The Agile Attorney Podcast
John E. Grant
The Agile Attorney podcast teaches legal professionals how to streamline their legal workflows using the principles, practices, and tools of the Kanban Method.
Join Accredited Kanban Trainer and award-winning legal operations professional John E. Grant as he shares the keys to implementing effective strategies, practices, and technologies to drive true efficiency in your legal processes.
For more information on how John can help you develop an agile mindset and bust through your legal delivery bottlenecks, visit https://agileattorney.com.
This is the show for you if you find yourself asking questions like:
-How can I make my law practice more efficient?
-What is the best way to implement legal project management in my legal workflow?
-How can I best leverage technology to improve my legal workflows?
-What is the best way to transition my practice to flat fees or other alternative billing structures?
-How can I get my legal team to perform better?
-How can I better build productized legal services?
-What is the best way to increase law firm revenue without adding headcount?
Join Accredited Kanban Trainer and award-winning legal operations professional John E. Grant as he shares the keys to implementing effective strategies, practices, and technologies to drive true efficiency in your legal processes.
For more information on how John can help you develop an agile mindset and bust through your legal delivery bottlenecks, visit https://agileattorney.com.
This is the show for you if you find yourself asking questions like:
-How can I make my law practice more efficient?
-What is the best way to implement legal project management in my legal workflow?
-How can I best leverage technology to improve my legal workflows?
-What is the best way to transition my practice to flat fees or other alternative billing structures?
-How can I get my legal team to perform better?
-How can I better build productized legal services?
-What is the best way to increase law firm revenue without adding headcount?
Episodes
Mentioned books
Jan 20, 2026 • 35min
103. Bottlenecks in Law Firms: Fixing Flow Without Heroics [Agile Lawyering Part 3]
Discover how visibility in workflow can transform bottlenecks into smoother legal processes. Learn the importance of distinguishing between unfinished work and actual waiting time. Explore how to pinpoint the most critical bottlenecks, such as client homework and quality reviews. Embrace a team-oriented approach to process improvement, moving away from personal heroics. Delve into three essential levers for relieving bottlenecks: focusing on finishing tasks, empowering others, and enhancing upstream quality. Optimize your legal practice for better flow!
Jan 13, 2026 • 25min
102. Build a Promise-Keeping Machine for Your Law Practice [Agile Lawyering Part 2]
Explore the clash between good intentions and limited capacity in law practices. Discover how visual systems like Kanban can transform your workflow, helping lawyers manage commitments and avoid missed deadlines. Learn why making work visible is essential for building a reliable promise-keeping machine. Hear a cautionary tale about an Oregon attorney's AI sanction, illustrating the dangers of overwhelm. Plus, find out how metered on-ramps can streamline processes and protect against overload while improving client service.
Jan 6, 2026 • 32min
101. First Principles: An Introduction to Agile Lawyering 101
The discussion dives into the pressures faced by legal professionals, exploring the impact of overwhelm and burnout. Emphasis is placed on distinguishing agility from mere output, with a focus on sustainable work practices. The origins of Agile are connected to software, illustrating how iterative processes can enhance legal workflows. Key insights reveal how human biases contribute to overcommitment and why systems need to prioritize agency over urgency. John encourages a shift from multitasking to finishing existing commitments for improved productivity.
Dec 30, 2025 • 43min
Managing Capacity by Making Work Visible: Agile Lessons for Law Firms with Dimitri Ponomareff [Bonus]
Dimitri Ponomareff, an Agile coach and co-founder of Greenline, shares his journey through chaotic tech projects and the transformative power of Agile and Kanban. He discusses turning disaster into structure by visualizing workflows and using effective standups. Dimitri highlights how lawyers thrive on process and need visual collaboration, offering insights on managing commitments and balancing emotional responses with data. He provides practical tips to reduce overwhelm, such as limiting intake and honest capacity assessment, ensuring law firms operate with more calm and confidence.
Dec 23, 2025 • 44min
The Fundamentals of Process Improvement with Joe Bockerstette [Bonus]
Joe Bockerstette, a process improvement guru with extensive experience in various sectors, joins the discussion to challenge the myth that legal practice is too unique for standardization. He emphasizes that foundational process principles from manufacturing can revolutionize legal workflows. Topics include defining client deliverables, the importance of standardizing methods to enhance efficiency, and minimizing waste in meetings. Joe's insights on creating modular client intake processes and maintaining consistent data standards offer practical strategies for optimizing legal operations.
Dec 16, 2025 • 29min
100. Why Agile Lawyering Matters & The Journey to 100 Episodes
In this special episode, I explore the three drivers that have sustained this podcast: perspiration, inspiration, and determination. I share personal stories that shaped my mission and the lessons learned. After 100 episodes of sharing tactics and advice, this is my chance to pull back the curtain on the bigger picture of building practices that are profitable, sustainable, and scalable. Get full show notes, transcript, and more information here: agileattorney.com/100 Take your law practice from overwhelmed to optimized with GreenLine Legal Follow along on LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/johnegrant
Dec 9, 2025 • 31min
099. Stop Random Acts of Marketing: Build an Intentional Strategy for Your Law Firm
When leads slow down, most firms respond with a burst of random marketing activity, but that reactive approach rarely works. In this episode, I’m explaining why marketing must be a coherent system, not a scramble, and share practical steps for creating an intentional strategy rooted in ideal client profiles, referral partner relationships, and alignment with your firm’s actual capacity. Get full show notes, transcript, and more information here: agileattorney.com/99 Take your law practice from overwhelmed to optimized with GreenLine Legal Follow along on LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/johnegrant
Dec 2, 2025 • 48min
098. What Law Firms Can Learn from Radical Product Thinking with Radhika Dutt
Most lawyers don’t think of their work as a product, but according to Radhika Dutt, author of Radical Product Thinking, that mindset is exactly what keeps firms stuck in reactive mode. In this episode, Radhika and I explore how product thinking applies directly to legal services and why defining the change you want to create for clients is the foundation for a sustainable, client-centered practice. Whether you manage a team or operate solo, this episode will help you rethink how your firm creates value and give you a more structured way to build services that scale without losing the human impact at the center of legal work. Get full show notes, transcript, and more information here: agileattorney.com/98 Take your law practice from overwhelmed to optimized with GreenLine LegalFollow along on LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/johnegrantFollow Radhika on LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/radhika-dutt
Nov 25, 2025 • 29min
097. Creating Space Within Your Law Practice: Finding Momentum Without Overwhelm
Creating space in your law practice begins with understanding your true capacity and the demands already filling it. In this episode, I share practical ways to assess what your system can actually handle, close out the work that’s weighing you down, and set clearer boundaries for new commitments using core Kanban principles. You’ll learn simple techniques for regaining breathing room so you can end the year with more intention and start the next one with a workflow that’s sustainable for you and your team. Get full show notes, transcript, and more information here: agileattorney.com/97 Take your law practice from overwhelmed to optimized with GreenLine Legal Follow along on LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/johnegrant
Nov 18, 2025 • 40min
096. An Agile Approach to Quality Legal Writing with Brendan Kenny & Neven Selimovic
Brendan Kenny and Neven Selimovic from Hellmuth & Johnson share their transformative approach to legal writing. Brendan leads a team that uses Agile principles and AI to enhance quality and efficiency. Neven elaborates on visual tools like Kanban for better workflow management. They discuss the importance of strategy meetings and early planning to minimize rework, as well as how AI serves as a creative partner in drafting. Their successful model has turned into a subscription service, helping other firms streamline their legal processes.
