The Legal Genie Podcast

Welcome to Episode 30, which is a brand new feature on business development and personal growth topics. Your host, Lara Quie, discusses building your personal brand with Ricky Nowak, professional speaker and executive coach specialising in leadership management and behaviour.  Join their conversation to hear about leveraging LinkedIn and other technology to stand out as a lawyer in this crowded ma...

In Episode 29 of the Legal Genie podcast, your host, Lara Quie, is in conversation with the Robert Hanna, Founder & Managing Partner of KC Partners, a legal talent solutions and content creation firm focused on community.  Robert and his team work with all the most prestigious law firms in the UK and internationally helping to place lawyers at all levels in private practice and in-house.  He i...

In Episode 28 of the Legal Genie Podcast, your host, Lara Quie is joined by Danh Nguyen, General Manager and Managing Consultant at KorumLegal for Europe, the Middle East, and Africa.  KorumLegal is a legal innovator, changing the way legal solutions are created and delivered. It offers value-driven People, Managed Legal Services and Process and Tech solutions for in-house legal teams.  Born in Vi...

In Episode 27 of the Legal Genie Podcast, your host, Lara Quie, is in conversation with Angela Vorpahl. Angela is an American intellectual property and human rights attorney turned YouTube channel host and creator of the “Law School Master Plan Strategy” course designed to help law students master their time, compete for top grades and position themselves for their dream job out of law school. She...

In Episode 26 of the Legal Genie Podcast with your host, Lara Quie, is in conversation with a unique guest who has been in the legal industry for half a century, David Grief. David is probably the world’s most experienced international modern barrister’s clerk. He was the senior clerk for 38 years for Essex Court Chambers, one of the pre-eminent commercial sets in London and then moved to establis...

In Episode 25 of the Legal Genie podcast, your host, Lara Quie, is in conversation with Benjamin White. Ben spent six years as a corporate lawyer at Clifford Chance before moving in-house with the Global Fashion Group. In 2017, he founded Crafty Counsel, a platform that allows legal counsel access to online learning and development via a series of videos recorded by specialists in the area. It is...

In Episode 24 of The Legal Genie Podcast, your host, Lara Quie, is in conversation with Dipa Swaminathan, Assistant General Counsel at Singtel in Singapore.  Dipa was educated at the National Law School of India University and Harvard Law School. She is admitted in New York, England & Wales, and India. She has substantial experience in project finance, corporate finance, general corporate, M &...

In Episode 23 of The Legal Genie Podcast, your host, Lara Quie is in conversation with John Leonida. Until his retirement from law in 2020, John was a partner at Clyde & Co in London, where he specialized in international shipping and marine work and established a niche area, which he branded the "Superyacht Group." His clients were either shipping entrepreneurs, operators in the oil...

The Legal Genie Podcast Episode 22 with Niti Nadarajah [00:00:00] Hello, and thank you for joining me, Lara Quie, for the Legal Genie Podcast.  [00:00:33] Following my career as a corporate lawyer at Dentons and DLA Piper, I reinvented myself as an entrepreneur and then as Asia Pacific Head of Business Development at Duane Morris.  [00:00:45] After a life event introduced me to the world of execut...

In Episode 21 of the Legal Genie podcast, your host, Lara Quie, is in conversation with Titus Rahiri, CEO and Founder of Alternative Legal Services Provider (ALSP), KorumLegal.  Titus is based in Hong Kong.  A senior corporate and commercial lawyer with over 20 years of experience in Europe and the Asia Pacific, he has led legal teams in New Zealand listed FTSE and NASDAQ listed companies, as well...

The Legal Genie Podcast Episode 20 with Angela Han This week on the Legal Genie Podcast, your host, Lara Quie, is in conversation with Angela Han. Angela is a healthcare lawyer, life, and health coach. She is the corporate counsel for Health Pro Heritage, and also runs her own coaching business called Angela Han Health LLC, a qualified personal trainer and yoga teacher, she coaches lawyers on thei...

This week in Episode 19 of the Legal Genie Podcast, your host, Lara Quie, is in conversation with the amazing Dorie Clark . Dorie is a strategy consultant, executive coach, lecturer, and keynote speaker. She is a Professor at Duke University’s Fuqua School of Business and has been named one of the Top 50 business thinkers in the world by Thinkers50.  She was also recognized as the world’s No. 1 Co...

