Marty Finestone's guest appearances

Marty Finestone

The Sovereign Professional's Podcast

Notes To My (Legal) Self

The Human Lawyer

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A lot of the time we talk about how to manage our mental health outside the work place. What do we need to do to take care of ourselves after hours? That is the question we like to usually ask, but today I want to assert that part of self care is having the kind of environment, including systems and processes, that allow you to enjoy your work. Marty Finestone is a lawyer and a legal design expert who uses both his lawyer thinking and creativity (though, they are not mutually exclusive), in order to support teams and individuals joyfully reach their productivity at work. His compelling reason for getting into this niche field and how he capitalizes on his experiences to support others offers another perspective on how we can design not just our work lives but our whole lives as well.  Connect with Marty on LinkedIn here: https://ca.linkedin.com/in/martyfinestone Follow Marty on Instagram here: https://www.instagram.com/himartyf/ Follow Marty on Twitter here: https://twitter.com/himartyf Learn more about Marty’s Counsel Collective initiative here: https://counselcollective.co/ Sign up for Marty’s newsletter here: https://legaladjacency.com/with-less/ Connect with Angela on LinkedIn here: https://www.linkedin.com/in/itsangelahan/ Visit Angela’s website here: https://angela-han.com/ Follow Angela on Instagram here: https://www.instagram.com/itsangelahan/

A lot of the time we talk about how to manage our mental health outside the work place. What do we need to do to take care of ourselves after hours? That is the question we like to usually ask, but today I want to assert that part of self care is having the kind of environment, including systems and processes, that allow you to enjoy your work. Marty Finestone is a lawyer and a legal design expert who uses both his lawyer thinking and creativity (though, they are not mutually exclusive), in order to support teams and individuals joyfully reach their productivity at work. His compelling reason for getting into this niche field and how he capitalizes on his experiences to support others offers another perspective on how we can design not just our work lives but our whole lives as well.  Connect with Marty on LinkedIn here: <a href="https://ca.linkedin.com/in/martyfinestone" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://ca.linkedin.com/in/martyfinestone</a> Follow Marty on Instagram here: <a href="https://www.instagram.com/himartyf/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.instagram.com/himartyf/</a> Follow Marty on Twitter here: <a href="https://twitter.com/himartyf" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://twitter.com/himartyf</a> Learn more about Marty’s Counsel Collective initiative here: <a href="https://counselcollective.co/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://counselcollective.co/</a> Sign up for Marty’s newsletter here: <a href="https://legaladjacency.com/with-less/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://legaladjacency.com/with-less/</a> Connect with Angela on LinkedIn here: <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/itsangelahan/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.linkedin.com/in/itsangelahan/</a> Visit Angela’s website here: <a href="https://angela-han.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://angela-han.com/</a> Follow Angela on Instagram here: <a href="https://www.instagram.com/itsangelahan/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.instagram.com/itsangelahan/</a>

Legal design and mental health with Marty Finestone

Marty Finestone is an artist, DJ, lawyer, and legal designer. Marty has over 15 years of experience in private practice, in-house, and government. Today, he helps in-house legal and business teams simplify their legal docs and legal ops at Legal Adjacency, a boutique legal consultancy founded by Marty in 2020. Legal Adjacency challenges legal and business teams to thrive through better outcomes. Marty uses a blend of legal expertise and law adjacent methods and tools to simplify and solve the challenges that matter most to his clients. Your value as in-house counsel is not in being a good lawyer, but in being a great advisor. The organization doesn’t have legal problems, it has business problems. Typically, the business problems of an organization have legal aspects, but they are not discreetly legal. Business problems often require creativity. Working in a role like legal, where there are many constraints and an established “way it’s done,” can feel like there’s limited opportunity to infuse more creativity or innovation, into your work. If we zoom out and change our perspective, we can see that the law may tell you to do one thing, but it doesn’t dictate how you do it. This mindset opens the door to finding creative ways to advise and provide legal solutions to the organization’s problems. This is where legal design comes into play. Legal design is a mindset, an approach, that starts with the user - the internal client - their needs, interests, communication style, constraints, and more.

Marty Finestone is an artist, DJ, lawyer, and legal designer. Marty has over 15 years of experience in private practice, in-house, and government. Today, he helps in-house legal and business teams simplify their legal docs and legal ops at Legal Adjacency, a boutique legal consultancy founded by Marty in 2020. Legal Adjacency challenges legal and business teams to thrive through better outcomes. Marty uses a blend of legal expertise and law adjacent methods and tools to simplify and solve the challenges that matter most to his clients. Your value as in-house counsel is not in being a good lawyer, but in being a great advisor. The organization doesn’t have legal problems, it has business problems. Typically, the business problems of an organization have legal aspects, but they are not discreetly legal. Business problems often require creativity. Working in a role like legal, where there are many constraints and an established “way it’s done,” can feel like there’s limited opportunity to infuse more creativity or innovation, into your work. If we zoom out and change our perspective, we can see that the law may tell you to do one thing, but it doesn’t dictate how you do it. This mindset opens the door to finding creative ways to advise and provide legal solutions to the organization’s problems. This is where legal design comes into play. Legal design is a mindset, an approach, that starts with the user - the internal client - their needs, interests, communication style, constraints, and more.