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Beyond Breaking News: What it Actually Takes to Get Featured in Bloomberg Law (with Editor-at-Large, Jessie Kamens)
You have expertise. You have an idea. But is it something people actually need to hear?
In this episode of So Much To Say: A Legal Podcast For People, Megan Senese and Jennifer Ramsey chat with Jessie Kamens, Editor-at-Large for Bloomberg Law’s News, Insights, and Commentary, about what makes an idea worth publishing, how to build relationships with editors, and what lawyers and legal marketers should know before hitting send on their next pitch.
Jessie pulls back the curtain on what Bloomberg Law is actually looking for: useful ideas, actionable insights, and the right people to help readers understand the issues shaping the profession. She shares why traditional client alerts aren’t cutting it, how PR and communications teams can strengthen a pitch, and why relationships with editors matter.
They also dig into how AI is changing legal thought leadership and why, no matter what tools you use, your expertise, judgment, and human perspective still need to come through.
Because getting published isn't just about producing more content. It's about having something worth saying.
You’ll hear about:
What Jessie does as Editor at Large for Bloomberg Law’s News, Insights, and Commentary
How Bloomberg Law decides which ideas and contributors are worth pursuing
Why Jessie is increasingly interested in finding the right people, not just the right topics
What makes a pitch useful, actionable, and worth someone’s click
Why traditional client alerts are no longer enough
How PR and communications teams can make lawyers’ ideas and pitches stronger
The importance of building genuine relationships with editors
Why a thoughtful subject line and a well-targeted pitch still matter
Whether it’s okay to follow up when you haven’t heard back
How Bloomberg Law’s approach to AI-assisted writing has evolved
Why AI can support your thinking without replacing your expertise or human perspective
How AI may fundamentally change the way junior lawyers learn and develop judgment
The topics Jessie wants lawyers and legal professionals to pitch right now
About Jessie Kamens:
Jessie Kamens is Editor-at-Large for Bloomberg Law’s News, Insights, and Commentary, where she works with lawyers, professors, retired judges, and other legal professionals to develop commentary on the issues shaping the profession. During her 18 years at Bloomberg and its predecessor, BNA, Jessie has held roles across legal news and product development, including leading Supreme Court news coverage and helping launch Bloomberg Law’s business of law reporting group.
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Five Real Ways to Increase Wellbeing in the Law
What lawyers and law firm leaders can change beyond offering another meditation app or telling people to take a walk.
If a law firm's entire wellbeing strategy depends on lawyers finding time for yoga after a 12-hour workday, the strategy is broken.
Lawyer wellbeing is still too often reduced to a list of things individual lawyers should squeeze into lives that are already overfilled: meditate, exercise, take a long shower, book a vacation, drink more water. Those things may help. They do not change the conditions that make people feel isolated, unable to say no, uncertain about what they want, or convinced they have to hide every part of themselves that is not useful to the firm.
In our conversation with litigation partner and lawyer-wellbeing advocate Emily Logan Stedman on So Much To Say: A Legal Podcast For People, we kept returning to a more useful definition. Wellbeing means recognizing that lawyers are whole human beings with physical, mental, professional, intellectual, relational, and personal needs. Improving it requires more than helping lawyers recover from work. It requires changing how the work is discussed, managed, and led.
01 Make it safer to say that the work is hard
The legal profession is full of smart, high-achieving people privately assuming they are the only ones who are anxious, overwhelmed, doubting themselves, or struggling to keep up. Because no one says it out loud, an extremely common experience starts to feel like an individual failure.
Emily described reaching a point when she had convinced herself she was the only one having a hard time. The shift began when a colleague opened up about what they were going through. That gave Emily permission to talk about her own experience and eventually to have more candid conversations with colleagues, friends, and family.
Firms do not need to turn every team meeting into group therapy. They do need leaders who can acknowledge that demanding work is demanding, share some of their own imperfect experiences, and respond well when someone asks for help. Lawyers can contribute by choosing one trusted person and saying what is actually happening instead of automatically answering that everything is fine. The goal is not disclosure for disclosure's sake. It is ending the performance of invincibility that keeps people isolated.
