A Path to General Counsel: Trials and Lessons Learned | Lisa Ann Cooney

02/17/23 • 41 min

Leveraging Latitude: Cultivating a Full Life in the Law

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 leadership styles to varying situations, and giving back through coaching and mentoring.

A podcast by Latitude Legal - Flexible Legal Talent.

A podcast by Latitude Legal - Flexible Legal Talent.

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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 & Analytics Officer at Shell, Alexandra also shares her insights on the growth and trajectory of legal operations in supporting the people and the business of law.

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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 and the opportunity to be found in stepping outside the confines of established expectations. She discusses:

Why, in the midst of a successful legal career, she began competing in pageants;
The challenges she faced as a “trailing spouse” after leaving her in-house position with Rolls-Royce to move to London for her husband’s job;
The advice from her life coach that helped her to embrace the possibility and value of a successful and meaningful nontraditional legal career;
How a backyard BBQ gave her the idea for the award-winning docuseries, The Expats International Ingrams;
Why she believes it is critical to tell a variety of black stories in film and television; and
How she found her purpose by charting her own path.

A podcast by Latitude Legal - Flexible Legal Talent.