Aliza Shatzman is the President and Co-Founder of The Legal Accountability Project, a nonprofit aimed at ensuring that as many law clerks as possible have positive clerkship experiences, while extending support and resources to those who do not. Aliza earned her BA from Williams College and her JD from Washington University School of Law. After law school, Aliza clerked in DC Superior Court during the 2019-2020 term. In March 2022, Aliza submitted written testimony for a House Judiciary subcommi...
Sep 21, 2022•24 min
Don Schmincke is the author of the Best-Selling book The Code of the Executive and has been featured in the Wall Street Journal and USA Today. He is an Award-Winning Speaker, Researcher, and Founder of the SAGA Leadership Institute and delivered over 1,700 speeches. About Emily: https://www.whistlerpartners.com/team/emily-witt Edited and Produced by Mark McDonald . Launch your podcast at https://yourbusinesspodcast.net...
Sep 07, 2022•35 min
Isaiah Hardy is a rising 3L at the University of Oregon School of Law. He was born and raised in Sacramento, CA, before heading south to San Diego, where he received his bachelor's degree in Interdisciplinary Studies with an emphasis in Africana Studies, Economics, and Psychology from San Diego State University. During his 1L summer, he was a summer associate at Littler Mendelson P.C., where he had the fortunate opportunity to learn from some of the brightest L&E attorneys in the world. Duri...
Aug 31, 2022•20 min
Elecia Byrd is a native Texan with a passion for helping others. A member of the firm’s personal injury section in Austin, this talented litigator focuses her practice on automobile accidents, product injuries, traumatic brain injuries, premises liability, dog bites, and more. Elecia finds purpose as a personal injury lawyer, dedicating herself to helping injury victims who cannot help themselves. She takes great pride in her ability to bond with clients and enjoys not only acting as a legal cou...
Aug 23, 2022•28 min
Becky Bye is a lawyer, licensed healthcare provider, devoted life-long learner, and a proud Colgate Alum. Her diverse legal background includes: Representing Fortune 500 companies at a large law firm. Working as an Assistant Attorney General for the State of Colorado. Serving as an attorney-advisor for a cabinet department of the federal government. Litigating and transacting healthcare and technology matters. In 2014, she took a temporary sabbatical from law to pursue a Doctor of Dental Surgery...
Aug 10, 2022•31 min
Ramya is Associate General Counsel at Bowery Farming, a New York-based startup that is revolutionizing the way food is grown by cultivating crops, without soil, vertically, and indoors. She started this role—in the midst of the coronavirus pandemic—because she is passionate about access to food and combating climate change through innovation. Before this, she spent many years at the New York office of Skadden Arps, where she worked on regulatory enforcement and immigration matters. She received ...
Jul 20, 2022•22 min
Wendy Heilbut’s legal practice bridges the gap between traditional law and innovative growth. In addition to advising early stage and high growth companies as their outside general counsel, she is a leader in managing domestic and international trademark portfolios, cross-border trademark strategies and the intellectual property direction for innovative companies large and small. As the firm Managing Partner and the founder of Jayaram Law’s New York City practice, she has guided such visionary c...
Jul 06, 2022•25 min
Jacob Levy is a neurodiverse career coach & educator teaching jobseekers how to create content to be seen and implement successful search strategies. He supports people with disabilities and small businesses with content creation and finding their desired clientele. Jacob has a background in music and special education. He used those experiences to find a way to create short melodies & videos to aid memory retrieval, behavior management and life skills. Jacob loves to share his passion b...
Jun 14, 2022•25 min
Kieran Paul is the Founder, Director, and Legal Career Coach at Gradvantage Partners. He graduated with a law degree in 2013 from the University of Leeds. Kieran utilized his passion for uplifting others by taking his experiences in law and recruiting to align people with their career goals. He now works with aspiring attorneys to obtain roles in top law firms and coaches them on how to move up within Big Law. Kieran serves as a mentor and is constantly connecting people, creating valuable suppo...
May 24, 2022•36 min
Jahed Hussain works as Corporate Counsel for Cox Automotive UK & Europe within Digital Retail Solutions. As the world’s largest automotive services organization, Cox Automotive is committed to helping car manufacturers, fleet, and dealer customers meet the significant, bold challenges of the digital transformation era. Jahed supports internal stakeholders across Europe in achieving their local and wider business objectives. He advises on intellectual property matters, technology contracts, a...
