A Criminal Defence Lawyer Paid Me to Stop Saying the Word “Like”

Sounding smart and being smart are different — and both are important.

Negin Safdari
Fearless She Wrote
Published in
6 min readMar 18, 2020

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Photo by Brett Jordan on Unsplash

My roommate lucked out on placing an internship with one of Canada’s top criminal defence lawyers (let’s call him John). After her first day, he sent her home with a challenge: if she, alongside her 3 roommates, could last an entire…

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Negin Safdari
Fearless She Wrote

Executive Recruiter @ Artemis Canada. Passionate about communication, funny tweets, and finding great leaders to change the world.