02 Ask lawyers what they actually want
Law creates a very efficient conveyor belt. Do well in school. Get the firm job. Advance to the next class year. Make partner. Keep moving. A lawyer can travel a very long way before anyone asks whether they wanted the destination.
Emily talked about learning how to be a strong lawyer while rarely stopping to ask what she wanted her career to look like or what mattered to her. Megan sees the same reaction in business-development coaching when she asks associates pursuing partnership a basic question: Is that what you want? Many have never been asked.
Managers and mentors should ask earlier and more than once. Do you want partnership? What kind of practice do you want? What do you want your life to hold outside work? What tradeoffs are you willing to make, and which ones are deal breakers? The answer may be an emphatic yes to partnership, leadership, a larger practice, or a highly demanding career. Wellbeing is not code for reducing ambition. It is helping lawyers determine which ambitions are actually theirs before building an entire life around them.
03 Let success look different without pretending the standards disappeared
Improving wellbeing does not require pretending that legal careers are easy or that advancement never interferes with personal plans. Emily put the tension plainly: more senior lawyers may have to accept more nos than they want, while younger lawyers pursuing ambitious goals may have to say yes more often than they want.
That is a much more credible conversation than either extreme. Younger lawyers should be able to take vacations, set boundaries, and decline work when capacity is genuinely gone. They also need to communicate early, build trust, and understand that some opportunities will require inconvenience. Senior lawyers can maintain high standards without insisting that every new generation recreate the exact conditions under which they succeeded.
Focus more on outcomes and less on performance theater. Did the lawyer communicate? Was the client served? Was the work excellent? Did the team have what it needed? If the answer is yes, the fact that the lawyer protected a family commitment, worked differently, or did not want to be available for every non-emergency should not automatically be treated as a lack of commitment.
04 Treat mentoring as part of the job
Emily described mentoring as the most important professional role she has right now. Not an extra. Not something to do after every billable task is finished. Part of the job.
Real mentoring takes time because it involves more than giving generic advice over coffee. It means explaining expectations, sharing context, answering the uncomfortable question, and sometimes telling a lawyer that there are several legitimate ways to build a career. It also means being the person with whom someone can ask, Is it worth it? Do I want this? Those conversations can keep a difficult season from becoming a departure.
Firms should give meaningful credit for mentoring and train people to do it well. Partners should stop treating it as invisible labor that will somehow occur around the edges of a 2,400-hour workload. Mentees also have a role: own the scheduling, arrive prepared, follow through, and eventually take the call when someone more junior reaches out to you.
05 Make room for a whole person instead of a one dimensional professional
When an executive coach asked Emily who she was, her first answer was that she was an attorney. The coach kept pushing: that is your job. Who are you? It is an uncomfortable question in a profession that rewards people for making work the clearest and loudest part of their identity.
Being a whole person at work does not require sharing every private detail. It means lawyers should not have to erase the evidence that they have families, health needs, interests, identities, and responsibilities outside the office. It also means protecting parts of life where worth is not measured in billable hours, originations, rankings, or responsiveness.
Emily plays tennis, loves her dogs, follows college football, and remains deeply ambitious about her career. Those things are not in conflict. Time management can become a form of self-care when lawyers use it to protect what matters instead of merely forcing more work into the day. Business development can support wellbeing when lawyers build relationships in ways that fit their strengths and lives instead of copying someone else's formula. The point is not to care less about the work. It is to stop requiring the work to be everything.
This is not about making the law less serious
Lawyers can work hard, pursue partnership, serve demanding clients, and care deeply about excellence. The profession can also stop confusing secrecy with strength, inherited habits with standards, and constant availability with commitment.
Five changes will not solve every structural problem in the law. But these five are real. They affect whether lawyers can tell the truth, make intentional career choices, develop trusted relationships, protect meaningful parts of their lives, and imagine staying in the profession without disappearing inside it.
That is a far more serious wellbeing strategy than another reminder to take a walk.
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Hear our full conversation with Emily Logan Stedman on So Much To Say: A Legal Podcast For People.
