Blanca Leon is a UK based lawyer who offers legal consulting support on commercial matters and solutions, combining purpose and values with plain language drafting and visual design to create clear, collaborative and human centric legal documents. In January 2021, after nearly 10 years, she left a corporate in-house role to explore a holistic approach to practising law. In this episode, we talk about how Blanca came to her decision and made the leap from corporate to purpose-driven, a...

Sylvia Clute is the founder of a revolutionary model of criminal justice, know as unitive justice. A former trial attorney, she has devoted her life to justice – but unlike many she has truly reflected on the meaning of this word - justice. For Sylvia, there are two fundamental models of justice, one grounded in fear that seeks retribution and revenge and one grounded in love that seeks healing and transformation--what she calls "Unitive Justice”. In this episode, Sylvia shares he...

We can use laws to nurture our common humanity or create divisions between us. Intellectual property laws offer us a fine example of how we can unite, rather than separate. Ariadni Athanassiadis is a Canadian intellectual property and contracts legal professional practising to support solopreneurs, creatives and small business. Her passion has always been to creatively empower others. Her wisdom path as a professional nomad has guided her to appreciate how our joyful expression ...

Chuck Menahem Kanafi is a values-based, purpose driven lawyer. He specialises in conflict prevention and management and contracts. ​He is a Certified Mediator and brings an intentional and mindful approach to mediation. He is a Certified Conscious Contracts® practitioner and trainer. We discuss his insights into new ways of addressing conflicts in mediation and ​through Conscious Contracting® as well as his plans to assist impactful businesses through more compassionate contracts. Show...

Nigel Clark is the CEO of nexa law, an innovative and fast-growing UK-based law business. He is an international lawyer and an expert in New Law business models. He has had a curiosity about legal business structures for many years and managed cross-border legal services businesses in cities from London and Beijing for a large international law firm. ​Nigel most recently co-founded and managed Peregrine Law in London which was acquired by nexa law in January 2020. In this ep...

Maureen Ngozi Obi-Ezekpazu is a barrister with her own chambers in London, England. Her life story shines with love, courage and service. She is no mystic, guru, or sage. She is a practising lawyer who happens to function with higher awareness of her connection to spirit and lives and breathes it in all her dealings. She experienced a harrowing childhood of under-privilege, prejudice and abuse growing up in 1960s England as a child of Nigerian migrants. She overcame all of it and today is...

Emily Knowles is a trained lawyer who practises as an organisational psychologist. One of her favourite perspectives is the interplay between organisational psychology and spirituality. We talk about how the world of work is transforming for everyone. Emily provides helpful tools from the world of organisational psychology to help us navigate our work-lives, deal with the enormous changes in the why, where, how, and when we work, and be more impactful as lawyers. Emily is ...

Katherine Thomas is the CEO of Free Range Lawyers, a collective of people who believe in the power of distributed and remote working to make lives and businesses better. The business connects freelance lawyers who work outside the office with legal service providers looking to flex their resource. In her role, Katherine has her finger on the pulse of a movement to a different working style, as reflected in the Great Resignation. Katherine provides her informed views on the future of re...

Sarah Dadush is a professor with Rutgers University in the US. She writes and teaches in the areas of business and human rights, consumer law, and social enterprise law. ​Sarah is a member of the American Bar Association's project to develop Model Contract Clauses for human rights due diligence for business. We discuss how these clauses adopt a revolutionary approach to contracting, one of shared responsibility and collaboration to achieve meaningful change in human rights including mod...

Paul Knowlton is a lawyer based in Atlanta, Georgia. He is Of Counsel with a firm called Stanton Law LLC and is a specialist in IP law. ​We discuss the book that he has recently co-authored, titled Better Capitalism: Jesus, Adam Smith, Ayn Rand, and MLK Jr. on Moving from Plantation to Partnership Economics. ​Show notes: [2:19] Paul explains his family background including his mother's Cuban immigrant roots and why he is not anti-capitalist. [5:20] The purpose of Better Capita...

