Look Who’s Talking – It Ain’t a Biglaw Associate!

This article, Young Lawyer Builds Her Practice One New Gig at a Time (NYLJ – 12/22/04) reports on the budding TV commentator career of new solo Harjot “Ginny” Walia of San Francisco firm Puri and Walia.   A chance meeting with a Fox News Channel Producer at the local courthouse lead to about a dozen appearances by Walia thereafter.  Would an associate two years out of school get that kind of exposure at a large firm?  (By the way, MyShingle’s own Mark Sindler, a Pittsburgh solo has also appeared as a commentator on Court TV and Fox News)