This week Adrian welcome’s Jon Gregson, employment lawyer and Partner at Weightmans, into the TTML studio to discuss his journey from day 1 to day 5,719 of making Partner. If you are part of the lawyer community on LinkedIn, you will almost certainly have seen Jon’s witty and insightful content appearing on your feed, from quips about his ginger hair to life as a Partner in a top UK law firm, Jon’s voice has pierced through and grabbed the attention of a growing audience.

In this episode, we also discuss:

·         How Weightmans has provided Jon with the opportunities to stay at the firm, establish his position through hard work and progress both his career and the culture of the company;

·         Employment law as a practice that you can find yourself in rather accidentally depending on the seat you have during your training contract;

·         Working with the product and innovation team and the importance of having the right people in the room at the right time on solving client problems in different ways, particularly using new technologies;

·         Visualizing data to help lawyers solve problems pragmatically with clients;

·         Finding your voice on LinkedIn and the benefits on Jon’s work as a lawyer – If you need something from Jon you already know what you are going to get as you have an insight into who he is as a person from his LinkedIn presence.

And stay tuned till the end to hear about a case Jon worked on that ended up in a Netflix Documentary!