What a Lawyer Sam Lindsay

In this episode, we are joined by Christian Pinkney, an intermediate civil litigator from Corcoran French in Christchurch. Christian's journey in law didn't start the usual way. He shares his journey through University, through his first role being somewhere he hadn't envisioned and working hard to get to where he needs to be now. ‍Christian's experience at University was like most of ours, having way too much fun and on reflection, could have worked harder to set himself up for success. Starting out with a full time role in-house instead of in Private Practice meant his start was different that what he envisioned. ‍But through working hard and acquiring skills, he landed a great role and seems to be absolutely loving it. Christian also discusses the main differences between his experience working in-house vs private practice and has an obvious piece of advice for himself at the end. ‍Sam reviews this conversation in depth at the episode for our junior audience.

In this episode, we are joined by Willie Hamilton, a senior generalist litigator who made his way up by throwing himself into it.

From his self-proclaimed casual performance at University to a top tier national law firm in Chapman Tripp, Willie shares how he managed to absorb experience from a range of places, situations and people and borrow their best for himself.

Willie's purpose of coming on the podcast aligned nicely with the overall reason for creating it - to reach juniors with stories from seniors as a means to relay information that might be beneficial.

Willie talks about opportunity, mentorship, choice and change, all in the pursuit for job enjoyment and progression.

Tune in on your favourite podcast app or visit www.chisholmclarke.co.nz/what-a-lawyer-podcast for more information.

This episode was a really fun one to put together. Sunny and Sam have known each other for years so it was a bit like old times.

This conversation with Sunny is focussed on Criminal Law and the competing elements of Prosecution and Defence. During the early parts of Sunny's career he was immersed in Defence with the Public Defence Service before his more recent few years doing Prosecution on behalf of the Crown.

We tap into this unique perspective to reveal what the role of each lawyer looks like, how to navigate moral conflict whilst doing the best for your client and what the future of criminal law could look like.

Tune into this talk on your favourite podcast platform or through the link below.

https://open.spotify.com/episode/54yflmjkDyufJYUFcSncug

In the first episode of Season 2, we sat down with Derek Roth-Biester, a Corporate (TMT) Partner from Anderson Lloyd's Queenstown office.

Derek has been around computers and technology since he was young fella, always finding interest in them and their potential. Derek's professional career as a Lawyer has taken him all around the globe and landing in the adventure capital of the world recently.

Derek's fascination with technology, and more recently Artificial Intelligence is infectious. He has a deep understanding of available tools, their purposes and limitations and has some opinions of where they could go. As the title suggests, we are in an unprecedented time with AI and no-one can really foresee what's going to happen next, but Derek and I give it a go in this episode.

If you are someone who is remotely interested in AI and the upcoming surge of demand for tools or legal services surrounding them, this will be a good conversation to tune into.

In this episode, we discuss the world of Digital Assets with James Cochrane, a Partner in Lane Neave's national dispute resolution team.

James has had a broad career spanning large top tier Firms with challenging and intricate work to specialist practice building and really honing in on his now-refined speciality.

In this discussion, we visit James' passion for Cryptocrurrency and how his interest in the subject matter helped morph his thinking and skill-acquisition. James describes various laws surrounding digital assets and the remaining grey area in the legislation that supports it.

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In this episode we sit down with Fiona McMillan, an elite Employment and Health & Safety Partner in Lane Neave's Auckland office.

Fi's career has seen her faced with many opportunities, from starting out in Christchurch to opening an office in Auckland. Hear from Fi around what different opportunities you could be presented with and those you might need to search or fight for.

Fi has consistently been recognised for her work across some of the industry's major media publications and awards issuers but remains humble, loyal to her family and her firm and has a great time doing it.

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https://podcasts.apple.com/nz/podcast/s1-e08-fiona-mcmillan-on-bravery-and-taking-opportunities/id1704775728?i=1000637756019

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