Best Benjamin Gideon Podcasts (2025)

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Gideon Asen Record $25M Med-Mal Verdict, with Ben Gideon and Meryl Poulin 56:27

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In med-mal cases, the defense often argues that a defendant couldn’t have anticipated a patient’s unusual problem. When a 15-year-old girl died from complications of undiagnosed lymphoma, the plaintiff’s team turned that argument on its head. “I think people think, ‘Well, if someone comes in with a really unusual set of circumstances, you ought to …

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Secrets of a Serial Entrepreneur, with T.A. McCann 48:08

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What could a law firm entrepreneur learn from a tech incubator? Pioneer Square Labs has vetted 500-plus business ideas and launched 43 software companies. PSL’s managing director, “serial entrepreneur” T.A. McCann, visits hosts Ben Gideon and Jeff Wright to reveal his playbook for growth, from breaking down PSL’s proven strategies to leveraging AI …

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“Best Of” 2025: A Visit with Inner Circle Legend Charla Aldous 20:07

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Earlier this year, hosts Ben Gideon and Rahul Ravipudi welcomed a “force of nature” to “Elawvate.” She’s also known as Charla Aldous, founder of Aldous Law. The episode remains one of the podcast’s most popular conversations. Tune in as Charla reflects on her legendary career, offers advice to younger lawyers, and revisits the victories that have p…

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Building ‘Comes Down to Balance’, with Andrew Garza 54:37

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“Even if it's going to mean we're less profitable, short term, if it provides sanity, we're going to do it,” Andrew Garza says as he reflects on his entrepreneurial journey, including co-founding Claggett, Sykes & Garza Trial Lawyers. “It all comes down to a balance.” In this wide-ranging conversation with hosts Ben Gideon and Jeff Wright, Andrew r…

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Truths about Leaving a Firm, with Ben Gideon & Jeff Wright 56:58

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"Anybody who tells you that leaving a law firm is an easy process is lying to you," says Ben Gideon. To lay out the unvarnished truth, Ben shares his experience leaving a 17-year partnership to launch Gideon Asen. In a conversation guided by Jeff Wright, the firm’s COO, Ben explains why departing from one firm to start your own can feel like a divo…

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Secrets to Scaling a Criminal Defense Firm, with Tim Zerillo 48:42

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“I tell people my practice is primarily sex, drugs, and white collar crime. No rock and roll,” says defense lawyer Tim Zerillo in this conversation about building a criminal defense firm. With hosts Ben Gideon and Jeff Wright, Tim reveals how he evolved from bartering for office space as a new lawyer to running a nationally recognized practice. He …

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When Your Experts Get It Wrong, with Chuck Hehmeyer and Elizabeth Kayatta 52:13

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“We had to say, ‘Hey, we're going to be honest with you here. For a long time, we had this wrong, and our experts had it wrong.’” That’s the theme that Chuck Hehmeyer and Elizabeth Kayatta emphasized in their med-mal case on behalf of a 4-year-old boy who was brain-injured after a routine surgery. As the boy recovered, experts initially diagnosed h…

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The “Vivid Vision” Playbook for Growth, with Cameron Herold 54:37

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Building a business without a clear vision is like doing a 5,000-piece jigsaw puzzle with no picture on the box. That’s the metaphor that informs Cameron Herold’s revolutionary “Vivid Vision” model. He describes it in this conversation with hosts Ben Gideon and Jeff Wright. The founder of the COO Alliance and mastermind behind companies like 1-800-…

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Are You Speaking with an Authentic Voice at Trial? With Jeremy D'Amico 54:27

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Jeremy D'Amico describes how his authentic trial voice transformed difficult facts into compelling narratives that yielded major verdicts: $45 million for a speeding Marine who wasn't wearing his motorcycle helmet and $23 million for an autistic boy injured in a school bus accident. In this conversation with hosts Ben Gideon and Rahul Ravipudi, he …

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Aim, Plan, Honor: Strategic Growth, with Melissa Shanahan 51:04

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Melissa Shanahan encourages her law firm clients to envision a “three-legged stool” that supports growth. The three legs of that stool are: aim, plan, and honor. “When you don't have one of those, you don't really get the traction that you're looking for,” she explains to hosts Ben Gideon and Jeff Wright. The founder of the consulting firm Velocity…

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AI that Helps You Work Smarter for Clients, with Will Davis and Ed Kirk 53:22

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“Occasionally, we will introduce our listeners to a new product that's designed to help trial lawyers do a better job for their clients and their practices,” host Ben Gideon explains as he kicks off this episode about Supio, legal AI for personal injury firms. To make the introduction, he and co-host Rahul Ravipudi turn to Ed Kirk, who is Supio’s h…