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I Was Harassed (Minis with Megan)
LinkedIn doesn’t have to feel like one giant sales pitch and you actually don’t need to be a jerk to have it work for you.
In this mini episode of So Much To Say: A Legal Podcast for People, Megan Senese shares about a particularly bad LinkedIn interaction and how it has become something of a case study in what not to do. It’s also a reminder that the easiest way to stand out online might simply be to act like a human.
Megan shares how LinkedIn became one of stage’s strongest sources of clients, leads, and referrals by focusing on generosity, curiosity, personality, and genuine relationships instead of immediately asking for business.
If you walk away with anything from this episode, let it be to lead with kindness and to stop the pitch slapping.
Who this episode is for:
Lawyers who want to use LinkedIn but don’t know what to post or say
Professionals worried that reaching out will feel too salesy
Anyone who has ever been on the receiving end of a LinkedIn “pitch slap”
Lawyers and legal marketers looking to turn LinkedIn into a relationship-building and business development tool
Episode takeaways:
LinkedIn can become a meaningful business development pipeline without aggressive selling.
Your content should provide value while also showing people what it’s actually like to know and work with you.
Engagement gives you an opportunity to identify people who are already interested in what you have to say.
A thoughtful conversation is more valuable than rushing into a pitch.
The stronger the relationship, the easier it becomes to understand what someone actually needs, and whether you’re right person to help or not.
How to use LinkedIn without pitch slapping people:
Share something useful: Give people ideas, advice, or perspective they can actually use.
Show some personality: Let people see what it might be like to know and work with you instead of making every post perfectly polished.
Pay attention to who engages: Notice the people who consistently like, comment on, or interact with what you share.
Start with gratitude and curiosity: Thank someone for engaging, start a conversation, and get to know them before asking for anything.
Look for ways to help before you pitch: Send the article, make the introduction, recommend the book, or simply listen to what they need.
Respect the silence: Follow-up is okay. Repeatedly demanding someone's attention is not. No one owes you a response.
Bring these types of conversations to your law firm.
These podcast conversations are the same ones happening quietly inside law firms.
Through stage, we work with lawyers at every level and with legal marketing teams on client service, business development, and growth built on real relationships. If these themes are coming up inside your firm, let’s chat.
Lawyer Dads Need Community (with Dad Esq. Founder, Matthew Korn)
“I created a community, not because I'm the expert, or because I figured it out, but because I think there needs to be a space for us to share about what's working and what's not working.” - Matthew Korn
What happens when the community you need doesn’t exist yet?
Sometimes, you build it yourself.
In this episode of So Much To Say: A Legal Podcast For People, Megan Senese and Jennifer Ramsey chat with Matthew Korn, employment attorney, partner at Pierson Ferdinand, and founder of Dad, Esq., about creating space for lawyer dads, making a major career change after 15 years, and figuring out how to build a career and life that actually work together.
Matthew started Dad, Esq. because he kept hearing the same question: How do you balance being a lawyer and a dad? His answer wasn’t to position himself as the person who had figured it all out, but rather, a father of four with a demanding legal career of his own. He wanted a place where dads could admit that they hadn’t figured it all out, together.
What began as an idea just weeks before its launch has grown into a private community of hundreds of lawyer dads across the U.S. and around the world. They talk about everything from parental leave and trial schedules to sleepless nights, marriage, potty training, career pressure, and the everyday wins that deserve celebrating.
And that shared experience matters. There are things about being a lawyer that other dads may not understand, just as there are parts of fatherhood that don’t always feel easy to bring into the workplace. Dad, Esq. gives men a place for both.
Matthew also gets candid about his own learning along the way, including realizing that building a community for involved dads was sometimes taking him away from being the involved dad he wanted to be. His solution? Delegate, ask for help, and remember that bigger isn’t always better.
Because whether you're building a law practice, a community, or a family life you love, sometimes the goal isn't to keep making everything bigger. It's to recognize what's already working and build intentionally from there.
