Explore every episode of the podcast Non-Billable Hours
| Title | Pub. Date | Duration | |
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| The Fall of Weil Gotshal | 29 oct. 2026 | 00:09:23 | |
Recorded October 27, 2026, before Bloomberg Law reported on October 28 that Weil Gotshal & Manges plans to wind down. This is the audio edition of my full video explainer from the day before that report. My updated Hearsay piece is linked below. Watch the full video explainer | |||
| T20 Law Student's Guide to Landing Big Law | Timeline & Gameplan Explained (2026) | 07 août 2026 | 00:16:56 | |
Bryson breaks down what top law students at leading law schools can expect on their journey to landing a Big Law summer associate position in 2026. ___ Job board of all anticipated and open student positions in Big Law (Summer & entry-level): https://mosaicsearchpartners.com/student-docket [We do not earn commission and are not paid by firms or students for this service. It was created purely to support students] ___ | |||
| The #1 Thing Big Law Partners Regret Not Doing Sooner: Building & Maintaining Relationships (w/ Eva Wisnik) | Law Student Mentorship Series | 29 juin 2026 | 00:19:00 | |
This is a conversation about common pitfalls in and best practices for building a network as a law student or attorney, through the lens of feedback received from the nation's top rainmaking partners and business development professionals. I personally consider Eva Wisnik one of my close mentors whom I respect deeply and think extraordinarily highly of. This is just one slice of the wisdom that Eva has spent decades discovering and refining. In my opinion, this is part of a must-have go-to toolkit for any top law student looking to set themselves up for success in both the immediate and long term. _____ About Eva Wisnik Eva is one of the most trusted voices in legal talent, a career strategist and executive recruiter who has spent over three decades shaping how America's most prestigious law firms hire, train, and retain their people. She founded Wisnik Career Enterprises in 1996 after running recruitment and training at Schulte Roth & Zabel and Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft, and over the years has worked with more than 120 law firms, including much of the Am Law 100, placed over 1,000 recruitment and marketing professionals, and delivered more than 800 training programs nationwide. She earned a degree in Psychology from Barnard College (Columbia) and an MBA in marketing from Fordham. Her insights have been featured in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, and Bloomberg. _____ | |||
| Psychologically Preparing for Big Law (w/ Sarah Cottrell) | Law Student Mentorship Series | 17 avr. 2026 | 01:02:15 | |
Law Student Mentorship Series [Mosaic Scholars/ Network] Big Law doesn't break folks down because the substantive work is "too hard". If you made it all the way to the AMLAW 100, odds are you can handle the intellectual rigor. Big Law can break attorneys down by, often times, being "psychologically unsafe", and most high-achievers have no framework for guarding against that when they walk in. I (Bryson Malcolm) talk with Sarah Cottrell, founder of Former Lawyer and host of The Former Lawyer Podcast. Sarah graduated from The University of Chicago Law School and spent 3 years in big law before transitioning to a judiciary role, and she's spent the last several years interviewing and working with many lawyers who left Big Law as well. We get into why firms are good at marketing mental health, yet are often bad at supporting it, how toxic partners run teams in ways that train associates to assume they're the problem, and what's going on economically that lets some problematic rainmakers keep their power no matter what they do. The conversation also moves into what happens when someone reports misconduct, why calling a labor and employment attorney before HR is often the better move, how bias shifts the math for women and lawyers of color, and why burnout is baked into the pyramid model rather than a reflection of personal weakness. The back half of the episode is about preparation. We talk through what a real support system looks like before you start: a therapist who understands trauma, a short list of non-negotiables you've written down somewhere you'll actually look at, a network of former big law attorneys who can reality-check you, and friendships outside the lawyer bubble that keep you grounded when the firm starts feeling like your whole world. Worth a listen if you're starting at a firm soon or trying to figure out whether what you've been feeling is you or the Big Law environment itself. | |||
| Big Law Journalism & Media (w/ Bloomberg Law's Tatyana Monnay) | 25 janv. 2025 | 00:28:51 | |
Tatyana Monnay is a Reporter at Bloomberg Law | |||
| One of the Only Big Law Firms I'd Fully Trust (w/ Gibson Dunn's Connie Lee) | 12 janv. 2025 | 00:39:16 | |
Is all of Big Law the same? Can we believe law firm marketing of inclusion, attorney development, and firm cohesion? During our time in the field, a handful of firms have legitimately proven themselves as ideal destinations for Associates, especially those from historically underrepresented backgrounds! Gibson Dunn is certainly one of those firms and in this episode, Bryson Malcolm sits down with Connie Lee, a midlevel Associate in Gibson Dunn's Antitrust & Competition Group in Washington, D.C., to have a down-to-earth chat about her life and career at the firm. Bryson Malcolm is a JD graduate of Columbia Law School who previously practiced law at Skadden and Fried Frank (Real Estate). Founder & CEO of Mosaic Search Partners. | |||