Memes Matter...Use Your Law Skills to Make More Money 🤣⚖️

It’s no secret that over the last few years, video content and social media platforms such as TikTok are taking the marketing world as we know it by storm…

This week’s guest says it’s vital that the law industry embraces this new digital age to continue to inspire, grow and ultimately, generate new business!

Back in 2019, Matt Margolis was an attorney at a law firm…burnt out and frustrated. 😞

Between managing an intense work schedule, he’d post funny law-related content on social media. 😂

Unfortunately, the partners at his firm weren’t too happy about it.

At this point, most would’ve stopped posting….NOT MATT!

And much to Matt’s SURPRISE, he found other lawyers, law students, paralegals, legal assistants, legal operations professionals in the legal industry who had voiced similar frustrations.

Those same folks shared their experiences and stories.

There was a whole community out there of people who felt that same way Matt did.

So he kept posting….BRAVE move!

He started making more jokes. More memes. More TikTok’s.

One of his recent Twitter posts received over 140,000 likes!

By producing more content he saw more and more people relate and share their perspectives.

Eventually, the community led him to new roles and a move away from the traditional career path of a lawyer.

Matt landed the cool role of Head of Community at Lawtrades - a new work model empowering legal professionals to monetise their skills. 👏🏼

Matt is now responsible for creating engaging content for the legal community and to help grow their fantastic platform with the great people who are already a part of it!

I had an absolute blast chatting with Matt and learning more about his journey on our Legally Speaking Podcast ™️.

In this episode, Matt & I discuss:

👉 What Matt’s role as Head of Community entails

👉 The significance of community in the legal industry

👉 How to become a creative content creator in the law space

👉 How creating legal media content became a gateway for Matt’s career

👉 The importance of social media in today’s world

👉 Why using humour in Matt’s content is important to him

🎧 Where can I listen to this episode? 🎧

The podcast is available to listen to on the Legally Speaking Podcast website and all major platforms (Spotify, Apple etc.)

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Weekly Alumni Guests Shoutouts

1) I. Stephanie Boyce - President of The Law Society

Stephanie became the 177th, the sixth female, the first black office holder, the first person of colour and the second in-house solicitor in almost fifty years to become president of The Law Society of England and Wales. ⚖️

It was an absolute honour to attend The President’s special fundraising gala dinner last week. This was to continue to support and highlight the essential work of Stephanie’s nominated presidential charities including LawCare - Legal mental health & wellbeing charity, The Sutton Trust and The Access to Justice Foundation.

The money raised from the event will help to fund the vital services and support they provide in making a difference to lives!

As many will know I am passionate about raising awareness around mental health having lost family members over the years.

Thanks to the wonderful Elizabeth Rimmer, who made it possible for me to join the Lawcare table. I was in fine company joining the wonderful Justin Farrance, Joanna Hughes, Julian Richard, Amir Ali OBE and many others.

The event was wonderfully hosted by Christina Blacklaws (she/her).

Stephanie’s mission…to leave the legal profession more diverse and inclusive than the one she entered.

As Stephanie presidency concludes next month; she has achieved so much and contributed to many great changes in the legal profession!

Kudos to Stephanie; thank you for all you have done and for a wonderful memorable event.

In Stephanie's episode we discuss:

🙌 What inspires her to pursue a career in the legal sector

🙌 How does it feel and what exactly does it mean to be the first black president and 6th female president of The Law Society of England & Wales

🙌 What are the highlights of her career

🙌 Her plans to improve access to justice across England & Wales and how technology can help this

🙌 Her plans and passion on making the legal profession much more diverse

🙌 What are the biggest barriers to the legal profession today

🎧 You can listen to Stephanie's episode HERE🎧

2) Frederick Penney - Founder & CEO of Penney & Associates

Congratulations to Frederick as last week GW3 and City of Atlanta issued him a Lifetime Achievement Award last week! 👏

Fred is of the highest AVVO rated Personal Injury Attorney (a rating of 10 – ”Superb Lawyer”) and has featured on top media platforms such as Forbes (Fred’s Forbes Interview) and Entrepreneur (Fred’s Entrepreneur Interview). He has experience handling high profile cases and this has enabled him to become quite the ‘famous’ PI lawyer and has millions followers on Instagram too! Alongside his busy law career, Fred also founded Radio Law Talk, a popular radio station offering educational and motivational conversations with other legal professionals in the industry!

