In this episode of The Protégé Podcast, host Jerome Doraisamy speaks with Baybridge solicitor Jennie Siow, who recently founded The Legal Mixer, about her experience and social circle at law school, the work she does at Baybridge, her experience and observations of the struggles that new and emerging practitioners have when it comes to maintaining genuine connections, and the flow-on consequences of such social isolation in a tough vocation.

Siow also details her efforts to create new opportunities for social interaction for new practitioners, why she thinks such social gatherings are so important, the benefits that recent graduates can glean from such social occasions, how they can overcome fears about their capacity to engage, broader, practical steps to be taken to ensure that one can maintain the connections they have already formed.

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And check out some of our other episodes here:

• Becoming commercially minded
• The benefits of play, experimentation, and creativity for emerging lawyers
• Addressing male violence is ‘everyone’s responsibility’