May 09, 2022•30 min
Welcome back to another season of Beyond the Legal Lens. 2021 was an exciting year as the show was launched, and we had many people join us to talk about their careers! In this next season, I’ll be focusing on the legal community and meeting with guests that provide great advice for furthering your professional development. On that note, I am thrilled to invite Stephanie Lee as Season Two’s First guest. Stephanie and I have a long history since 2010 when I met her at Yale Law School’s Fall Inter...
Apr 19, 2022•22 min
It is a pleasure to have Spencer Klein on the show with me today. Spencer is one of my oldest friends and we lived across the hall from each other starting at two years old. We talk about growing up and the expectations we had for ourselves when it came to our careers. Ironically, Spencer is the one that went into the movie business and I went into the legal field. His father is a lawyer and my dad has a newfound career as a background actor. It has come full circle as having a podcast is an out...
Dec 21, 2021•17 min
Zachary Green attended high school Cincinnati, Ohio and went on to Bowling Green State University. He is a U.S. Marine Corps veteran and was a lieutenant with his local fire department. Zachary is the founder and former CEO of MN8 LumAware/Foxfire. He grew the company from the trunk of his car to over $30MM in organic sales and $5MM in venture funding. Zachary’s new book, Warrior Entrepreneur was released in September of 2021, and in the first few weeks, it launched to bestseller status on Amazo...
Dec 07, 2021•25 min
Elena Anderson-de Lay is an experienced Global Workforce Mobility professional, specializing in employment and academic immigration compliance. She has served countless expatriates and their families relocating to, and from the United States. As Co-founder and Lead Strategist of At Ease Solutions, Elena partners with organizations to design innovative workforce strategies and learning experiences that facilitate collaboration and belonging. She has supported organizations in industries ranging f...
Nov 23, 2021•26 min
Lisa Caprelli grew up with humble beginnings in the sun city of El Paso, Texas. She is proud of her Latin roots and culture and happy to have realized her dream of living near the ocean today in Huntington Beach, California. Lisa is a speaker, songwriter and an award-winning author of the unicorn book series, Unicorn Jazz. ™. Unicorn Jazz series offers social emotional learning (empathy, kindness, love, belonging, believing in others, feelings and more). She is an author of 17 books. , and has p...
Nov 09, 2021•25 min
Marcela Levy is a Partner at the law firm Mannheimer, Perez e Lyra, a proud working parent of twins, and a dear friend/workout buddy. She received her LL.B. from the Catholic University of Rio De Janeiro in 2008 and received her LL.M. in 2012 from Columbia University in New York City where she also met her husband. Our first encounter was in 2012 in a midtown conference room, when she was on secondment at the law firm of Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz. We talk about her journey starting with...
Oct 26, 2021•28 min
Dr. Kathryn Owler has become passionate about finding ways to experience more fun and enjoyment at work after her ‘dream job’ turned into a nightmare. She channeled her despair & disappointment into academic research – distilling the secrets of remarkable workers who’ve had fun at any job they’ve ever had! Kathryn is now the director of The Happiness at Work Coach. Her mission is to provide people that are bored, frustrated or unhappy in their jobs with easy-to-follow (empirically proven) st...
Oct 12, 2021•27 min
In this week’s episode of Beyond the Legal Lens, I sit down with two of my close friends from childhood, Liz ‘Paoli’ Case and Cori ‘Tuckman’ Gordon. Liz is the Director/Coach for the Yellow Jackets Women’s Lacrosse Team in Virginia. Liz graduated with a B.S. and Masters Degree from George Mason University where she played Division 1 Collegiate Lacrosse. Cori is currently VP Strategic Sales at Activate and graduated from Arizona State University. We talk about everything from the importance of th...
Sep 28, 2021•29 min
Stuart Grant, based in Delaware, is an internationally recognized business leader, litigator and legal investor. Prior to founding Bench Walk Advisors, he co-founded and served as Managing Director of Grant & Eisenhofer P.A., which grew under his leadership and capital investment into one of the world’s most formidable plaintiff advocacy firms. He retired from Grant & Eisenhofer in 2018 to devote his professional time to Bench Walk Advisors. In addition to his work with Bench Walk Adviso...
Sep 14, 2021•26 min
Anjie Vichayanonda is the CEO/Founder of Leg Up Legal, a company that provides a prelaw mentoring platform and mobile app to connect prospective law students with attorney mentors. Prior to founding Leg Up Legal, Anjie practiced trademark and copyright law in Washington, D.C., and in Dallas, Texas. Anjie has worked in both boutique firms and BigLaw and served clients ranging from entrepreneurs and small businesses to Fortune 100 companies. She currently is Of Counsel to Andrea Sager Law PLLC. As...
