May 30, 2022
There has, arguably, never been a
better time to not practise as a lawyer. This is because, Sam
Burrett says, there are myriad opportunities for the next
generation of law grads to find roles in the legal profession that
can be more stimulating and exciting than anything we’ve seen
before.
On this episode of The Protégé Podcast, host Jerome Doraisamy is
joined by Clayton Utz client relationship manager Sam Burrett to
talk about his personal journey of coming to terms with not being a
practising lawyer (something he’d envisioned for himself) and what
this said about him and his career, the social influences around
what being a lawyer is, what it means to be in a law-adjacent role,
and what such roles could look like in the future.
Mr Burrett also dives into why such law-adjacent roles
are shaping up to be so important in a post-pandemic world, what
they entail day to day, the trajectory of such roles, how to
learn more about them, why turning away from more traditional
vocational pathways is so exciting, and why there has perhaps never
been a better time to not be a lawyer.
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