Protégé: 'What next and what else?': Why grades do not start and end a legal career

Lawyers Weekly Podcast Network · Feb 28, 2022 · 27m

One of our 2021 Women in Law Awards finalists shares with Protégé why students do not need to fit into the "perfect" package of what a lawyer should look like – complete with high grades and clerkships – in order to have a successful career.

In this episode of The Protégé Podcast, host Naomi Neilson is joined by DLA Piper paralegal and one of our finalists from the 2021 Women in Law Awards Sarah McKenzie to talk about how less-than-perfect grades did not put an end to what is fast becoming a successful legal career in the commercial space.

In the episode, Sarah shares: "I never thought I was…