Jacqueline Horani is a lawyer and the founder of Horani Law, PLLC - the law firm think tank hub for the work she does through her ‘Legally Unconventional’ work. Show notes [2:15] Jacqueline discusses her journey from a law student at NYU, learning about the integrative law movement, then going on to join a Legal Aid unit practising impact litigation. [6:26] Law students are ready for alternative pathways to enter into changemaking areas of practice. [8:31] Jacqueline details...

Rhiannon Thomas is an attorney, notary, conveyancer and administrator of deceased estates in practice in Cape Town. She is also a values consultant and accredited Conscious Contracts® provider and trainer. Rhiannon founded Milkwood in 2012 with a mission to bring a more expansive, personal and meaningful approach to Antenuptial Contracts, Cohabitation Agreements and Wills through inter-disciplinary collaboration. Rhiannon came to this work knowing from an early point in her career that she ...

Bernie Hung is a lawyer and the founder and CEO of Blue Box Rocket. She has a unique approach to serving clients, combining her experience as an IP and technology lawyer, her business acumen from being Asia-Pacific in-house counsel to a top multinational luxury group and her executive coaching skills, backed up by well-regarded courses and certifications. We talk about how through her work she brings out the best in entrepreneurs and CEOs who are driven to make the world a better ...

Amar Dhall is a true polymath. Over the last 15-years Amar’s career has evolved from being an award-winning university lecturer and obtaining a Ph.D. to exploring the intersection between law and quantum mechanics. We talk about his research into the deeper, quantum implications of law and his more recent work in supporting lawyers to understand their trauma responses, to make them better lawyers. Show notes [1:42] Amar explains his pre-law career in property development and m...

Nicolle Kopping-Pavars is a family lawyer and fertility law expert based in Toronto, Canada.​ She is also a trained meditation and mindfulness teacher. We talk about her professional and spiritual journey as she reinvented herself after moving from South Africa to Canada, how she developed her family and fertility law practice and how she is now a guide for her clients as they undergo transformations in their lives and their families. We touch on the meaning of family, why it's so important t...

Idara Bassey is a lawyer and expert on lawyer wellbeing. She is an author of Reflections of a Mystical Sistah, a channeled book, and her new book on rethinking the rules of lawyering is due to be published in 2022. ​We talk about the place of spirituality in the modern corporation, how leaders need to do inner work to lead today's corporations, and how lawyering is changing to meet the growing demands of people who are awakening to their deeper spiritual needs. Show notes [2:18] Idara...

Dr Pearlette J. Ramos is a leader, lawyer, social justice advocate, and writer. She is a world traveller who has expanded herself through travel and now coaches other women to do the same. ​We talk about her upcoming documentary, Three (Extra)ordinary Women, which will chronicle the journey of three women who have overcome personal tragedy and obstacles to triumph in their lives, while coming together to climb Mount Kilimanjaro. Three (Extra)ordinary Women documentary: https://ww...

Chamundai Curran is the owner of The Laughter Lawyer, a training organisation for wellness, personal effectiveness, relationship building, conflict resolution and coaching and mentoring programs, based on laughter yoga. Chamundai coaches and mentors lawyers and professionals who are interested in spirituality, feel called to look more deeply into life, their purpose, and who seek to be of service to humanity using their unique gifts and talents.​ We talk about how laughter is a true he...

Kelly McGrath, Esq., is the owner of Kelly McGrath Law, PLLC, a non-litigation law firm focusing on business and family law mediations, restorative justice cases, and collaborative divorce. Her practice in Tallahassee, Florida puts compassion and listening first and she has developed client protocols to ensure this. ​ We talk about her mission as a peacebuilder and how she has brought that into her work, something she demonstrates through example after powerful example of the law being an in...

Paul Watchman is a leading figure and recognised legal authority in areas connected with ESG (environmental, social and governance). Through a long association with the UN, he closely scrutinises law firms and their developing ESG practices. We talk about the widespread greenwashing by Big Law, how large law firms really see their ESG practices as recruitment tools and use it for glossy promotional material, but in large part fail to walk the walk on diversity, wellbeing, sustainabilit...