Legal Grounds | Conversations on Life, Leadership & Law
After over three decades in the legal-trenches, Mike Bassett has learned to appreciate two things: good conversation & good coffee.
Legal Grounds is an ongoing series of interviews with the people who are shaping our world - legal or otherwise. Witty, irreverent, & always thoughtful, these brief discussions fall somewhere between “Night Court” & Hopper’s “Nighthawks At The Diner”.
With that in mind, we promise your coffee will still be warm when the podcast is done.
(Legal Grounds was written, recorded, and produced by Dust Devil Press)
Legal Grounds | Conversations on Life, Leadership & Law
Legal Grounds | Dave Obrand on Consistency, the Power of Mentorship, and the Joys of Public Service
My guest this week is Dave Obrand, a fellow attorney and Deputy County Counsel out of Orange County.
What attracted me to Dave was not simply the work he does helping to reunite families, but the story of his OWN family and the power to grow through grief.
While not giving away the entire episode, after graduating from law school, Dave’s life took a very sudden and very unexpected turn when his father fell ill.
The conversation this week was free-wheeling, but in the end I found it to be a meditation on the power of mentorship, both the intentional and the unknown.
We also discuss the reasons Dave was drawn to public service, what advice he’d give to young lawyers, and why the best leaders never say, “do this FOR me,” but instead ask, “how do WE do this?”
Enjoy the show.
SHOWNOTES:
Dave Obrand for California State Assembly