Legally Speaking Podcast

Send us a text This week on the Legally Speaking Podcast, our host Robert Hanna welcomes the super talented Ben White to the show! Ben is the Founder of Crafty Counsel, a media platform for in-house counsels and other legal professionals to connect with each other. Ben trained at Clifford Chance, before advancing to Senior Associate within the Corporate Finance Team. He then moved to Global Fashio...

Send us a text This week on the Legally Speaking Podcast, our host Robert Hanna welcomes the fabulous Lorna Hackett and Michael Mansfield QC to the show! We're super excited about this one! Lorna is a barrister with extensive litigation experience in judicial review and human rights. She was called to the Bar in 2003, with expertise in advising cases of a sensitive nature. Lorna is the head of leg...

Send us a text This week on the Legally Speaking Podcast, our host Robert Hanna welcomes Christoph Mlinarchik to the show! Christoph is a former US federal contracting officer, former director of GovCon for a US defence contractor and is a qualified expert witness. Christoph is also an attorney, consultant and instructor. He has a wealth of experience negotiating, reviewing and managing billions o...

Send us a text This week on the Legally Speaking Podcast, our host Robert Hanna chats with the very experienced and fascinating Lawrence Power! Lawrence is a Barrister and was called to the Middle Temple in 1995. Since being called, Lawrence has built a large high profile practice and has been the Head of Chambers for over 15 years at Whitestone Chambers in London, specialising in Commercial and A...

Send us a text This week on the Legally Speaking Podcast, our host Robert Hanna welcomes Trainee Solicitor, Troy Atkin... or The Weightlifting Lawyer as you may know him! Troy is currently in the first seat of his Training Contract and is based in the Commercial Department in the Portsmouth office of Biscoes Solicitors. Troy is due to qualify in March 2023. Alongside this (and given the name!), Tr...

Send us a text This week on the Legally Speaking Podcast, our host Robert Hanna welcomes the amazing Alexandra Shapiro to the show! Alexandra was one of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg's first law clerks at the Supreme Court, and also served as a law clerk to Judge Stephen F. Williams of the D.C. Circuit. Alexandra is a former federal prosecutor with 30 years of experience and has argued in the U.S Su...

Send us a text This week on the Legally Speaking Podcast, our host Robert Hanna welcomes high profile Personal Injury (PI) Attorney, Frederick Penney! Fred is the CEO and Founder of the law firm, Penney & Associates. He is of the highest AVVO rated Personal Injury Attorney (a rating of 10 - ''Superb Lawyer'') and has featured on top media platforms such as Forbes (Fred's Forbes Interview) and...

Send us a text This week on the Legally Speaking Podcast, our host Robert Hanna is joined by the Corporate Law Academy Founder, Jaysen Sutton. Jaysen completed his undergraduate law degree at the London School of Economics. Jaysen went on to the University of Cambridge to complete his master’s in corporate law. From then on, Jaysen began his career as a trainee at the US-based law firm Weil Gotsha...

Send us a text This week on the Legally Speaking Podcast, our host Robert Hanna welcomes Megan Hulme. Megan is a trainee solicitor at an international law firm based in London. She previously worked as a Paralegal at Mischon de Reya LLP and Armstrong Private Client Solicitors Ltd before securing her training contract at the tail end of 2020. Megan is the Founder of ‘It’s All Hearsay’ – a popular I...

Send us a text How is the social audio industry taking mentorship by storm? Well, social audio app 'Wisdom' is showing you how! This week on the Legally Speaking Podcast, our host Robert Hanna welcomes Dayo Akinrinade, Founder of Wisdom. As well as being a successful business owner, Dayo aspires to fill diversity gaps, having been recognised as representing her passions by joining the founding tea...

Send us a text This week on the Legally Speaking Podcast, our host Robert Hanna welcomes Emma Nash, founder of the 'Family Law Language Project' and Family Law Partner at Fletcher Day. Aside from Emma's busy work life as a Family Law Partner, she is a strong advocate for reform within the family justice system. Emma is a strong believer in making family law easier to understand and more accessible...

Send us a text The ‘Fertility in the Workplace’ Miniseries, featuring Natalie Sutherland and Somaya Ouazzani, delves into how fertility in the workplace can be addressed more openly and how law firms can do a better job at acknowledging the challenges faced around fertility. The series looks into tackling fertility issues as a lawyer, in addition to family planning and becoming parents. Natalie Su...

