Fringe Legal

In this penultimate episode of season one, I speak with the fantastic Thao Tran. Thao is the Knowledge Manager at the international firm Fried Frank. She's based in New York, and is also the Member Liaison for ILTA in NYC.Thao has a unusual route into knowledge management, and in exploring how she got there, we learn ways that can help break into a new role, crowdsource ideas and separate the signal from the noise.At the end of the episode, I was left with a few pages of notes (and Thao even suggested a job for me after I retire :p)!.SUBSCRIBE AND REVIEW:  iTunes // Spotify // Pocket Casts // Stitcher Some of the highlights include: (numbers are time codes)Thao's journey into knowledge management driven by work-life balance, and a nudge from a partner → 2.50Thinking through the expansion of the KM function from just one practice area to various → 5.00Importance of mentorship and sponsorship (and the differences between the two at a law firm) → 6.00Why casting a "wider net" when searching for mentors is so imp