What’s the secret to successful networking? By Jerome Doraisamy|18 January 2021 According to Cassandra Heilbronn, lawyers will have success with networking if they employ a handful of simple, practical approaches. Cassandra Heilbronn – a former president of Women Lawyers Association Queensland and the sports legal manager for a government authority in the Middle East – has always felt comfortable with networking, having being thrown into such social interactions from an early age. “When I was three years old, my parents put me in Tiny Tots, for the Endeavor Foundation, to raise money. You had to wear a pretty dress on stage. As part of that, I had to walk around door to door selling cookies and raffle tickets in my hometown of Bundaberg, QLD. So, from that young age, I had to know how to introduce myself. ‘Would you please buy some tickets? I’m raising money’. That really translated well into my high school years, but then into my legal career without me even knowing,” she reflected.