Send us a text This week on the Legally Speaking Podcast, our host Robert Hanna welcomes Charlène Gisele. Charlène is the Founder and Director of her own Primal Wellness Coaching Business. Charlène trained as a solicitor and worked as an associate at American International law firm, Jones Day. Travelling the world to learn more about health and wellness, Charlène became a biohacker, working as Chi...

Send us a text The ‘Fertility in the Workplace’ Miniseries, featuring Emma Menzies delves into how fertility in the workplace can be addressed more openly and how law firms can do a better job at acknowledging the challenges faced around fertility. The series looks into tackling fertility issues as a lawyer, in addition to family planning and becoming parents. Emma Menzies is a Coach and founder o...

Send us a text This week on the Legally Speaking Podcast, our host Robert Hanna welcomes Judge Robert Bacharach. Robert graduated from Washington University School of Law and worked for Oklahoma firm, Crowe and Dunlevy, practising commercial litigation. He has worked as a federal magistrate judge for the United States District Court for the Western District of Oklahoma. In 2013, Robert was appoint...

Send us a text The ‘Fertility in the Workplace’ Miniseries, featuring Natalie Sutherland and Somaya Ouazzani, delves into how fertility in the workplace can be addressed more openly and how law firms can do a better job at acknowledging the challenges faced around fertility. The series looks into tackling fertility issues as a lawyer, in addition to family planning and becoming parents. Natalie Su...

Send us a text In this episode of the Legally Speaking Podcast, our host Robert Hanna welcomes Rebecca Annison. Rebecca is the Director of Engagement at The Chancery Lane Project. Becky got her MBA in Legal Practice and trained as a solicitor at the firm Bird & Bird. She then spent 14 years working first as a commercial contracts solicitor and then as a senior editor at Practical Law before mo...

Send us a text In the ‘Fertility in the Workplace’ Miniseries, featuring Natalie Sutherland and Somaya Ouazzani, we will delve into how fertility in the workplace can be addressed more openly and how law firms can do a better job at acknowledging the challenges faced around fertility. The series looks into tackling fertility issues as a lawyer, in addition to family planning and becoming parents....

Send us a text In this episode of the Legally Speaking Podcast, our host Robert Hanna welcomes Laura Frederick. Laura is the Founder of ‘How to Contract’, helping lawyers and professionals draft and negotiate contracts. For 25 years, Laura has been helping clients with their business contracts and technology agreements. She has previously worked for Tesla, as part of their Legal Counsel and in 201...

Send us a text This week on the Legally Speaking Podcast, our host Robert Hanna welcomes Joshua Lenon. Joshua is the lawyer in residence at Clio. An attorney admitted to the New York Bar, Joshua brings legal scholarship to the conversations happening both within Clio and with its customers. Joshua has worked extensively to educate lawyers on technology’s capability to enhance their practice, while...

Send us a text This week on the Legally Speaking Podcast, our host Robert Hanna welcomes Tony Thai and Jace Lynch. Tony and Jace have co-founded HyperDraft – a full-service document generation service. The full-service generation customises documents based on client forms, with quick and reliable results. Tony is the Chief Engineer of HyperDraft - previously working as an Attorney at Goodwin, Nixo...

Send us a text This week on the Legally Speaking Podcast, our host Robert Hanna welcomes Nick Eziefula. Nick is a partner at one of the UK’s leading media and entertainment law firms, Simkins LLP. Nick specialises in commercial law and intellectual property. Nick is passionate about music and is an artist himself. Nick has released several albums, touring internationally. Alongside this, Nick also...

Send us a text In this episode of the Legally Speaking Podcast, our host Robert Hanna welcomes Mel Scott. Mel is part of the senior legal counset at Megaport, a global technology company based in Australia. She’s an in house adviser to the Women Lawyers Association in Queensland, in addition to serving as a member association of corporate counsel National Conference Committee. She is now a passion...

Send us a text This week on the Legally Speaking Podcast, our host Robert Hanna welcomes Colin Levy. Colin is a legal tech consultant and director of Legal and Evangelist at Malbek, where he carries out his mission of bridging the tech world with the legal world. Alongside his work at Malbek, Colin is an Advisory Board Member for Proxy, a cloud-based legal workflow tool. He also has a blog, titled...

Send us a text This week on the Legally Speaking Podcast, our host Robert Hanna welcomes Karl Wilson. After training to become a lawyer with Linklaters and qualifying into their Capital Markets team, Karl took a year out to pursue his other passions and attended the Royal Academy of Music. He later embarked upon two years of professional actor training at Bristol Old Vic Theatre School. Since then...