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Do You Have a Vision or a Pipe Dream?, with Ben Gideon 54:15

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Here’s what a vision is not: a pipe dream or a Christmas wish list. Here’s what it is: a big, audacious goal that’s worthy of your time and energy. Ben Gideon lays out this critical difference by unpacking his own vision for Gideon Asen. In a conversation guided by COO Jeff Wright, Ben shares how their firm's original mission statement evolved from…

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Winning $27.7 Million from Conservative Jurors, with John Heenan 40:37

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“It is not easy to get substantial damage awards from Montana jurors,” says John Heenan of Billings-based Heenan & Cook. Yet conservative Montana jurors awarded $27.7 million in his negligence case against a private prison company. As he tells host Ben Gideon: “I love being in front of Montana juries, but I have developed a way…” Tune in for John’s…

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The Art of Decision-Making, with Ben Gideon and Jeff Wright 41:03

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Every business succeeds or fails based on decisions: making good ones and recovering from bad ones. “Sounds like a pretty rudimentary concept,” says Gideon Asen founder Ben Gideon. To break down that concept, Ben and firm COO Jeff Wright reflect on how decision-making has informed Gideon Asen and its growth. They also dissect crucial contradictions…

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Defense Timelines vs. Medical Truth w/ Chris Nace & Samantha Peters 53:42

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Medical records meticulously documented the routine endoscopy that went wrong, ending tragically in the patient’s death. But when Chris Nace and Samantha Peters took the case to trial, they were confronted with the defense’s slick, well-produced timeline of events – vastly different from what the record showed. With hosts Ben Gideon and Rahul Ravip…

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From Silicon Valley to Legal AI Startup, with Jerry Zhou 48:06

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Jerry Zhou and childhood friend Kyle Lam had vast skills in software development by the time Covid hit and they left Microsoft. That’s when they sat down at a Starbucks and wrote “all the ideas that we had about things that we thought we could contribute to the world.” Their coffee-house brainstorming eventually turned into Supio, a developer of le…

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How Bad Faith Turned $1M into $56M, with Rahul Ravipudi 41:02

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The jiu-jitsu club had a $1 million insurance policy, but when an instructor accidentally rendered a new student an incomplete quadriplegic, the carrier put its interest above their own insured’s – and paid the price. Rahul Ravipudi, who represented the victim, updates co-host Ben Gideon on the groundbreaking case. After the defendants refused to p…

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Leaving a Law Firm to Start Your Own w/ Ben Gideon & Jeff Wright 58:22

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"Anybody who tells you that leaving a law firm is an easy process is lying to you," says Ben Gideon. To lay out the unvarnished truth, Ben shares his experience leaving a 17-year partnership to launch Gideon Asen. In a conversation guided by Jeff Wright, the firm’s COO, Ben explains why departing from one firm to start your own can feel like a divo…

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Special Preview: Decoding EOS to Scale Your Law Firm 49:10

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Elawvate’s “Build & Grow Your Law Firm” podcast devotes its third episode to EOS, or “entrepreneurial operating system.” Your guide is Megan Piper, a certified EOS implementer who coaches clients along their journey from “chaos to cohesion.” In this conversation with hosts Ben Gideon and Jeff Wright, she describes how law firms can leverage EOS to …

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What Trial Risks Are You Willing to Take?, with Tara Eberly and Ken Suggs 53:13

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Ken Suggs recalls the time when he “chickened out” rather than go ahead with his experiment that involved dropping a box of typewriting paper on a steel box to show the crash worthiness of a car. He lost that case. “I've got a phrase that I like to repeat to myself when I'm trying to make one of those decisions,” he says, “which is, ‘Drop the box. …

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Scale Your Firm, No MBA Required, with Megan Piper 50:35

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Megan Piper says that her job coaching entrepreneurs “is to help them succeed and then to get out of the way.” To do this, she teaches a model called EOS, or “entrepreneurial operating system.” And while EOS is “industry agnostic,” Megan explains to hosts Ben Gideon and Jeff Wright that law firms can use it to clarify their vision, drive accountabi…

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#11: A/Prof Elliot Tapper - Liver legends, lies and lactulose 56:57

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Today we had the privilege of talking to a true superstar in the world of Hepatology. Elliot B. Tapper MD is an Associate Professor in the Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology at the University of Michigan. He is Academic Chief of Hepatology. His primary goal is to empower patients to enjoy a high quality of life. He is an expert in the mana…

