Looking at the Big Picture with Carrie Leahy

Denise Ilitch show

Have you wondered what it takes to be on the partnership track at a law firm? What kind of preparation and leadership it takes to achieve top success in private practice? Denise talks to Carrie Leahy, attorney and chair of Bodman PLC. Carrie provides tangible and useful advice about working your way up in a large firm and career development. She talks about balancing interests, being creative with solutions, and learning to listen and actually hear colleagues and clients. This episode will be very helpful to those aspiring to the legal field as well as those interested in general business career advice.

Carrie Leahy is chair of the executive management committee of Bodman PLC, a business law firm headquartered in Detroit. She concentrates her practice in corporate and business law. She counsels both established and emerging businesses on general corporate transactions, mergers and acquisitions, compliance with securities regulations, and issues involving venture capital funding. Carrie was recently named one of Crain’s Detroit Business 100 Most Influential Women and DBusiness “Detroit 500” Most Powerful Business Leaders.

Denise Ilitch, an owner of Ilitch Family Companies and President of Ilitch Enterprises, has been a part of Detroit’s business and philanthropic community for over 40 years. As a mother, lawyer, entrepreneur, devoted community servant and tireless advocate for women and children, she learned early, from her father, that everyone is worthy of contributing to the world. Her passion for affordable, accessible, quality education stems from her own experience as a first-generation student, earning a bachelor’s degree from the University of Michigan, where she currently serves on the Board of Regents, and a law degree from the University of Detroit Law School. FOLLOW DENISE @thedeniseilitchshow