom to BigLaw: Patti Burris on turning fear into focus and freedom

    Patti Burris had two kids and an associate's degree when she started her path towards law school. Yet she made her way to the top of her class by building systems to succeed even when there wasn't a safety net. And she's reframing her biglaw path from a necessary drudge to an opportunity to build a rewarding life.  Patti's law school story begins with walking into the wrong job interview, which led to a life-changing mentorship. She shares the principles she used to call her shot in law school and end up at the top of the class through relationships with peers and professors, systems for learning, and cycles of sprints and rest.   Now, as a driven biglaw funds lawyers, Patti shares the formula she uses to ensure she's investing in herself every week. Patti also shares how she stacks goals (social, academic, professional) for exponential returns. This episode is special because it's both incredibly inspirational and full of practical techniques to achieve more with limited time. Patti has challenged me to make the most out of my time to ensure I'm living in line with my values and ambitions.  About the host: Khurram Naik is a partner at Freshwater Counsel, a boutique recruiting agency focused on patent litigators. Before founding the agency, he practiced patent litigation at Goodwin. Khurram hosts Khurram’s Quorum, a podcast with in-depth conversations with federal judges, first-chair trial lawyers, and chief legal officers on their career challenges and successes. Khurram also shares insights on LinkedIn.

    1 giờ 16 phút
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    Khurram Naik
  • Năm hoạt động
    2020 - 2026
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