The Legal Genie Podcast

Business & Economics Podcasts

This podcast hosted by executive coach, Lara Quie of Lara Q Associates, explores the fascinating world of the legal ecosystem and the people within it. From rainmakers at global elite firms to trainees just starting to get their feet wet. From Queen’s Counsel, barristers, in-house counsel and the judiciary to legal tech innovators, pricing specialists, HR managers, business development and marketing professionals, legal headhunters and everyone else who is a mover and a shaker in this space. My goal is to help you see your world differently. What insights can you gain from hearing others share their experiences? What action can you take as a result? I hope that you enjoy the conversations. Love from The Legal Genie x

This podcast hosted by executive coach, Lara Quie of Lara Q Associates, explores the fascinating world of the legal ecosystem and the people within it. From rainmakers at global elite firms to trainees just starting to get their feet wet. From Queen’s Counsel, barristers, in-house counsel and the judiciary to legal tech innovators, pricing specialists, HR managers, business development and marketing professionals, legal headhunters and everyone else who is a mover and a shaker in this space. My goal is to help you see your world differently. What insights can you gain from hearing others share their experiences? What action can you take as a result? I hope that you enjoy the conversations. Love from The Legal Genie x

Location:

Singapore

Genres:

Business & Economics Podcasts

Description:

Language:

English

Contact:

+6583284568

Website:

https://thelegalgeniepodcast.buzzsprout.com/

Email:

lara@laraqassociates.com

Episodes

Episode 29 with Robert Hanna On All Things Legally Speaking

5/13/2022

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 is incredibly dedicated to content creation and has leveraged technology to the max by consistently...

Duration:00:48:09

Episode 28 with Danh Nguyen on being a Legal Managing Consultant

4/2/2022

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 Vietnam, Danh has lived and worked in Australia, Hong Kong, and the UK, where he is currently...

Duration:00:41:26

Episode 27 with Angela Vorpahl, YouTuber for Lawyers

1/24/2022

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 was raised in Texas, where she also went to university, and later passed the bar. After...

Duration:01:03:32

Episode 26 with David Grief celebrating 50 years as a Senior Clerk

11/28/2021

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 establish the first London-style chambers in Singapore. David started visiting Singapore regularly in...

Duration:00:45:52

Episode 25 with Benjamin White, the Crafty Counsel

11/3/2021

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 also a community of lawyers eager to socialize, network, mentor, and share experiences In this...

Duration:00:43:09

Episode 24 with Dipa Swaminathan, AGC at Singtel and Founder of It's Raining Raincoats

10/23/2021

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 & A, telecommunications, cybersecurity, technology, ICT, and IoT. Dipa spent several years in...

Duration:00:45:54

Episode 23 with John Leonida on Superyachts, Humility and Plumbing

10/15/2021

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 support industry or high net worth individuals, builders, and designers of some of the world's most...

Duration:00:46:34

Episode 22 with Niti Nadarajah on Finding Your Authentic Voice

10/3/2021

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 executive coaching, I set up my own consultancy, where I coach lawyers, leaders, and founders on how...

Duration:00:41:35

Episode 21 with Titus Rahiri, CEO of KorumLegal

9/9/2021

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 as high growth and unicorn businesses. Titus has experience in technology, digital, and...

Duration:00:41:03

Episode 20 with Angela Han on being Fit to Practice

8/15/2021

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 their physical and mental health, and she also coaches lawyers on their professional health,...

Duration:00:42:43

Episode 19 Dorie Clark on Playing the Long Game

7/16/2021

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 Communication Coach by the Marshall Goldsmith Leading Global Coaches Awards. Dorie is the author...

Duration:00:46:36

Episode 18 with Geoff Dunnett, MD of Shieldpay

7/9/2021

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 legal consultant to start-ups and as a Business Associate for the Techstars-Barclay’s tech...

Duration:00:36:48

Episode 17 with William McLaughlin, Legal Marketer

7/2/2021

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 is responsible for the firm’s business development operations in Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar,...

Duration:00:31:47

Episode 16 with Wong Siew Hong on Pirates and Death Row

6/23/2021

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 - not only in Singapore but all over Asia. It was the greatest time of his life. Sadly, he was...

Duration:00:49:15

Episode 15 with Claire E. Parsons on meditation and finding fulfilment in the law

6/17/2021

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 background coming from a family of attorneys and remaining in Northern Kentucky after she qualified. · Her...

Duration:00:36:50

Episode 14 with Lynette Koh, Director at Helmsman LLC, on moving in-house and out again

6/8/2021

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 career as a Partner there, thinking that she had experienced enough of being “in-house”. As one of two...

Duration:00:50:22

Episode 13 with Ravi Aswani, Barrister, Arbitrator& Mediator at 36 Stone

6/3/2021

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, banking and finance. Ravi is instructed primarily in the Commercial Court in the UK, as well as...

Duration:00:50:15

Episode 12 with Stanley T. Park, Head of Legal, Asia Pacific for Scotiabank

5/25/2021

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, Gottlieb, Steen & Hamilton and later, Coudert Brothers in New York. He then moved in-house at Salomon...

Duration:00:56:04

Episode 11 with Giles Thompson of Avvoka on being a tech evangelist

5/19/2021

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, negotiate them, and leverage data insights from that process to draft better documents, and get to...

Duration:00:45:58

Episode 10 with Daniel Lo, Founder of LegalGrounds and Legal Counsel at UBS

4/18/2021

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 and asset management. Outside of his day job, Daniel is a passionate community creator and provides...

Duration:00:40:36