In Frederick's episode we discuss:

🙌 What a PI attorney is and what type of cases they typically deal with

🙌 How Fred built his law firm and his journey to expansion across different states

🙌 Fred’s popular radio show, Radio Law Talk and how this is making waves in the industry

🙌 His investment in racing, which earned Fred the nickname ‘Super Lawyer Frederick’

🙌 What Fred gets up to over on Instagram and how he built such a large following

🙌 What’s next for Fred and his team at Penney & Associates

🎧 You can listen to Frederick's episode HERE🎧

3) Hannah Beko - Head of Mission at Legal Studio Solicitors

Hannah is changing the culture in law through coaching, consulting and training. I thoroughly enjoyed attending her book launch event yesterday, kindly hosted by Leigh Day and organised by Jill Paterson.

Hannah and Dr. Sally Penni MBE explored what makes an authentic lawyer!

In Hannah's episode we discuss:

🙌 The role of the property partner

🙌 Hannah’s experiences and journey into the world of business ownership

🙌 The resources available in her website ‘Authentically Speaking’

🙌 Hannah’s advice for running multiple businesses

🙌 What Hannah’s podcast ‘Build Your Legal Business’ is all about

🎧 You can listen to Hannah's episode HERE🎧

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Francesca M. Witzburg⚖️™️®©, Mitch Jackson, Esq. & I will be hosting the wonderful Mariette Clardy-Davis to discuss all things Web3 and the law!

Other News

Many of you will know I have been LinkedIn BETA tester for a number of their products (including LinkedIn Audio, Carousels & Templates). I thoroughly enjoy sharing my thoughts and feedback and seeing these implemented on the platform.

Having hosted a series of Townhalls for many months for the audio community; I was kindly invited to LinkedIn’s Dublin Head Office (which is amazing!).

Last week, I was also invited to LinkedIn’s London office!

A HUGE thank you to my AWESOME LinkedIn Creator Manager, Daniel Markovits for hosting and showing me around.

The message from LinkedIn is that the platform is changing (we know it’s not just about jobs anymore!) and they want to encourage people to have a voice.

Everyone has a story, everyone has wisdom to share!

Daniel and I discussed many things including:

👉 CONTENT CREATION - highlighting the value of knowledge sharing

👉 PERSONAL BRANDING - to remember this takes time and to show up as your true authentic self

👉 THOUGHT LEADERSHIP - collaborate and educate to position yourself as an authority

👉 COMMUNITY BUILDING - utilise the LinkedIn features that best suits you that enables you to be consistent

👉 LINKEDIN SUPPORT - creator managers such as Daniel, Priscillia Mudiaki, Ash Turner, Patrick Shea-Stamford are here to help creators

I am however, also a huge fan of the future of work platform Entre . A platform to watch!

I have been advising the team, they have the ability to be nimble, listen to their community and create a cutting edge product fit for purpose now and the future!

Shout out to their Founder Michael Marra & Head of Community Sean Snyder along with the wider Entre team, for all their hard work and efforts in supporting their community builders, creators and entrepreneurs.

Curious and want to learn more?

You join Entre HERE

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Capital Markets Associate - Top US Law Firm - 2 - 4  PQE (London)

Crypto Lawyers - Top 10 UK International Law Firm - 2+ PQE (London )

Litigation & Arbitration Associate - Top US International Law Firm - 2+ PQE (London)

IP/IT/Commercial and Data Protection Associate - Top US Law Firm - 4 - 5 PQE (London)

Private Equity Associate - Top US Law Firm - 2 - 6 PQE (London)

Real Estate Associate - Top 10 UK International Law Firm - 0-4 PQE (London)

Fund Finance Associate - Top US Law Firm - 2 - 6 PQE (London)

Investment Funds Associate - Top US Law Firm - 1 - 4 PQE (London)

If you cannot see a job suitable for you, but are interested to hear about more jobs at KC Partners, please send your CV to info@kcpartners.co.uk to be considered.

At KC Partners, we are committed to promoting diversity and equality of opportunities across organisations and we welcome applications from suitable candidates regardless of race or racial group, religion or belief, age, disability, sexual orientation, sex, gender re-assignment and gender identity, marriage and civil partnership, and pregnancy, maternity and paternity.

For now folks...OTTO & OUT :)

PS. Otto turns 2 on Saturday...my fur son is growing up fast!

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