What are your observations about the legal landscape faced by young lawyers?

I would say my heart goes out to them because I think the generation of lawyers coming through now have had to face some unique challenges, really, in some respects, specific to this moment.

Number one is the pandemic.

And lawyers who were in law school are coming out of law school and entering the workforce in this weird, either remote or hybrid era.

I was so lucky

as a brand new lawyer and a young associate to have the ability when I was stymied, which occurred on a regular basis.

To just stick my head in the door of an associate a few years ahead of me to say, you know, have you ever done one of these projects before? Do you have any idea what this partner's comment in the margins of my brief means? Those sorts of things.

You hear that, audience members? Any words of wisdom? Do you specialize? Do you not specialize? What's the best path not only to get a job but to actually do well once you're in