Aug 31, 2021•38 min
Brandie Mask is a 2012 graduate of Yale Law School and a BigLaw Attorney currently living in Texas. We connected over two years ago and planned a podcast episode about taking a sabbatical way before I even had a podcast. In fact, that conversation was an encouragement to start a podcast. I remember thinking, "I told Brandie that I was going to host one, and so I did!" Years later, we discuss how integral traveling is to her continued success as a lawyer. We reflect on how her experiences abroad ...
Aug 17, 2021•34 min
Hmm, How Do We Keep Employees Happy? The answer can be a lot simpler than we think. That's what I learned in this week's episode of Beyond the Legal Lens when I spoke with someone who truly loves her job and the mission of her company. Stephanie Singer is a Communications Specialist at Mercy Medical Angels (a non-profit that helps save lives with medical transportation for those in need). We discuss her trajectory and the reasons why her work environment is such a positive place for her. If orga...
Jul 27, 2021•21 min
Born and raised in Miami, Florida Richard Garzola has always been passionate about serving his community using education and policy. Having served multiple regional and national social justice organizations Richard balances his time between work and school by seeking solutions to everyday problems. Richard is a former student-athlete (football) and alum of Florida State University as well as a political candidate for City Commission. In his career before law school, Richard has served as a commu...
Jul 13, 2021•27 min
Have you ever wondered what it’s like to take an outside educational program? Whether it be learning a new skill such as martial arts, music, photography, yoga, or pilates, there is always something gained from signing up for a course. Debby Van Wickler, Alison Nunez, Jillian Ocasio and I teamed up for this episode to discuss what our Pilates Certification taught us about being a professional. We did not know each other going into the class, but after six months of intense instruction, we came o...
Jun 29, 2021•36 min
In this episode, I speak with Ted Yang (13-time Serial Entrepreneur, Author, MIT Engineer and Recovering hedge fund guy) and Matt Caruso (Director, Corporate Communications, Corporate Reputation and Digital Engagement at KPMG). The three of us went to the same elementary school together (Cherry Lane), and Matt Caruso’s house was right around the corner from mine. After graduating high school, we took separate paths and reunited on the podcast for the first time since we last saw one another as t...
Jun 14, 2021•31 min
Sharon L. Hadden is the founder of Content Planning Company, a marketing education consultancy established to work with women-led businesses of all sizes. Sharon holds a masters in Integrated Marketing Communications, and for the last decade, Sharon has helped small businesses and corporations leverage the power of digital marketing, including government and Silicon Valley tech organizations. She's an advocate for women's economic empowerment and strongly believes putting more women in positions...
Jun 01, 2021•24 min
Angela Han is a lawyer and a life coach. She helps lawyers get results by transforming blindspots into strengths. She is also the host of the Fit to Practice podcast, where she interviews lawyers on what it means to be fit to practice.
May 18, 2021•18 min
Alex holds a BBA in Marketing and a JD from Texas A&M University and Texas A&M University School of Law, respectively. She has been actively practicing as an in-house counsel since then. Her practice includes sports law, employment and corporate law, along with advising companies on their specific needs. She has been an in-house counsel for a famous sports family, a multinational company, various startups, and most recently, a professional sports team. Along with being an attorney, Alex ...
May 04, 2021•32 min
In this episode, I chat with Claudia Danies, a corporate paralegal who has succeeded in all different kinds of work environments. Claudia s holds a B.A. from Binghamton University and has been in the legal field for over twenty years. She is a self-described Bohemian and began her professional career in fashion. Claudia then decided to pivot industries, received her paralegal certificate from NYU, and landed her first legal job at Smith Barney in 1997. We discuss her love of culture, random enco...
Apr 20, 2021•28 min
Olurotimi Osha earned a Juris Doctor degree from the George Washington University Law School in Washington, DC, a Bachelor of Arts from Columbia University and an MBA from Troy University in Troy, Alabama. He received a certificate in International Human Rights Law from Oxford University (UK) and studied Intellectual Property and Corporate Law at Bocconi University in Milan, Italy. He has worked as an accountant, financial advisor, and banker in Boston. He is a writer and the founder and editor ...
Apr 06, 2021•26 min
