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Protégé: Becoming commercially minded
Understanding the needs of the business you work for, and becoming more than simply a legal practitioner, is essential for any junior lawyer looking to rise through the ranks.
Jessa Sargento
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In this episode of The Protégé Podcast, host Jerome Doraisamy welcomes back UniSuper legal counsel Chloe Giamadakis, an award-nominated in-house lawyer, to discuss how and why she realised that being commercially minded was going to be so critical to her professional development, whether law school prepares one to think beyond technical legal skills, and why commercial know-how is so important in the current climate.
Giamadakis also delves into evolving expectations and understandings of what it means to be a lawyer, the first steps to take in becoming commercially minded, questions to ask of one’s self and the law department, how and where networking takes place post-pandemic, how to have conversations with other business functions, lessons she has learnt along the way, understanding the needs of various stakeholders, making time for such professional development, and why she is a better lawyer for being commercially minded.
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