20 Questions with Annika

(upbeat music) - Welcome to Bar Review, a space where we talk honestly about life and the legal profession. I'm Carrie, and I'm Anika. Welcome to the conversation. Just a quick note before we get started. We are not your lawyers, and this is not legal advice. - And to the extent either of us are employed by the time this airs, this is where we share our personal opinions and not the opinions of anyone else, especially those kind enough to employ us. - And one more time for the people in the back. - We are not your lawyers. - This is not legal advice. - Thank you for listening. - Hi, hi, we are on a lunch break. You brought over Sushi. - Thank you for doing that. - The bus Sushi in Tad Tomini, Apple. - True, totally true. If you lose another podcast, you can get a secrets like this. You get secrets about where the best lunchtime sushi in the downtown Minneapolis sky was, and that's also obviously Chikatsu, and it's so good it's not a secret. But you had no idea I was going to be springing recording on you because season two of Bar Review will be coming out on March 22nd. - Hopefully. - Always the optimist. - Okay, here's the name of the game. You must answer rapid fire. You don't get to think. I will cut you off if you keep going. We are playing 20 questions with Anika. Question one, first word that comes to mind when I say the word lock. Chaos? Question two, if lock were a reality TV show, what would it be called? Real Housewives. - One Latin legal phrase you would delete forever. - Quick, my saver won a Swiss fontay. I don't know which died, I'd delete. - Okay, most overrated lawyer trait. I think it's, I think that the tone of zealousness, which is people say zealous to hide behind and asshole is overrated. - Okay. - So the most overrated lawyer trait you would say is being an asshole. - Yeah, best advice you ever ignored. Best advice I ever ignored. So feel lawyer. Nice. One thing lawyers pretend don't bother them, but it definitely does. - But a document isn't justified. I leave my mind. I can't read it. - One thing lawyers pretend does not bother them, but it really does is justification and formatting of documents. Love it. - Hardest boundary you ever had to learn. - How did not work? - 24/7. - One thing clients should stop apologizing for. - But not understanding things. The legal system is bizarre and weird and I had to get a higher education to how to state it. - One thing lawyers should start apologizing for. - Saving things to the last minute. - The legal norm that makes the least sense. - Why are grave black my only wardrobe options? - Like grave black and maybe. - What is your I should log off tell the work literally start blurring? - A rule you follow that no one taught you. - I print literally everything when it comes to an argument or a deposition or anything in court. And I don't think anyone taught me that. I don't think I was not taught that. You know what I mean? - Yeah. - Hard copy files for court hearings. - Yeah. - Monica Kills trees. - One thing you are still unlearning. - Oh, that someone else at urgency is my emergency. I think I'm unlearning that. - Most annoying thing that I do when we are recording. You go on 1800 tangents. We never finish an actual thought. - I mean, that's just a conversation. - True. - This is universally applicable to talking with you. - Correct. One belief about law, you have changed your mind. - That you can't be an elite lawyer and have a life outside of it. That is equally perfectly. - One thing you never leave the house without. - My portable phone charger. - What burns you out the fastest? - Not having control over my own life. Like for example, when somebody tells you to show up at their office for lunch and then springs recording on you. - No, actually this is fine because it's within bound. It's when you have a filing on a Friday afternoon and you do everything you possibly can to make sure that it's all tied up in a pretty bow Friday and nine in the morning. And then something outside of your control completely derails that pretty plan and ruins your Friday. - What brings you back? - This is what I'm getting to help people make some sort of the good in the world. - What is your favorite part about being a minnesota? - Ridney, really. - All right, and the 20th question, finish this sentence. Season two of BarReview is about the sisterhood, we're gonna figure it out. And that is why you should listen to BarReview season two to learn more about Onika and to hear me annoy her more coming out on March 22nd. See you soon. - Thanks for joining the conversation. You can find BarReview wherever you get your podcasts. Please subscribe and share. Wanna keep the conversation going? Follow us on social at BarReview LLC. Onika will see you there and she'll tell me all about it. Got a question you want us to talk on a future episode? Send it our way. We try to read every email. And just a reminder, we are not your lawyer. This is not legal advice and these opinions are just our own. Cheers. (upbeat music)