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On the air: Corporate Counsel’s top 5 podcast episodes for 2019
This year Lawyers Weekly launched a dedicated show for its in-house audience. Check out which episodes were the most downloaded for 2019.
Jerome Doraisamy
The Corporate Counsel Show has, since inception, spanned myriad issues pertaining to the day-to-day lives of in-house lawyers and legal teams. 2020 promises to be no different. But what episodes were the most sought after this year?
Greenpeace Australia general counsel Katrina Bullock – donning a Greenpeace t-shirt, no less – spoke about why it is so important for corporate institutions to be both commercially minded and environmentally sustainable.
On the first episode that ever ran on The Corporate Counsel Show Dr Madeleine Hartley (who won this year’s Excellence Award at the Corporate Counsel Awards) was our first-ever guest. We chatted about her journey from regional NSW to her current work for WaterNSW, as well as the role of corporate counsel in the broader business context and her advice for others within the space wishing to integrate themselves as a trusted in-house counsel.
This remains the only “panel episode” run on The Corporate Counsel Show… and seeing how well it did, clearly, we need to run more group discussions!
Here, a trio from Coca-Cola Amatil – group general counsel Betty Ivanoff, deputy group general counsel Richard Conway and Australian general counsel Michelle Monteleone – came in to speak about the key features of a successful in-house legal team, how they create opportunities in-house to keep their team engaged and how integral it is to cater to the idiosyncratic needs of individual employees.
Governance concerns have been front of mind for all in-house lawyers this year. It is therefore not surprising that the most-downloaded in-house episode for the year was a conversation with Governance Institute of Australia CEO Megan Motto.
In this practical and insightful discussion, Ms Motto outlined the challenges and issues company secretaries are facing, what makes a good company secretary and how the ability to understand personality and behaviours will play in one’s favour.
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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