Graduating from an LLB (or any other degree for that matter) doesn't come with a manual on how to reach the heights of professional success. Instead we often look to those around us in the hope their experiences and failings will help us negotiate some of the most pivotal moments in our careers.
Welcome to Friends in Law. A podcast about lawyers, for lawyers. Join Alex Correa and her friends in law as they share their very candid and personal stories about why they do what they do and how they've found their own way to thrive, in and outside of lawyering.
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You're a Good Lawyer, That Doesn't Mean You're a Good Leader
She reached the exact job most lawyers are still chasing, Head of Legal for Asia Pacific at a global software company, and walked away from it in under two years. Mel started as a graduate lawyer at Corrs Chambers Westgarth with no clerkship and an average transcript, then moved in-house through Brisbane Airport Corporation and over a decade scaling two fast-growing tech companies, before leaving corporate law altogether to build Counsel Media and The Counsel Podcast full time. The throughline is that leadership in law is a separate skill from being a good lawyer, that AI is already killing the billable hour, and that the gatekeeping built into the traditional path is exactly what she's spent the back half of her career trying to dismantle. She also gives Friends In Law listeners an exclusive first look at CouncilCon, the new industry conference she's launching in Brisbane in March, including priority access to tickets before they go public.
26 Aug 2026
"You Don't Have to Explain Your Business to Me" — Martin Richardson, Legal Director, Risk Collective
Martin Richardson spent over a decade in-house: Legal Counsel at BlueScope Steel, then General Counsel roles at AWB, Adecco and Sodexo, before walking away to build a legal practice from scratch around a single industry: recruitment.
In this episode, Martin unpacks why he bet an entire brand on one niche, the KPI he was handed at BlueScope that had nothing to do with billable hours, and the moment he got physically confronted at a set of sale yards over a misunderstood client visit. We talk about what credibility and authority actually look like when you strip away the letterhead, and why understanding a business beats explaining the law to it every time.
29 Jul 2026
Season 4 | Episode 4 – "Unencumbered by Expertise" — Nadia Bromley, CEO, Women's Legal Service Queensland
What happens when your career refuses to follow a straight line? Nadia Bromley never met a lawyer before enrolling in law school, and her path since has taken her from a decade in criminal law at Legal Aid, into HR, into leading a 300-person IT team with no technical background, into general counsel, and eventually to CEO of Women's Legal Service Queensland, an organisation she's grown from $6 million to $14 million in four years.
In this episode, Nadia talks candidly about missing out on a CEO role she desperately wanted, what she learned from that knockback, and the moment she told a hiring panel exactly how much a job meant to her. She also shares the skills she believes every lawyer already has and doesn't realise, and why the hardest part of leadership is deciding what not to do.
For lawyers wondering whether their own path needs to look conventional to count, this one's for you.
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