Summary:
This episode explores the intersection of fiction writing and the practice of law. Victor
Suthammanont, a writer and attorney, discusses his first novel, Hollow Spaces, published earlier this year. Hollow Spaces explores race and racism, the legal system and the search for truth, and, perhaps more than anything else, family – the enduring impressions, connections, and relations between husband and wife, parents and children, and brother and sister. In his conversation with Associate Dean Rodger Citron, Suthammanont describes his journey from student actor to experienced attorney and published author. Even now, Suthammanont continues to draw on skills he developed as an actor in his legal practice. Suthammanont then discusses various aspects of the novel, including the characters’ efforts to learn the truth about the underlying events that shape the stories told in the novel. Whether you are an attorney or a law student, a writer or a theater kid considering a career in law, you will enjoy listening to this episode.
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Learn More About Victor Suthammanont:
Victor Suthammanont is a writer who practices law in New York City. He attended New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts, where he studied at the Atlantic Theater Company Acting School. After graduating from NYU, Suthammanont founded a theater company and performed in theater for a number of years. Suthammanont then attended New York Law School, where he eventually served as an Articles Editor on the Law Review and graduated with a number of awards. After law school, Suthammanont clerked for the Hon. Maryanne Trump Barry on the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, worked at a Wall Street law firm, and served for ten years on the staff of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission in the Division of Enforcement. During Suthammanont’s his time at the SEC, his positions included Senior Trial Counsel and Enforcement Counsel for Chair Gary Gensler. Suthammanont left the SEC in January 2025 and is now a partner at Kostelanetz LLP.
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