Aug 21, 2026 · 41 min · 11 segments
Send us Fan Mail Ben McDermott first picked up a guitar when he was seven years old and started playing publicly in his early teens. After studying…
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Wendy YehHostJustChat acknowledges First Nations people as the traditional custodians of the land on which we work in Australia.
We pay our respects to elders past, present and emerging, and to the youth who are working towards a brighter tomorrow.
Hi, I'm Wendy Yeh, and you're listening to JustChat, a podcast exploring the many perspectives of those making and shaping the law.
I've been privileged to chat to practitioners from different sectors and backgrounds, and it never ceases to amaze me the different paths taken to a career in law.
For some, their journeys may have been more linear, knowing from the outset or a young age that they wanted to become a lawyer.
He first picked up a guitar as a young child and embarked on a professional musician career before pivoting to law.
In this episode, he chats about his musical past, how his career as a professional musician helped him to develop a sense of logic and methodology that he's been able to use in his legal career.
He also chats about how he found a job in the most unlikely of places through his barber.
Because, you know, speaking of judges, like we're so fortunate to be able to kind of talk to practitioners and judicial officers with a variety of different backgrounds and different arcs, I guess, into their career in law.
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JustChat acknowledges First Nations people as the traditional custodians of the land on which we work in Australia.
We pay our respects to elders past, present and emerging, and to the youth who are working towards a brighter tomorrow.
Hi, I'm Wendy Yeh, and you're listening to JustChat, a podcast exploring the many perspectives of those making and shaping the law.
I've been privileged to chat to practitioners from different sectors and backgrounds, and it never ceases to amaze me the different paths taken to a career in law.
For some, their journeys may have been more linear, knowing from the outset or a young age that they wanted to become a lawyer.
He first picked up a guitar as a young child and embarked on a professional musician career before pivoting to law.
In this episode, he chats about his musical past, how his career as a professional musician helped him to develop a sense of logic and methodology that he's been able to use in his legal career.
He also chats about how he found a job in the most unlikely of places through his barber.
Because, you know, speaking of judges, like we're so fortunate to be able to kind of talk to practitioners and judicial officers with a variety of different backgrounds and different arcs, I guess, into their career in law.
