LinkedIn Brought Me £100k+ In Complex Legal Work with Sahar Farooqi

About this episode

Sahar Farooqi discusses his career pivots and the impact of LinkedIn on his journey in the legal profession.

Most lawyers talk about career progression as if it’s a straight line. But the reality looks a lot more like a series of pivots, risks, and moments you can’t predict. And sometimes the bravest move… is stepping away from the thing that once defined you. This episode is about those moments — and what happens when you follow them. Today I sit down with Sahar Farooqi (CEO and founder of Legalencia), a well-known face on LinkedIn who spent 15 years as a barrister before moving into legal transformation at Harneys… and eventually launching his own consultancy (Legalencia). He’s one of the few lawyers who has lived every corner of the profession: crime, civil, commercial, in-house, partner, and now founder. Sahar shares the story behind the boldest decisions of his life including leaving the bar after 15 years to step into a world most lawyers still tiptoe around: transformation. But this isn’t a conversation about innovation. It’s a conversation about reinvention. We dig into why junior lawyers are entering the most high-stakes decade the profession has ever seen, how LinkedIn unexpectedly flipped the direction of his career, and the new rules of success in a legal world where talent…

People in this episode

Host: Holly Cope

Guest: Sahar Farooqi

Topics covered

• career progression
• legal transformation
• reinvention
• LinkedIn
• law profession
• success in law

Keywords

• legal work
• career pivots
• transformation
• innovation
• lawyers
• success
• LinkedIn

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Legalencia, Harneys

Places: LinkedIn

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