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Top 20 podcast episodes of 2021
After a record-breaking year of downloads, we look back at the most-downloaded episodes of The Lawyers Weekly Show in the last 12 months.
Jerome Doraisamy
The Lawyers Weekly Show has – as of the time of filing this story – received over 300,000 downloads in this calendar year. That amounts to an average of 25,000 downloads per month and almost 6,000 downloads per week. At its peak in 2021, the podcast received 33,000 downloads in a single month.
“Podcast episodes allow us to dive deeper – not only into the myriad issues, challenges and trends facing legal professionals of all stripes, but also into the personal stories that underpin how best those professionals can navigate what is in front of them,” he said.
“We’re thrilled to see such significant movement on this medium for our audience, and we will continue to up the ante in 2022.”
To view the full list of episodes published on The Lawyers Weekly Podcast Network in 2021, click here.
The top 20 episodes for this year were:
20. Overcoming the ‘golfing lawyer’ mindset
19. The changing nature of leadership in law
18. Board work makes you a better lawyer
17. Lawyers must be anti-fragile
16. Lawyers need to be better public speakers
15. Space law, IP and trade secrets
14. Soft skills are more important than ever
13. What clients want post-pandemic
12. Legal ops: A ‘meaningful and valuable’ vocational path
11. Lawyers must be more visible
10. Employment contracts are insurance policies
9. What new partners need to know
8. Who pays the penalty for breaches of the WHS Act?
7. Lawyers are ‘way too nice’ with fees and billing
6. The ‘public interest’ defence to defamation
5. Making exercise non-negotiable in the working week
4. Litigators in for a year of ‘drastic change’
3. Van living and alternative legal lifestyles
2. Breaking up with a bad boss
1. ‘I wanted to go to sleep and not wake up again’
Jerome Doraisamy
Jerome Doraisamy is the editor of Lawyers Weekly. A former lawyer, he has worked at Momentum Media as a journalist on Lawyers Weekly since February 2018, and has served as editor since March 2022. He is also the host of all five shows under The Lawyers Weekly Podcast Network, and has overseen the brand's audio medium growth from 4,000 downloads per month to over 60,000 downloads per month, making The Lawyers Weekly Show the most popular industry-specific podcast in Australia. Jerome is also the author of The Wellness Doctrines book series, an admitted solicitor in NSW, and a board director of Minds Count.
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