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Hello Monday with Jessi Hempel

In the Room Where It Happens with Lindsay Harrison

Hello Monday with Jessi Hempel

LinkedIn

Careers, Business

4.71.1K Ratings

🗓️ 17 August 2020

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

Jessi talks with lawyer Lindsay Harrison about loving your job, the importance of knowing who you're trying to convince of something, and the power of passing the mic.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hi, I'm Jonathan Fields.

0:02.6

Tune into my podcast for conversations about the sweet spot between work, meeting, and

0:07.8

joy.

0:08.8

And also listen to other people's questions about how to get the most out of that thing we call work.

0:13.7

Check out Spark, wherever you enjoy podcasts.

0:16.7

From the news team at LinkedIn, I'm Jesse Hemphill, and this is Hello Monday, our show about the changing nature of work and how that work is changing us.

0:30.0

We've had a lot of people on the show who started a career in law and then left it to do something they really loved.

0:36.0

And if you've been listening for a while, it might start to seem like being a lawyer is, well, tedious.

0:42.0

So that's why I ask my friend Lindsay Harrison to come on the show. See, Lindsay's a lawyer who loves her job. She's a partner at a firm called Jenner and Block, and she does all kinds of work, including a lot of pro bono work.

0:57.0

She often sues the federal government.

0:59.0

Like, for example, Lindsay challenged the president's attempt to end the DACA program, which shields some

1:04.7

undocumented youth from getting deported, and she won. If you've ever thought about a career

1:10.0

in law, or if you're just wondering what exactly lawyers do, well this

1:14.3

episodes for you, but even if you haven't, if you're just wondering what it means to

1:19.0

have a 24-7 hardcore career that you really love, you'll get a lot out of listening to

1:24.9

Lindsay. I asked Lindsay to start by giving us an audio tour of a place that few of

1:29.5

us will ever get to enter, the Supreme Court.

1:33.3

Lindsay spent a bunch of time there.

1:35.0

In fact, she argued her very first case as a lawyer there.

1:38.6

We get to hear what it's like to be in that room,

1:41.3

to make a case in that room and why you have a voice there even if

1:46.0

you've never set foot in the building. Here's Lindsay.

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