Fiftyfaces Focus - Inspiring People in the Law
25 episodes - English - Latest episode: 10 months ago -The Fiftyfaces Focus series builds on the successful model of The Fiftyfaces Podcast by showcasing the richness and diversity of the law by focusing on its people and their stories. We meet with people who have had unusual career paths, sometimes visceral experience with discrimination and its fallout, who have had lived experience that informs their perspective and who have displayed resilience and persistence to achieve their goals.
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Episode 21: Maud Sarlieve: Addressing the Environmental and Climate Crisis through Creative Legal Thinking
September 13, 2023 00:00 - 21 minutes - 19.4 MBMaud Sarlieve is an expert in International Criminal Law, International Humanitarian Law, Human Rights and a leading authority in the development of creative legal thinking to address the environmental and climate crisis. Her professional commitments and casework have taken her to conflict and post conflict environments in SE Asia, the Middle East, Central and East Africa, Latin America, The Balkans and Eastern Europe. She is currently Judge Assessor with the French National Court ...
Episode 20: Susan Ahern - Arbitrator: The Sporting Life - The Changing World of Sports Law
June 28, 2023 00:00 - 40 minutes - 37.5 MBSusan Ahern who is a barrister, international arbitrator and accredited mediator with a specialization in sports law and regulation. She is currently Chair of the Sports Law Bar Association of Ireland, and formerly was General Counsel for World Rugby/ Rugby World Cup limited. She has over 25 years experience as an iNED including RTE, World Wheelchair Rugby, UCI Cycling World Championships, Irish Horseracing Regulatory Board and the Residential Tenancies Board. Our conversation sta...
Episode 19: Karen Killalea of Maples Group Ireland - Trends in Employment Law and other White Knuckle Rides
June 22, 2023 00:00 - 44 minutes - 40.5 MBKaren Killalea is a Partner and Head of Employment at Maples Group Ireland. She has over 20 years of experience in advising employers on employment law, disputes, change, compliance and HR best practice. Our conversation starts with Karen's thirst for adventure which developed early and she put into action during her college years. We learn about the benefit of not having a set plan, living by one's wits and of breaking into a new educational and work culture. From London to It...
Episode 18: David Carthy of DLA Piper Ireland: Business Building with a Focus on Values
June 14, 2023 00:00 - 28 minutes - 26.2 MBDavid Carthy is Managing Partner Ireland of DLA Piper. He was previously a partner at William Fry in Dublin as well as President of the Irish Exporters Association.. He previously spent over 7 years with the Ireland India Business Association where he spent 5 years as Chairman. Our conversation starts with David's path into law and his early focus on the commercial aspects of his practice. He was intentional about building business networks through trade bodies and held variou...
Episode 1: Inspiring People in Law - Series 1 2023
June 13, 2023 00:00 - 5 minutes - 7.48 MBIn our first legal series of 2023 we are delighted to bring together three voices from the Irish legal scene and one from the UK bar. We discuss the challenge of employment law and its evolution, how to build a branch office of a law firm from scratch through focusing on values, the benefits of professional sport and legal practice and the burgeoning and fast-paced development of the field of Sports law. We look first a model for building a firm from scratch, by scrupulously fo...
Episode 17: BONUS - Christian Scotland-Williamson: Why the Standard is the Standard - in Professional Rugby, the NFL and life
December 07, 2022 00:00 - 24 minutes - 22.7 MBChristian Scotland-Williamson is a two sport athlete who played Premiership rugby at a professional level in the UK, and then moved to the US where he played NFL football with the Pittsburgh Steelers. While playing sport he completed an MSc in International Business and he is currently pursuing a course to become a barrister and is a broadcaster for TalkSport. Our conversation - being released as a bonus in advance of our 2023 Inspiring People in Law series - dives into the world o...
Episode 12: Nancy Stern - CEO and Board Member of Allston Holdings - Networking and Empathy
June 21, 2022 00:00 - 28 minutes - 25.8 MBNancy Stern is CEO and board member at Allston Holdings LLC. She has had a 27 year career starting as a lawyer and transitioning to a financial and business oversight role. In her latest role, which saw her assume the CEO position in 2020, she led a successful sale of that company that closed in 2021. Nancy holds a number of board roles. She was the recipient of the Woman of Achievement Award granted by the anti Defamation League in 2019. We start with reflecting on how a summer p...
Episode 10: I. Stephanie Boyce, President of the Law Society of England and Wales - Persevering Until Something Happens
June 21, 2022 00:00 - 29 minutes - 27.1 MBI. Stephanie Boyce is President of the Law Society of England and Wales. She is its 177th President, the sixth female and the first person of color to hold the role. She has had an extensive career in law, including periods of The Pensions Regulator in her own consulting firm, and as a former clerk at the disciplinary and regulatory committees at the Association of Chartered certified accountants. She also holds a number of board and Trustee roles, including commissioner of the Nati...
