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Joanna is Aspect Legal’s ‘fearless leader’ with close to 2 decades of experience behind her. She has wide experience working with a large and diverse portfolio of organisations in the areas of mergers and acquisitions, contract law, procurement, commercial law, and branding. She is the proud host of two of the top business law podcasts in Australia: Talking Law (providing smart legal tips for business), and The Deal Room (Australia’s first mergers and acquisitions podcast).

Joanna spends her spare time dreaming about ways to create the perfect business, one that breaks the traditional lawyer mould, delivers deep value to its clients, and has a positive impact on the community and the world. When she isn’t protecting her clients from the unexpected storms of business, Joanna enjoys quality time with her 2 beautiful children and husband. We discuss:


Who are Aspect Legal and how are they different?
Why is there going to be a Great Resignation, and why more lawyers would want to work for a firm like Aspect Legal?
Why would a lawyer join Aspect Legal?

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Michael Bromley was a practising lawyer in Australia, and ran a successful recruitment company for several years. His experience with the recruitment company led him to understand and start his current business, Beyond Billables, a branding agency for lawyers and law firms (Beyond Billables is also the name for his podcast). We discuss: 


What is your background and journey? You were a lawyer, and now you run a law firm branding agency?
What is branding, and why is it important?
How do you improve your branding?
How do we get in touch with you?

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Kaushik Prakash & Ethan Brooke are digital marketers for the legal industry. They are business partners in Valeo Legal Marketing and have clients in a few parts of the world. Today we discuss and share the accumulated experience of both Valeo Legal Marketing and Marketlytics. We discuss the issues based on five criteria:


Time Investment 
Cost
Sustainability
ROI
Audience

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Tom & Co Legal is a relatively new legal firm in Perth, Western Australia. Tom Monks has had a long history with the law and has structured his practice like a partial social enterprise, but as a profitable business. As a person with disability, he has a passion for disability advocacy and the NDIS. He regularly represents people in NDIS matters. He was recently featured by the ABC on the topic of the NDIS. The agenda:


Tell me about yourself
Do you think the NDIS is effective?
Why do you think it remains ineffective?
Do potential NDIS participants need legal representation and when?
Were there problems with previous systems and is there hope for disabled people to get the help they need?

Andi Warda has just founded Outwest Legal in western Sydney. We explore his motivations and challenges starting a new firm. This is a candid look into starting a new law firm as a lawyer.


Tell me about Outwest Legal, how did it come about?
What motivated you to make this career change?
How does it feel at this time into your business?
Do you recommend lawyers do the same as you and at what stage or point in their career?

Peter McKay is an admitted lawyer and runs a health and safety business called WHS Share. He conceptualised "Lego n Legal", which is an excellent example of what digital marketers coin a "Digital Media Plan". We delve in a bit on how he got there, and some considerations he had whilst running it.

We make brief mention of the Piddington Society as he highly recommends them as they helped with his admission as a lawyer.