In Episode 18 of the Legal Genie Podcast, your host, Lara Quie, is in conversation with Geoff Dunnett. Geoff is Managing Director and part of the founding team at Shieldpay, a payment solutions fintech company.  Geoff is a qualified solicitor and practised as a Project Finance lawyer at Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy LLP and Mayer Brown International LLP, before working as an independent lega...

In Episode 17 of the Legal Genie Podcast, your host, Lara Quie, is in conversation with William McLaughlin. William is a legal business developer and marketer based in Bangkok, Thailand. He specializes in improving back-end legal operations and helping lawyers with the business of law. He is the Business Development Manager at ZICO Law , a regional law firm operating in all 10 ASEAN countries. He...

In Episode 16 of the Legal Genie Podcast, your host, Lara Quie, is in conversation with prominent Singapore lawyer, Wong Siew Hong, Partner at Eldan Law LLP in Singapore. Siew Hong read law at the National University of Singapore and was called to the Bar in 1988. Three years later, he heard the call of the wild and became a private investigator, chasing pirates who made and sold fake products - n...

In Episode 15 of the Legal Genie Podcast, your host, Lara Quie, is in conversation with Claire E. Parsons.  Based in Kentucky in the United States, Claire is a local government and school law attorney, speaker, best-selling author, certified meditation teacher, founder of the Brilliant Legal Mind blog, proud introvert, and mum to two unruly girls. Claire shares the following: ·         Her backgro...

In Episode 14 of the Legal Genie podcast, your host, Lara Quie, is in conversation with Lynette Koh, Director at Helmsman LLC.  Lynette spent the first decade of her career as a banking and insolvency litigator at Rajah & Tann, the biggest law firm in Singapore.  In this time however, she had two years of in-house experience at HSBC, but thereafter returned to Rajah & Tann to further her c...

In Episode 13 of the Legal Genie podcast, your host, Lara Quie, is in conversation with Ravi Aswani.  Ravi is a commercial dispute resolution barrister, arbitrator, and mediator at 36 Stone.  Called to the bar of England & Wales in year 2000, he has a broad practice which covers shipping and international trade, commodities, energy, oil and gas, metals and mining, insurance and re-insurance, b...

This week in Episode 12 of the Legal Genie podcast, your host, Lara Quie, is in conversation with Stanley T. Park.  Stanley is Managing Director and Head of Legal for Asia Pacific for Scotiabank's Global Banking and Markets Division. He is based in Singapore and is responsible for all legal matters across the region. Stanley started his legal career as a law clerk, before joining Cleary, Gott...

This week in Episode 11 of the Legal Genie podcast, your host, Lara Quie is in conversation with legal tech evangelist, Giles Thompson of document automation, negotiation and analytics company, Avvoka. It has offices based in London and Singapore.  As Avvoka's Head of Growth based in London, Giles works with leading law firms, in-house legal teams, and businesses to help them draft documents,...

This week in Episode 10 of the Legal Genie podcast, your host, Lara Quie is in conversation with Daniel Lo. Daniel is a private equity lawyer and is triple-qualified in Canada, England & Wales and the British Virgin Islands.  He was born in Hong Kong, and proudly calls Canada his home. He is currently working as a legal counsel in-house at UBS in Singapore and is focusing on investment funds a...

This week in Episode 9 of the Legal Genie podcast, your host, Lara Quie is in conversation with Kai Schneider, Singapore Managing Partner of Clifford Chance, one of the global elite law firms. We talk about his career journey and what he has learnt along the way.  Kai is the head of the Funds and Investment Management group in Singapore. With over 20 years of experience as a US qualified lawyer, K...

This week on Episode 8 of the Legal Genie Podcast with me, your host, Lara Quie, I am delighted to have “the happy solicitor” himself, Jay Sahota, Owner and Senior Partner at Jarmans Solicitors. Jay read law at Cambridge University and trained at Allen & Overy in London. After qualification, he specialized in dispute resolution and worked at several firms including city and regional firms such...

This week in Episode 7 of the Legal Genie podcast, I am delighted to be joined by Adam Freeman, who recently stepped down after 15 years as a senior partner in the banking practice of the London office of Linklaters LLP.  After 25 years as a hard-working finance lawyer advising on financing transactions principally relating to acquisitions, Adam decided that he was ready to find more of a balance...

This week in Episode 6 of the Legal Genie Podcast, your host, Lara Quie, is in conversation with a sister and brother team of legal recruiters. Annie Tang and Chris Tang are the co-founders and co-Managing Directors of the Star Anise Group, a specialist legal and compliance recruitment agency, flexible outsourcing company, and leadership and training provider based in Hong Kong.  Annie and Chris a...