Foley & Lardner LLP

[gentle music] Welcome to The Path & The Practice, a podcast dedicated to sharing the professional origin stories of the attorneys, clients, and alumni of Foley & Lardner LLP, a full service law firm with over one thousand lawyers.

I'm your host, Alexis Robertson, Foley's Director of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion.

In each episode, I'll be in conversation with a different attorney, exploring their unique background, path to law school, and their legal practice.

I hope you enjoyed the conversation, and join us again next time.

And if you did enjoy it, please share it, subscribe, and leave us a review, as your feedback on the podcast is important to us.

Also, please note that this podcast may be considered attorney advertising, and is made available by Foley & Lardner LLP for informational purposes only.

This podcast does not create an attorney-client relationship.

Any opinions expressed herein do not necessarily reflect the views of Foley & Lardner LLP, its partners, or its clients.

Eric Gloria Banta gives the clearest explanation of what that scale looks like.

Eric was a corporate transactional lawyer at Foley & Lardner when we released episode 64 on October 30th, 2023.

The corporate attorneys on deals, to use a sports analogy, are kind of quarterback the deal.

So we run and organize the deal from start to finish.

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... went to Foley & Lardner, one of the most powerful laws- law firms in the country, and he took the investigation proceeds, the things they never proved against me for five years of this secret investigation [laughs] of my movie, a, a, a fantasy script.

He took it private.

Now he's making money suing me for apparently, uh, reporting to Vladimir Putin the whole time.

It's hilarious that here I am again having to hire attorneys, so I'm not doing it.

I'm not hiring an attorney.

[laughs] Well, and one thing I want to say about that, Michael, as you recount that, is, uh, for people understand, um, Foley & Lardner is one of the big- biggest firms in the world, one of the most powerful, most influential.

They also had an attorney who was one of the most successful election lawyers in the last 30, 40 years.

I truly thought I would practice some kind of law.

You know, I was fortunate to end up joining the law firm of Foley & Lardner, and I had no career aspirations to be honest with you beyond developing myself as a lawyer with that firm at that time.

But when the Brewers opportunity came along, you already had a great career, young family.

You've talked about your husband's encouragement to pursue it.

Welcome to The Path and the Practice, a podcast dedicated to sharing the professional origin stories of the attorneys, clients, and alumni of Foley & Lardner LLP, a full-service law firm with over 1,000 lawyers.

I'm your host, Alexis Robertson, Foley's Director of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion.

In each episode, I'll be in conversation with a different attorney, exploring their unique background, path to law school, and their legal practice.

enjoyed the conversation and join us again next time.

And if you did enjoy it, please share it, subscribe, and leave us a review as your feedback on the podcast is important to us.

Also, please note that this podcast may be considered attorney advertising and is made available by Foley & Lardner LLP for informational purposes only.

This podcast does not create an attorney-client relationship.

Any opinions expressed herein do not necessarily reflect the views of Foley & Lardner LLP, its partners, or its clients.

And so having that help has been massive.

having now a pro bono legal team at Foley & Lardner helping me out, having great accountants.

And I would also say just choosing the right people to work alongside me.

We have a fantastic new addition to our team named Jen Ribolo, who is our fantastic bookkeeper and doing a lot more than just keeping our books, but keeping our financials in order.