Episode 11: Meriam Nazih Al-Rashid of Eversheds Sutherland - Rethinking International Arbitration for a World Worth Living In
June 21, 2022 00:00 - 40 minutes - 37.3 MBMeriam Nazih Al-Rashid is Global Co-Chair of International Arbitration and Co-head of the Latin American Arbitration practice at Eversheds Sutherland and is based in the New York City area. She is also an adjunct professor of law at Fordham University Law School, a peer review board member of the American Review of International Arbitration, a committee member at the Cyrus R Vance Center for International Justice, and the holder of numerous other arbitrator roles. Her areas of focus...
Episode 11: Miriam Nazih Al-Rashid of Eversheds Sutherland - Rethinking International Arbitration for a World Worth Living In
June 21, 2022 00:00 - 40 minutes - 37.3 MBMeriam Nazih Al-Rrashid is Global Co-Chair of International Arbitration and Co-head of the Latin American Arbitration practice at Eversheds Sutherland and is based in the New York City area. She is also an adjunct professor of law at Fordham University Law School, a peer review board member of the American Review of International Arbitration, a committee member at the Cyrus R Vance Center for International Justice, and the holder of numerous other arbitrator roles. Her areas of focu...
Episode 13: Olga Hancock of The Church Commissioners for England - Sustainability and Progress
June 21, 2022 00:00 - 23 minutes - 21.9 MBOlga Hancock is Deputy Head of Responsible Investment at The Church Commissioners for England. She also holds a position of chair of the policy committee at the UK Sustainable Investment and Finance Association, and is co chair of the Indonesia workstream of the Investors Policy Dialogue on Deforestation. She previously worked as a solicitor and started her career in Australia. Our conversation covers her early interest in environmental science and issues even during her study of ...
Episode 14: Kate Colleary of Pembroke Privacy - Why Trust is the New Gold and a Quest to Make the Complex Simple
June 21, 2022 00:00 - 28 minutes - 26.6 MBKate Colleary is the director at Pembroke Privacy, a data protection consulting practice, a firm she established in 2019. To assist organizations and their data protection officers achieve compliance with privacy laws. She is the country leader of the International Association of Privacy Professionals (IAPP) as well as a practicing solicitor. Kate and I were classmates at Trinity College Dublin, and we start her journey there, reflecting on how losing both of her parents when they ...
Episode 15: Aonghus Kelly - Irish Rule of Law International - On the Law of Cumulative Effect
June 21, 2022 00:00 - 37 minutes - 34.2 MBAonghus Kelly is a lawyer who has a focus on the rule of law, international criminal law, human rights and the intersection of those areas with climate justice. He is presently Executive Director at Irish Rule of Law International, (IRLI) which is the legal NGO founded by and representing the bars and law societies from both jurisdictions from the island of Ireland which works overseas. He is also a member of the Legal Action Committee at the Global Legal Action Network (GLAN), w...
Episode 16: Sheena Buddhev of Eversheds Sutherland - Team Building and the Promise of Digital Justice
June 21, 2022 00:00 - 29 minutes - 26.7 MBSheena Buddhdev is a partner at Eversheds Sutherland in their London office, with a practice area focused on complex commercial, business and insolvency disputes in both litigation and arbitration, often with a cross border element. Sheena was born and grew up in North London in an Indian family, who had moved to London from Kenya in the 1960s. She moved to study law after university and, after a few years of practicing law, she spent some time considering whether she should pivo...
Episode 9: Inspiring People in Law - 2022 - Trailer
June 15, 2022 00:00 - 5 minutes - 4.8 MBWe are delighted to bring you our 2022 Inspiring People in Law series in which we feature eight inspiring lawyers from around the globe. We examine what it is to be an effective lawyer, the importance of networks, of empathy, and sometimes the lack of importance of a standard path or trajectory. We listen to guests who have taken a path less travelled, sometimes overcoming bias, prejudice and disability to do so. We explore areas as diverse as digital justice, the intersection of ...
Episode 8: Richard Daly - Technology Enables A Vision for Change
March 21, 2022 00:00 - 17 minutes - 16.2 MBRichard Daly is an executive officer in the Irish Department of Defence. A lawschool classmate of mine, Richard graduated from Trinity College Dublin with an LLB in 1995. Richard has been completely blind from birth and we discuss his early education at St. Joseph's school for the blind and his subsequent pursuit of legal studies. We first look at how education was first accessed by him - through the use of braille, scanning equipment, and recording equipment. We then reflect ...
