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 28, 2016 • 38min
#74: Staying out of Hot Water with the Ethics Board, with Eric Cooperstein
In this podcast, Sam chats with Eric Cooperstein, an ethics attorney. They talk about how to approach law practice in a way that avoids ethics trouble.
Jun 21, 2016 • 37min
#73: How to Leave a Small Firm in a Small Town, With Paul Floyd
This week, Sam chats with Paul Floyd, a lawyer who advises solosmall attorneys about business issues, about how an attorney can leave a small firm in a small town and do so on good terms. Aaron and Sam also discussed how everyday things like keycards and paper checks can be far less secure than you think they are.
Jun 14, 2016 • 47min
#72: How to Spot Fly-by-Night Legal Tech, with Joshua Lenon
On this week's podcast, Sam talks with Joshua Lenon, lawyer in residence at Clio, about how to assess legal technology through four lenses: price, user base, the interactivity of the company with the legal field, and responsiveness. Sam also talks about how to properly contextualize news about software security problems when that news is often poorly reported.
Jun 7, 2016 • 33min
#71: TBD Law, with Matt Homann
On this week’s podcast, Sam talks with Matt Homann, founder of Filament. Filament and Lawyerist are collaborating on TBD Law, a conference/retreat/summit/workshop about the future of law for solosmall firms.
Jun 1, 2016 • 36min
#70: Using Public Court Data to Predict Court Outcomes, with Sam Harden
Sam chats with Sam Harden about his solosmall firm and how to balance having a newborn at home with a burgeoning law practice. Sam Harden also explains how he taught himself to code and leveraged Florida's extensive public records law in order to develop My Court Case.
May 25, 2016 • 28min
#69: The Big Case, with Making a Murderer's Dean Strang
On this podcast, Sam talks with Dean Strang, the attorney who represented Steven Avery in the case that formed the basis for Netflix's Making a Murderer documentary. They discuss how Strang came to represent Avery and how an attorney makes a decision to take a case that will be all-consuming.
May 17, 2016 • 40min
#68: What's Happening at the Harvard Library Innovation Lab, with Adam Ziegler
Sam and Adam Ziegler talk about the future of law and the challenges it faces through the lens of the Harvard Library Innovation Lab. They also explore the beginnings of Perma.cc—a tool that saves links from rotting—and other products that have also come out of the Harvard Library Innovation Lab.
May 10, 2016 • 26min
#67: How and Why You Need to Ditch Your Smartphone, with Jared Correia
Sam and Jared Corella discuss the impact of smartphones on our daily lives and why it may be best for you to give it up in favor of being in the moment. (And don't worry, you can give up your smartphone without being considered a luddite.)
May 3, 2016 • 34min
#66: What It Means to Have a "Human" Practice, with Julie Tolek
Sam and Julie Tolek chat about what it means to be a solo
lawyerand how to create a brand experience that doesn't
intimidateclients. Julie also tells us about how she manages her
client tasksand what it takes to maintain a work-life balance in
the legalfield.
Apr 26, 2016 • 42min
#65: What You Need to Know About the Cloud Services You Use, with David Tollen
As more law firms go paperless, using cloud services for
billing, timekeeping, and client files is common. But not all cloud
services, especially those that offer free packages, will promise
to keep your client data secure. Many of these services even
reserve the right to use the data you store with them in marketing
materials. David tells us what we should do about this and what we
should look out for when subscribing to a new cloud service.
Links:
http://www.forbes.com/sites/schoolboard/2016/03/17/which-top-law-school-will-close-follow-the-money/#7d3edcbf3457
