Leveraging Latitude: Cultivating a Full Life in the Law

Candice and Tim welcome back Paula Davis, former attorney, workplace well-being expert, and founder and CEO of the Stress & Resilience Institute. For over 15 years, Paula has been a trusted advisor to leaders, teams, and organizations, helping them make work better.
 
Paula returns to Leveraging Latitude to discuss her newest book, Lead Well: 5 Mindsets to Engage, Retain, and Inspire Your Team. She breaks down the minds...

Leveraging Latitude hosts Candice Reed and Alex Su sit down with Stacy Bratcher, Senior Vice President and Chief Legal Officer at Cottage Health. Stacy shares her journey from law firm associate to in-house leader, offers actionable advice on aligning legal goals with business objectives, and emphasizes the importance of professional development. Learn how to build strategic partnerships, position legal departments as value-driven ...

Join Candice Reed and Tim Haley as they sit down with Jorge de la Osa, Director of Legal Recruiting at Latitude and former General Counsel, to uncover strategies for success in the legal job market. Drawing from his experience as a job seeker, hiring manager, and now recruiter, Jorge offers a unique perspective on job seeking, interviews, and hiring strategies.

The trio discuss how to effectively showcase transferable skills, approa...

In this episode of Leveraging Latitude, Candice and Alex speak with Mike Haven, Head of Global Legal Operations at Intel Corporation. With over two decades of experience in law and legal operations at leading companies like K&L Gates LLP, NetApp Inc., and Gap Inc., Mike shares insights on the rapid evolution of legal operations and the forces driving its transformation. 

Mike discusses his core philosophy: that the legal functio...

Candice Reed, Tim Haley, and Alex Su share the diverse career journeys that brought them to Latitude and the opportunities that shaped their paths. The conversation highlights the rising trend of flexible legal talent. Tim and Candice dive into how law firms and in-house teams are leveraging flexible talent to optimize workflows, manage costs, and mitigate team burnout. This strategy not only enhances productivity but also supports...

The Legal Influencers series continues as Tim Haley sits down for a conversation with William Henderson, professor and Stephen F. Burns Chair on the Legal Profession at Indiana University Maurer School of Law. 

William is the founder and principal editor of Legal Evolution, an online publication that blends theory, data, and detailed examples of successful legal industry innovation. ...

In the second installment of Latitude’s Legal Influencers series, Candice Reed speaks with Brittany Leonard, general counsel at Civix, a multinational technology company that provides services and software solutions to over 100 airports, 90 percent of U.S. nuclear power plants, and nearly half of the country’s secretaries of state.

Candice and Brittany discuss Brittany’s inspiration for her creative, authentic, no-holds-barred posts...

In the first podcast in Latitude’s Legal Influencers series, Candice Reed speaks with Alex Su, head of community development at Ironclad, a contract lifecycle management platform. Best known for his TikTok videos satirizing the legal profession, Alex is the author of “The Unauthorized Guide To Getting Into Law School With Bad Grades” and the popular newsletter, “Off The Record”. 

Candice and Alex discuss Alex’s fascinating career jo...

Royalty visits Leveraging Latitude as the reigning Mrs. Universe catches up with Candice Reed. Juanita Ingram is an attorney, author, award-winning actress and filmmaker, and she is also the first black woman to be crowned Mrs. Universe. Juanita speaks about her unique career path and the life lessons she’s learned along the way. With her characteristic charm, wit, and vulnerability, she shares how she came to embrace her full self...

Tim and guest host Michelle Culligan speak with Lisa Ann Cooney, Senior Vice President, Chief Legal Officer, and Corporate Secretary at Day & Zimmermann, listed by Forbes as one of America's Largest Private Companies. For Lisa, leadership and business are personal, and she shares the lessons she’s learned about advocating for herself and her career goals, inviting and responding to constructive criticism, adapting leadersh...

Conference season is in full swing! On this episode of Leveraging Latitude, Candice Reed and Tim Haley speak with special guest Alexandra Guajardo, Conference Director for Legal Value Network’s LVNx Conference taking place September 21-23 in Chicago. Alexandra shares an exciting preview of the conference and Legal Value Network’s unique approach to accelerating evolution in the legal industry. From her experience serving as Pricing...

Special guest Michelle Browning Coughlin, Founder and President of MothersEsquire®, joins Candice and Tim in examining systemic gender biases in the legal profession and how they hurt both men and women. Michelle sheds light on “the motherhood penalty” across professions and suggests big and small pragmatic changes that legal institutions and employers can make to help support women and parents. Exchanging personal parenting and pr...

Lawyers are the last ones to give themselves permission to step back and think, “Am I happy, should I do something else?” We often are tasked with solving everyone else’s problems, but are reluctant to ask ourselves if what we’re doing is helping us meet our own career goals or priorities.

Cynthia Moon and Joan Blackwell, Directors of Legal Recruiting and Placement at Latitude, share their personal experiences as attorneys who chose...

All eyes will be on Indianapolis as the College Football Playoff National Championship Game is scheduled for Jan. 10, at Lucas Oil Stadium. On this Leveraging Latitude episode, Tim Haley talks to Kobi Wright, Chief Legal Officer & Business Operations Director for the Capital Improvements Board of Managers (CIB), and Eric Neuburger, Attorney & Stadium Director for Lucas Oil Stadium, about their unexpected career paths and th...

The traditional law firm secondment has been used for more than 50 years to help in-house clients expand their internal bench strength to meet peak work demands. However, that doesn't mean that this model is without its disadvantages. In this episode, Candice interviews her Leveraging Latitude co-host Tim Haley and Latitude CEO Ross Booher about "The Secondment Trap" on the heels of a National Law Review article they...

In this episode, Candice talks with Yanika Smith-Bartley, lawyer and Chief Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Officer at Asurion – a global industry leader in mobile insurance, technology, and support – which has been repeatedly recognized for fostering a diverse and inclusive workplace. Nikki provides a primer for companies and law firms looking to increase the diversity of their teams by discussing specific and proven strategies f...

In recent years, attorney wellbeing has taken its rightful place among the legal industry’s discourse, and we have spoken previously on this podcast about ways employers may promote wellbeing in the workplace. Today, we talk with Reid Murtaugh, co-founder of the Lawyers Depression Project, about the breadth and depth of mental illness among practicing lawyers and the ways in which Reid (and others) are addressing this crisis. Reid ...