7. Dennis Archer - Leadership, Service and a Powerful Legacy
June 17, 2021 00:00 - 33 minutes - 46.3 MBDennis Archer has had a legendary career, as a lawyer, then as a judge on the Michigan Supreme Court and as mayor of Detroit from 1994 – 2001, and he was the first black head of the ABA. He is currently Chairman Emeritus at Dickinson Wright, a Detroit law firm, in addition to multiple Committee and Board Roles. With such an extensive resume it was hard to know where to start this podcast, and impossible to cover his whole trajectory. So we focused on three areas - his upbringing,...
6. Carolyn Saunders - The Art of Playing Many Parts
June 10, 2021 00:00 - 21 minutes - 29.2 MBAll the world’s a stage, And all the men and women merely players; They have their exits and their entrances, And one man in his time plays many parts. ~William Shakespeare Carolyn Saunders is a Partner and Head of Pensions at Pinsent Masons, one of the largest specialist pensions law teams in the UK. She focuses not just on traditional areas of pensions law, but on issues at the cutting edge of current discourse, particularly around areas such as sustainable investing, climate ris...
5. Kip Hale: Accountability and Progress - a Career in International Law
June 03, 2021 13:41 - 25 minutes - 34.7 MBKip Hale is an attorney specializing in atrocity crimes accountability, specifically investigating such crimes in conflict zones. He has spent time as Senior Counsel at the American Bar Association Center for Human Rights, and as an attorney at the UN tribunals for the former Yugoslavia and Cambodia. We start with his upbringing in Colorado, and how, for him, entering the law followed a family tradition. Where he broke with tradition was his embrace of international law, and we ta...
4. Dr. Margaret Casely-Hayford, CBE - A Renaissance Career for a Changing World
May 20, 2021 00:00 - 37 minutes - 51.2 MBDr Margaret Casely-Hayford, CBE is Chancellor of Coventry University, a role she has held for close to 4 years. She has had an extensive career in law, having been a partner at Dentons for close to 20 years, and has held roles as NED of the NHS, as a Special Trustee at Great Ormond Street Hospital Childrens’ Charity, Chair at Shakespeares’ Globe, and as a Board Member of Co-op, to name just a few. Our conversation starts with her upbringing and her journey into the law. It was no...
3. Perry Zizzi - International Adventures in Corporate Law
May 13, 2021 00:00 - 23 minutes - 32.1 MBPerry Zizzi is a Managing Partner at Dentons based in Bucharest, Romania, and he has worked in corporate law since the mid 1990s, when we met as office mates in a midtown Manhattan law firm Debevoise & Plimpton. He is the President, Founder and Board Member of the Romanian Diversity Chamber of Commerce. Our trip down memory lane starts with Perry's childhood in upstate NY where his early fascination with history led him to cycle around the town making a map of the streets. He als...
2. Judge Victoria Kolakowski - Authenticity on the Bench
May 07, 2021 00:00 - 43 minutes - 60.2 MBThe Honorable Judge Victoria Kolakowski, is a judge of the Superior Court of Alameda County, in the Bay Area of California and in November 2010 she was the first Transgender person to be elected a Trial Judge. Judge Kolakowski is a committed advocate for transgender people and makes herself available throughout the United States and internationally for conferences, seminars and interviews acting as a role-model and providing support. Her conversation with Patrick Devitt goes back t...
1. Walter H. White, Jr. - From the Knee of MLK to the Paths of World Leaders
April 29, 2021 00:00 - 47 minutes - 65.8 MBWalter White is an international business and finance lawyer, most recently with the London office of McGuireWoods, now retired and working on a number of projects. He is a committed human rights advocate and active participant in the American Bar Association’s Section on Civil Rights & Social Justice (https://www.americanbar.org/groups/crsj/) in recognition of which he received an award for distinguished service for “providing leadership to the legal profession in protecting and ad...
Fiftyfaces Focus - Inspiring People in the Law - Series 1 - Trailer
April 28, 2021 00:00 - 3 minutes - 5.37 MBWhile the original Fiftyfaces podcast series focused on investors, as a former lawyer myself, I wanted to do the same for members of the legal profession, which suffers from some of the same perceived lack of diversity and representation. In this series, co-hosted by Patrick Devitt, we have assembled a group of seven diverse lawyers, each with fascinating stories of accomplishments and career paths. They convey their passion for the law, the different paths they took through it as w...
Bonus Episode: Judge Victoria Kolakowski - Authenticity on the Bench
February 22, 2021 00:00 - 43 minutes - 59.9 MBIn this very special bonus episode of The Fiftyfaces Podcast we provide a preview of our next spin-off series Fiftyfaces Focus - Inspiring People in the law. The Honorable Judge Victoria Kolakowski, is a judge of the Superior Court of Alameda County, in the Bay Area of California and in November 2010 she was the first Transgender person to be elected a Trial Judge. Judge Kolakowski is a committed advocate for transgender people and makes herself available throughout the United St...