You’ll hear about:
Why Matthew left a firm after 15 years and what he was looking for in his next chapter
How greater autonomy is changing the way he thinks about work and family
Why he created Dad, Esq. without considering himself an expert on fatherhood
The unique pressures that come with being both a lawyer and a dad
Why talking about fatherhood at work can feel risky for men
Creating a private space where lawyer dads can talk honestly about work, parenting, marriage, and life
How Dad, Esq. grew from an idea conceived just weeks before launch into an international community
Why shared lived experience can make people feel less alone
The conversations lawyer dads are having about parental leave, caregiving, career pressure, and simply being tired
How local Dad, Esq. chapters are bringing an online community into real life
Why delegation became essential as Matthew balanced his family, law practice, and growing community
Matthew’s reminder to himself that everything doesn't always need to become bigger and better
About Matthew Korn:
Matthew Korn is a company-side employment attorney, partner at Pierson Ferdinand, and founder of Dad, Esq., a free online community for lawyer dads. His employment practice spans both proactive counseling and litigation, helping employers navigate everything from reductions-in-force, wage and hour issues, and workplace policies to discrimination, retaliation, and class and collective actions.
As a father of four, Matthew also knows firsthand the tension that can exist between being an ambitious lawyer and a present parent. He created Dad, Esq. in January 2025 to give lawyer dads a private space to connect, share what’s working and what isn’t, and support one another through the realities of law and fatherhood.
Learn More:
Connect with Matthew Korn
Submit your Request to Join Dad, Esq. today at DadEsq.mn.co
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Bring these types of conversations to your law firm.
These podcast conversations are the same ones happening quietly inside law firms.
Through stage, we work with lawyers at every level and with legal marketing teams on client service, business development, and growth built on real relationships. If these themes are coming up inside your firm, let’s chat.
Even My Kids Know: Business Development is About Trust (Minis with Megan)
Getting clients can be hard, but it’s a lot easier when people trust you.
In this mini episode of So Much To Say: A Legal Podcast For People, Megan Senese pulls from inspiration that has come from a seemingly unlikely (but very cute) source: her kids.
Their observation sparks a conversation about why trust, reliability, and small acts of thoughtfulness matter more than the perfect pitch or another accolade. From following up when you say you will to helping someone even when there’s nothing in it for you, Megan explores how small moments add up to strong relationships, and why that is really good business development.
Who this episode is for:
Lawyers who want to build stronger, longer-lasting client relationships
Professionals who struggle with business development feeling transactional
Anyone focused on attracting new clients while overlooking the relationships they already have
Firm leaders looking to create a more relationship-focused approach to business development for themselves and their firm
Episode takeaways:
Trust can matter more than credentials, awards, or a perfectly polished pitch.
Reliability is one of the simplest ways to build trust with clients and prospects.
Small acts of thoughtfulness are business development, even when they don’t feel like it.
Helping when you have nothing to gain demonstrates that a relationship isn’t merely transactional.
Strong relationships make outreach, referrals, pitching, and staying connected easier.
How to make trust part of your business development strategy:
Do what you say you’ll do: Follow through when you promise to call, email, introduce someone, or provide an answer (especially when you offer a timeline).
Show up: Consistency helps people know they can count on you when they need something.
Pay attention to the small things: Remember the book they mentioned, make the introduction, or send the recommendation that made you think of them.
Help when there’s nothing in it for you: Refer work when you’re not the right fit, answer the question, or check in simply because you care.
Take time to reflect: Think about your strongest client relationships and identify the small moments that built trust before there was ever work to discuss.
Bring these types of conversations to your law firm.
These podcast conversations are the same ones happening quietly inside law firms.
Through stage, we work with lawyers at every level and with legal marketing teams on client service, business development, and growth built on real relationships. If these themes are coming up inside your firm, let’s chat.
A Human Approach to Law Firm Business Development (with Andraya Brunau)
“I think it’s starting that conversation that there's not just one right way to learn law and have a practice in law.” - Andraya Brunau
Law firm business development does not have to mean becoming someone you are not.
