IngaTalk: Recent Episodes
Inga Andriessen
Straight talk about law & legal issues from Toronto area business lawyer & legal educator, Inga Andriessen
Inga talks about running a firm successfully from home, focusing on people, equipment and software solutions.
In this podcast, recorded March 29, 2020, Inga provides advice to lawyers (and others) on how to financially survive the Covid-19 Pandemic. Having started her firm in a recession & weathered through Sars, she has experience she is happy to share with everyone.
Recorded on International Women’s Day 2020, Inga talks about how it never occurred to her she wasn’t equal to lawyers who didn’t happen to be a woman and the impact this has had on her career (spoiler alert: she was treated equally).
Inga picks up from Episode 4 and talks about many of the issues you need to consider when you start a law firm …. this includes a moderate rant questioning what the Law Society of Ontario won’t allow lawyers to have non-licensees as shareholders. Rants make the episodes more fun, don’t you think?
Inga talks about a variety of ways to own a law firm, discussing the pros and cons of each along the way. As always, she has her Inga spin on things and shares how she started her firm “back in the day”
In this first semi-rant of the season Inga talks about why a law firm is a business and her take on contingency fee practices.
Inga talks about the difference between Canadian and overseas degrees as well as the factors you should think about when picking a law school.