Author: Karima Gulick

Mitch Jackson enjoys combining law, social media, and technology to disrupt, hack, and improve his clients’ companies, causes, and professional relationships. He’s an award-winning 2013 California “Litigation Lawyer of the Year” who has been profiled at Inc.com and named on Mashable as one of the top 50 influencers to follow on Snapchat. In addition to being on shows with Katie Couric and Anderson Cooper, he’s also shared business and branding tips from the stage at Tony Robbin’s Business Mastery Event before … Read More

Nicole Abboud started the Gen Why Lawyer Podcast 3 years ago.  To celebrate the 3-year anniversary, I interviewed Nicole about how the podcast idea came about, how she started it and the main lessons she’s learned in the past few years.  Nicole is a business owner, Millennial speaker, adjunct college professor, attorney, and podcaster. She loves studying businesses: why they exist, how they operate, what sort of impact they make, how they grow, how they die!  She … Read More

Annette Stepanian is an attorney and business strategist who equips other creative professionals and small business owners with the legal and business knowledge needed to confidently start and grow their businesses.  After practicing litigation at a national law firm in San Francisco for over five years, she took a leap of faith and started her own creative business. Today, through one-on-one services, contract templates, trainings and her Office Talk podcast, Annette strives to make the … Read More

Kelly Phillips Erb is a Senior Editor at Forbes where she writes about tax and tax policy; she also serves as editorial lead for Bankable by Forbes. She was previously a managing shareholder at The Erb Law Firm, P.C., where she focused on tax law for businesses and families. Kelly is also a mom to three children, so she can add “dinosaur expert,” “cupcake baker” and “hockey mom” to her resume. In this episode, she shares … Read More

Andrea Evans is an intellectual property attorney who started the Kidgineer program, a creative and fun educational program that captures kids’ interest! Kidgnieer is designed to accelerate kids interest and growth in science, technology, mathematics and engineering or STEM. In this episode, she shares her story about how that program came about, how she got started with her TV appearances and how she grew her Intellectual Property practice.

What You’ll Learn in this Episode:

–  … Read More

Sonia Lakhany is a trademark attorney and the owner of her own award-winning bicoastal trademark law practice with offices in Atlanta, Georgia and Orange County, California. In addition to her practice, Sonia has recently become well-known for her online courses teaching other attorneys content in the areas of practicing trademarks and marketing and branding their law practices.

What You’ll Learn in this Episode:

– How to build a strong reputation in your field,

– How Sonia started … Read More

Andrea Bird, a founding attorney at Bird Law Group, shares her story about how she became a leader in the cannabis law field, a new and ever changing area of the law, going from Big law to starting her own practice, how she managed to have a thriving practice in the span of a few months and her pro bono cases where, changed her client’s life, and set legal precedent ensuring that she helps others in the same situation.  A lot … Read More

For this episode, I interviewed Zack Levine.  We had a great conversation about how he became a video game lawyer, interesting facts about video game law and the clients he works with, and his advice on becoming an expert in a new area of the law.  Zack is a partner with Wolk & Levine, LLP, a business and intellectual property law firm in Glendale, California. He is an Adjunct Professor of Law at Southwestern Law School and Glendale College of Law, where … Read More

Toya Gavin, Esq. is an attorney, legal consultant and founder of Legally Bold, an online coaching and consulting agency where Toya shows women how to make an impact and income with their law degree while creating a life they love. She challenges women in the law to peel back the legal label and reveal the person and professional they always wanted to be.

Before founding Legally Bold, Toya worked as a prosecutor and owned a solo practice focused on … Read More

Ed Monsour is a tax attorney and a professor.  He joins us in this episode to share his journey from working at the Ohio lottery office with deferred prize winners to starting his own practice, and how teaching allowed him the travel the world.  He also shares tips on how to build an efficient practice and attract your best clients.

What you’ll learn in this episode:

• How using the Pareto Principle (80-20 rule), focusing and attracting your best clients can save