Sorry, You Do Need to Network (with Miller Leonard)
From Status Check with Spivey by Spivey Consulting Group
January 13, 2026 · 48 min
About this episode
Mike interviews Miller Leonard about networking and securing legal jobs based on his extensive experience in the field.
In this episode of Status Check with Spivey , Mike interviews Miller Leonard, author of How to Get a Job After Law School: The Job Won’t Find You (free online here ), on the lessons he’s learned about networking and getting a legal job in his 25+ years as an attorney. Throughout his career, Miller has been a prosecutor, public defender, legal aid attorney, Special Assistant U.S. Attorney, and Municipal Judge, and he regularly shares legal employment and practice advice for his 40,000+ followers on LinkedIn . Miller discusses concrete steps anyone can take to network with lawyers in their field of choice (8:03), the jarring dynamic shift that happens when high performers go from being students to job-seekers (17:01), networking advice for introverts (19:34), predictions for the future of the legal hiring market and AI (25:16), what law schools are doing right (31:35) and wrong (38:06), overlooked opportunities for new law school grads (42:22), and more. You can listen and subscribe to Status Check with Spivey on Apple Podcasts , Spotify , and YouTube . You can read a full transcript of this episode with timestamps here .
People in this episode
Guest: Miller Leonard
Topics covered
- networking
- legal jobs
- law school
- career advice
- AI in legal hiring
Keywords
- job search
- legal employment
- introverts
- future of hiring
Mentioned in this episode
Products: How to Get a Job After Law School
Books & works: Sorry, You Do Need to Network, Status Check with Spivey
Places: U.S.
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