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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. 

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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.

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Bryson Malcolm

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. 

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.
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