Requested and Answered
So Lengthy and Farewell: Requested and Answered’s host steps down from the podcast
Stephanie Francis Ward joined the ABA Journal as a reporter in 2001 and launched the Requested and Answered podcast in 2011. Picture from Shutterstock.
After 13 years and 170 episodes, Requested and Answered host Stephanie Francis Ward is hanging up her headphones and switching off her mic. Requested and Answered, the ABA Journal’s first and longest-running podcast, is ending its run—not less than for now.
On this episode, Ward discusses her podcast tenure with the Journal’s Lee Rawles. Ward just lately accepted a brand new place on the Journal as an assistant managing editor after an extended reporting profession protecting authorized schooling and common authorized affairs. They chat in regards to the podcast’s humble beginnings with an episode about alternative billing launched April 5, 2010, and the adjustments that Ward has noticed within the authorized neighborhood over that point interval.
A serious shift that Ward identifies is an growing willingness to speak about psychological well being struggles and work-life stability. There has additionally been a sea change in attitudes towards distant work, accelerated by the COVID-19 pandemic. Ward and Rawles—host of The Trendy Legislation Library, one other Journal podcast—talk about the fast pivot that they needed to make when the pandemic shut down the ABA workplaces, and podcasts needed to be recorded at their houses as an alternative of a media room.
They talk about a few of their favourite episodes from the previous 13 years and which matters really feel dated—like “How can attorneys use Google+ to generate business?”—vs. extra timeless points that attorneys face. One evergreen Requested and Answered subject that Ward returned to in a number of episodes was serving to attorneys navigate social anxiousness in enterprise and rainmaking conditions, and Ward shares a few of her favourite suggestions that she’s gleaned from company.
Lastly, Ward thanks the listeners who’ve accompanied her on this journey and urges them to stay in touch with authorized suggestions and pitches. The Journal’s different two podcasts, the Legal Rebels Podcast and the Modern Law Library, will proceed to be launched on their regular schedules.
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Stephanie Francis Ward
Stephanie Francis Ward, an assistant managing editor, joined the ABA Journal employees in 2001 as a authorized affairs author. She was additionally beforehand a senior author. Ward had labored as a reporter for the Chicago Each day Legislation Bulletin and California Legislation Enterprise, a publication of the Los Angeles and San Francisco Each day Journals. She earned her BA in journalism from California State College at Lengthy Seashore.
