025: Kalpana Srinivasan on hip-hop dancing, making career gut decisions, and business development strategy
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Kalpana is known as one of the top trial lawyers in the country. She’s also co-chair of one of the leading trial firms in the country, Susman Godfrey. That’s a rare combination. I took this opportunity to explore themes in Kalpana’s career and professional decisions, there’s a ton of great principles covered in this conversation. In this episode, we talk hip-hop dancing, the role of gut decisions in career, how she approaches business development, and more.
- (00:00) - why Kalpana practices hip hop dancing
- (10:27) - the role gut decisions have played in her career
- (15:27) - how to benefit from gut decisions
- (18:57) - how should lawyers think about joining a growing office
- (26:47) - what Kalpana is willing to sacrifice for success
- (31:27) - how Kalpana allocates her time and effort to new cases
- (36:17) - how the firm gets new ideas
- (45:07) - a firm Kalpana admires
- (51:57) - how a trial practice helps with running a firm and vice versa
- (01:00:47) - how Kalpana balances the history of the firm and its future
- (01:04:47) - the most impactful tip she picked up in her training
- (01:12:07) - how Kalpana litigates differently from Steve Susman
- (01:13:47) - Kalpana’s favorite phase of litigation
- (01:22:27) - my take on Kalpana’s superpower
- (01:26:17) - how Kalpana approaches business development
- (01:36:37) - “show, don’t tell”
- (01:40:27) - what Kalpana is most excited about in her career
- (01:45:37) - why she believes in doing both plaintiff and defense work
- (01:50:47) - Kalpana’s advice for lawyers
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