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MM 008 - Lessons in Life & Business From a High Profile Lawyer, with Brandon Williams
- Author: Vários
- Narrator: Vários
- Publisher: Podcast
- Duration: 0:54:13
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Synopsis
Brandon Williams is a successful attorney, but he's never forgotten his humble beginnings or his identity. Even to this day, as a partner at an international law firm, when any of his associates get into his ride to accompany him to a client meeting, he turns up Future (or whatever hip hop artist on the radio) and continues on as if he was driving alone. He is perfectly comfortable in his own skin, even though as a black male attorney, he makes up less than 4% of the entire profession (and even lower than that if you count African-Americans who are partners in major law firms). Growing up in Decatur, Georgia and while in high school, Brandon was a smart kid that could also fit into the "cool crowd." But he credits his time at Morehouse College for helping to shape him into the man he is today and instilling the confidence in him that it was "cool" to be smart too and to excel academically. Brandon would need that confidence when he started his first day of law school at Emory Law. This was the first t