Lawyerist Podcast
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The Lawyerist Podcast is your ultimate guide to building, managing, and growing a successful small or medium-sized law firm. Tailored for lawyers and attorneys who aspire to thrive in today’s fast-paced legal landscape, this podcast delivers actionable advice, proven strategies, and cutting-edge insights to help you run a modern law firm with confidence.Whether you're a solo attorney starting your practice, managing a growing firm, or looking to optimize your operations, The Lawyerist Podcast provides the tools you need. From mastering law firm marketing, streamlining workflows with legal technology, and improving client relationships to building sustainable firm culture, we cover everything that matters to entrepreneurial lawyers.Hosted by industry leaders and packed with interviews featuring top legal professionals, tech innovators, and law firm management experts, each episode dives deep into topics like law firm profitability, automation, time management, and future trends in legal services.If you’re searching for practical advice on how to run a law firm, grow your legal business, and stay ahead of the curve, The Lawyerist Podcast is the resource you’ve been waiting for. Subscribe now to elevate your practice and build the law firm of your dreams.
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Jun 20, 2018 • 38min
#177: Billing Flat Fees for Unpredictable Cases, with Gabriel Cheong
In this episode of The Lawyerist Podcast, Gabriel Cheong talks about billing flat fees in unpredictable cases, like contested divorces. Often seeming impossible to implement in a family law firm, Gabriel shares a few tips on how he makes this client service model function in his firm.
Jun 13, 2018 • 51min
#176: How to Rehearse for Your Next Oral Argument, with Michael Port
In this episode of The Lawyerist Podcast, Michael Port shares seven steps for mapping out your next oral argument. We talk about how to plan your content, when to make meaningful transitions, and how to make the most out of rewriting and rehearsing. Michael Port is a bestselling author of six books, including Book Yourself Solid and Steal the Show, and co-founder of Heroic Public Speaking.
Jun 6, 2018 • 42min
#175: Getting Organized at Home and Work, with Merlin Mann
In this week’s episode with Merlin Mann, we talk about what it means to actually get organized. We discuss the relationship—and conflict—between personal productivity and organizational productivity and how they relate to work-life balance.
May 30, 2018 • 46min
#174: How Lawyers Can Get More from Their iPhones, with David Sparks
David Sparks shares ten ways lawyers can get more from their iPhones in this episode of The Lawyerist Podcast. From security hacks to email and notification optimization, David reveals myriad hidden iPhone features every lawyer can use.
May 23, 2018 • 41min
#173: Using Trello in a Law Practice, Jordan Couch
In this episode with Jordan Couch, we talk about how he uses Trello in his law firm. Jordan walks us through what his workflow used to look like without Trello, what it looks like now, and how he balances his workflow using Trello and a host of other tools, like Clio.
May 16, 2018 • 40min
#172: Law Firm Profile: MyVirtual.Lawyer, with Brooke Moore
In this episode, Brooke Moore gives us a snapshot of her client-centric, virtual law firm. Brooke discusses how she uses automation, the approach she uses to make improvements, and how she measures success with her business model. We also mention a previous podcast episode with Josie Beets, which you listen to here.
May 9, 2018 • 43min
#171: A Law Firm Website Audit Checklist, with Karin Conroy
In this episode with Karin Conroy, we talk about the key factors in making your website both functional and effective. From SEO, design, and content tips—this podcast covers everything you need to conduct your very own website audit. We also talk about various website and SEO tools, including Moz.com for SEO tracking, gtmetrix.com to monitor and improve your website's page speed, a WordPress Security Plugin called iThemes Security, a responsiveness checker called the Mobile-Friendly Test by Google, webaim.org to check your website's accessibilty, a Hubspot resource page to learn more about Inbound Marketing, Lawyerist's Best Websites page to check out the law firm websites we think are doing it right, and lastly—our Website Design Guide to help kickstart your audit.
May 2, 2018 • 45min
#170: What's Stopping Lawyers From Addressing Challenges, with Natalie Kelly
In this episode with Natalie Kelly, we discuss some of the roadblocks that are stopping lawyers from addressing challenges in their firms. We also talk about some of the technology solutions that exist, and why some lawyers are hesitant to use those technologies.
Apr 25, 2018 • 59min
#169: A Recipe for Affordable Legal Services, with Patrick Palace
In this episode, we're joined by Patrick Palace to talk about how we—as a profession—can help make legal services affordable to all consumers.
Apr 18, 2018 • 23min
#168: A New Direction for Lawyerist, with Stephanie Everett
In this episode with Stephanie Everett, our Community Director, we talk about the big picture of what we [Lawyerist] are trying to do, how the various pieces like the Scorecard, Insider, and Lab fit in, and what the one-year road map looks like for Lab members.
