Episode 53. The Golden Donut Trap with Brett Colvin
About Our Guest:
Brett Colvin, CEO & Cofounder of Goodlawyer, joined me for a conversation about legal careers, in-house work and what it would actually take to make law a more desirable profession.
We got into the gap between how legal success looks from the outside and how it can feel when you are living it day to day.
We talked about the early structures that push lawyers toward narrow definitions of success, the moment he knew firm life was no longer a fit, and how that experience shaped the business he went on to build. We also got into flexible in-house models, visibility on LinkedIn, the importance of knowing exactly who you serve and why AI matters most when it removes the drudgery that keeps lawyers stuck in low value work.
Listeners will leave with a more honest lens on legal career design, in-house resourcing, and the kinds of structural changes that could make the profession work better for more people.
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