In this episode of So Much To Say: A Legal Podcast For People, Megan Senese and Jennifer Ramsey sit down with IP litigation partner Andraya Brunau to explore what it looks like to build a legal career, a client base, and a team around genuine relationships.
Andraya shares how returning to law after parental leave helped her become more intentional about the practice she wanted to build. For her, a sustainable career is not only about finding work you enjoy. It is also about finding people you enjoy doing that work with.
That philosophy shapes the way she approaches business development. Rather than copying someone else’s version of rainmaking, Andraya focuses on clients who share her values, invests deeply in existing relationships, and builds trust with people who genuinely feel like part of the same team.
She is bringing that same thinking to the lawyers she leads.
Instead of waiting until senior associates are expected to produce business, Andraya is helping lawyers begin developing those skills earlier. One hour a month. Small opportunities to practice. Different approaches for different personalities. The goal is not to create one kind of rainmaker. It is to help every lawyer find a form of business development that feels natural, accessible, and sustainable.
In this episode, you will hear
Why returning from parental leave can clarify what you want from your legal career
How to identify the clients and relationships worth investing in
Why business development should begin before lawyers reach the senior-associate level
How law firms can make business development more accessible to different personalities
What it means to leave a firm, team, or practice better than you found it
Why there is no single right way to build a meaningful career in law
About Andraya Brunau:
Andraya Brunau is an intellectual property litigator and law firm leader whose practice focuses primarily on trademark and copyright litigation, along with patent counseling and litigation matters. She serves in leadership roles within her firm’s IP litigation and commercial litigation practices and is passionate about mentoring younger attorneys, making business development more accessible, and creating a better experience for the lawyers coming behind her.
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Bring these types of conversations to your law firm.
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Through stage, we work with lawyers at every level and with legal marketing teams on client service, business development, and growth built on real relationships. If these themes are coming up inside your firm, let’s chat.
Stop Looking at Your Competitors (Minis with Megan)
Your perspective is coming from the clients that only you have served, the problems you have solved, the relationships you have built. That’s what makes you different and interesting.
Yet, everywhere you look, you can see something that makes you feel as if you’re not doing it right or not doing enough.
In this mini episode of So Much To Say: A Legal Podcast For People, Megan Senese gives you permission to stop looking at what your competitors are doing, and instead, evaluate what you are doing and why you started doing it in the first place.
This can be particularly difficult in the legal field. Over the years, Megan has decided not to look at stage’s competitors because she wanted to make sure what she and Jen were building was uniquely theirs.
Despite popular belief, it’s actually not helpful to see every decision your competitor is making, every design they are creating, or every event they are hosting. Instead, focus on your business goals and the clients you are already serving.
Who this episode is for:
Lawyers trying to differentiate themselves in a crowded market
Legal marketers developing brands for law firms
Business owners who find themselves constantly comparing their work to competitors
Anyone struggling to figure out what makes their voice, perspective, or approach different
Episode takeaways:
Competitor research can be useful, but it shouldn’t become your strategy.
Constant comparison can unintentionally make your messaging sound like everyone else’s.
Differentiation comes from your own experiences, clients, relationships, and perspective.
Creativity needs space, and sometimes that means intentionally tuning out what everyone else is doing.
AI makes developing a distinct point of view even more important as content and messaging become increasingly similar.
How to stop building your brand around your competitors:
Keep a pulse without obsessing: Be aware of what others are doing in your industry without letting it dictate every decision you make.
Create space for your own ideas: Give yourself room to think before looking at how everyone else has approached the same problem.
Listen to your clients: Your clients are the greatest source of information for what’s going on in the market.
Use competitors to learn, not imitate: Pay attention to what works, and what doesn’t, without imitating.
Trust your perspective: You probably already have something worth saying. You may just need to stop listening to everyone else long enough to hear it.
Bring these types of conversations to your law firm.
These podcast conversations are the same ones happening quietly inside law firms.
Through stage, we work with lawyers at every level and with legal marketing teams on client service, business development, and growth built on real relationships. If these themes are coming up inside your firm, let’s chat.
