Legal Grounds | Conversations on Life, Leadership & Law
After over three decades in the legal-trenches, Mike Bassett has learned to appreciate two things: good conversation & good coffee.
Legal Grounds is an ongoing series of interviews with the people who are shaping our world - legal or otherwise. Witty, irreverent, & always thoughtful, these brief discussions fall somewhere between “Night Court” & Hopper’s “Nighthawks At The Diner”.
With that in mind, we promise your coffee will still be warm when the podcast is done.
(Legal Grounds was written, recorded, and produced by Dust Devil Press)
Legal Grounds | Conversations on Life, Leadership & Law
Legal Grounds | Shelly A. Walker on Listening as Collaboration, the Power of Being Present, & the Importance of Intentionality on Both Sides of Mentorship
It's no secret in the legal community that a seasoned paralegal can outmatch most first-year lawyers.
And probably second-year.
And sometimes even... well, you get the point.
Climbing the career ladder is far from uncommon in the Legal Profession, and when I think back on it, nearly every paralegal we've hired has had some prior job that was at least somewhat legally-adjacent.
But what IS rare is for someone to do it all in one place.
And when it does happen, you're almost certain to find that mentorship played the deciding factor.
My guest this week is Shelly A. Walker, Director of Legal Administration at Posinelli.
Prior to joining the management team, Shelly was a paralegal who specialized in Products Liability and Toxic Torts, but her journey began as docket-clerk who - as she puts it - found the right mentor at the right time.
This is most certainly a conversation for the Leaders listening in this week, and my hope is that Shelly’s story can serve as a reminder why making the time to teach others is a heck of a way to learn about ourselves.
Enjoy the show.