The Ambition Paradox: Why Working Mothers Are Still Expected to Choose (with Dr. Anne Welsh)
“Yes, your kids matter. Yes, your job matters. But you matter, too.” - Dr. Anne Welsh
What if the answer to working motherhood isn’t about getting better at doing everything?
Maybe it starts with remembering that you’re a person in the mix and you matter, too.
In this episode of So Much To Say: A Legal Podcast For People, Megan Senese and Jennifer Ramsey are joined by Dr. Anne Welsh, clinical psychologist, executive coach, and author of Ambitious Mother: From Surviving to Thriving in Your Career and at Home.
Anne was one of the podcast’s very first guests, and she’s back to talk about the book that grew from sentences scribbled in pickup lines, gymnastics waiting rooms, early mornings, and whatever five-minute pockets she could find to write.
Together, they unpack what Anne calls the “ambition paradox”: the message that being committed to your career somehow takes away from being a good mother, and that being a good mother requires sacrificing parts of yourself for the sake of work or other people.
They talk about the mounting expectations placed on mothers, why work can actually enrich our lives as parents, the perfectionism and people-pleasing so many women internalize, and what workplaces could do differently to support people with full lives outside of work.
Ultimately, Anne offers a reminder that applies whether you're a mother, a parent, or neither: you don't have to sacrifice everything in your life to be successful.
You’ll hear about:
Why working motherhood can feel like an impossible, zero-sum game
How Anne wrote her book five minutes at a time
The perfectionism, people-pleasing, and pretending that affect women far beyond motherhood
Why having something meaningful outside of work can make us more productive and resilient
How expectations of mothers have intensified over the past two decades
Why parental leave is only the beginning of the support working parents need
How law firms can better plan for caregiving without placing the burden on child-free colleagues
The difference between flexibility and true autonomy
Why every season of parenting, your career, or simply life may require a different definition of ambition
What happened when Anne took a chance and asked Robin Arzón to contribute the foreword to her book
About Dr. Anne Welsh:
Dr. Anne Welsh is a clinical psychologist, executive coach, consultant, and author whose work focuses on helping women navigate the intersection of career, ambition, identity, and family. Her book, Ambitious Mother: From Surviving to Thriving in Your Career and at Home, challenges the idea that women must choose between meaningful work and meaningful family lives, and offers practical tools for building a life that makes room for both, without losing yourself in the process.
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Business Development Can’t Happen If You’re Miserable (Minis with Megan)
Business development doesn't happen in a vacuum - it happens inside a culture.
In this mini episode of So Much To Say: A Legal Podcast For People, Megan Senese, shares a deeply personal story about interviewing for a new job just weeks after becoming a first time mother and how this is actually a larger conversation about workplace culture, drive and ambition.
Megan explores why talented people don't stop caring in unhealthy environments - they often care even more. But when people don't feel valued, trusted, or safe to contribute, even the strongest business development strategies begin to break down.
Who this episode is for:
Lawyers working in environments where they don't feel valued
Firm leaders looking to build stronger cultures and stronger business development
Professionals wondering whether their workplace is limiting their growth
Anyone trying to reconcile ambition with well-being
Episode takeaways:
Whether you believe it or not, workplace culture directly impacts business development
Feeling undervalued often causes people to become more guarded NOT less ambitious
Creativity, collaboration, and relationship-building require psychological safety
Sometimes ambition looks like leaving somewhere or something
Sustainable business development begins with environments where people feel seen, trusted, and supported
What to do if your environment is holding you back:
Pay attention to how your workplace makes you feel: Your environment shapes how confidently you show up.
Recognize that culture affects business development: People build relationships more naturally when they feel valued.
Stop mistaking survival for success: Working harder isn't always the answer.
Choose environments where you can contribute fully: Your best work happens where your voice is welcomed.
Remember that leaving isn't giving up: Sometimes it's the first step toward building the career you actually want.
Bring these types of conversations to your law firm.
These podcast conversations are the same ones happening quietly inside law firms.
Through stage, we work with lawyers at every level and with legal marketing teams on client service, business development, and growth built on real relationships. If these themes are coming up inside your firm, let’s chat.