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Special Preview: “Build & Grow Your Law Firm” Unpacks Starting vs. Growing a Firm 1:00:13

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Building a law firm and building a law firm designed for growth: Often mistaken. Very different. Tune in to the second episode of Elawvate’s “Build & Grow Your Law Firm” podcast to understand the difference. Your guides are Ben Gideon, founder of Gideon Asen, and the firm’s COO, Jeff Wright. They share their insights about leveraging existing probl…

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Jujitsu Tactics in the Courtroom, with Dennis Donnelly 1:02:39

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Described by host Ben Gideon as “the Brazilian jujitsu of trial lawyers,” Dennis Donnelly shares his insights from 44 years in practice. “I don't know about all of you, but I try a lot of cases, and usually somewhere in the trial, I tell myself, ‘This is why this happened,’” Dennis says, adding, “But it takes a while to get there.” In this conversa…

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Starting a Firm vs. Growing a Firm, with Ben Gideon and Jeff Wright 1:01:36

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Building a law firm and building a law firm that’s designed for growth “are often mistaken, but very different ventures,” observes host Ben Gideon. The founder and managing partner of Gideon Asen teams up with the firm’s chief operating officer, Jeff Wright, for this conversation about starting a law firm to sell your legal services versus building…

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Special Preview: Welcome to Elawvate: Build & Grow Your Law Firm 42:56

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For four years, you’ve tuned in to Elawvate, the podcast where “personal growth meets the practice of trial law.” Now, host Ben Gideon invites you to a special preview of Elawvate’s new “Build & Grow Your Law Firm” podcast, where you’ll learn the business of practicing law. Ben and co-host Jeff Wright, the COO of Gideon Asen, reflect on building th…

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#10: A/Prof Gianluca Ianiro and Dr Benjamin Mullish - The gut microbiome in health and disease 1:03:20

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Today we’re talking bugs, bowels, and breakthroughs with A/Prof Gianluca Ianiro and Dr. Ben Mullish, two microbiome maestros who make poo science strangely fascinating. A/Prof Gianluca Ianiro is an Associate Professor of Gastroenterology at the Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore in Rome and a Consultant at the Gastroenterology Unit of the Fondazi…

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Winning $7.6M for Wrongfully Imprisoned Client, with David Lebowitz, Doug Lieb, and Alyssa Isidoridy 51:38

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When police officers intentionally falsify evidence to arrest someone they believe is guilty, it’s usually "an ends-justify-the-means approach," says Doug Lieb. He and trial partners David Lebowitz and Alyssa Isidoridy challenge that approach in their civil rights practice, recently winning $7.6 million for a client who spent 30 years wrongfully im…

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Building a Law Firm: Lessons from the Trenches, with Ben Gideon and Jeff Wright 44:25

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"I really wish when we started our practice, someone had taken me under their wing and said, 'This is how you do this.'" In the premiere of “Build & Grow Your Law Firm,” Ben Gideon takes attorneys contemplating opening their own firm under his wing. Tune in for insights from Ben and co-host Jeff Wright, Gideon Asen's Chief Operating Officer, about …

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Welcome to Elawvate: Build & Grow Your Law Firm 0:35

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Everything You Really Need to Build a Law Firm Welcome to Elawvate: Build & Grow Your Law Firm, the podcast that gives entrepreneurial attorneys the playbook for creating thriving, professionally run law practices. Host Ben Gideon shares lessons he’s learned building a firm from the ground up. Top experts in the business of law will join him to len…

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Inside A Med-Mal Master’s Nine-Figure Playbook, with Brian McKeen 51:20

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"It's not rocket science," says Brian McKeen about trial advocacy. His record-breaking verdicts may suggest otherwise. The Detroit med-mal virtuoso shares with hosts Ben Gideon and Rahul Ravipudi how he transformed from a sports-obsessed student into one of Michigan's powerhouse plaintiff attorneys. From a $130 million med mal judgment to a $96 mil…

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From Milking Cows to Making Insurance Companies Pay, with Ricardo Echeverria 55:14

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In a personal injury case, the plaintiff’s lawyer must rely on witnesses to perform. In a bad-faith case, their job is educating the jury about the rules that insurance companies must follow. That’s how Ricardo Echeverria describes the two areas of his practice at Shernoff Bidart Echeverria. With hosts Ben Gideon and Rahul Ravipudi, he explains tha…

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#09: A/Professor Emma Halmos & Dr CK Yao - Food is Medicine.. or is it? 56:18

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Today we welcome two world-leading dietitians to talk all things diet in IBD and IBS.... A/Prof Emma Halmos is a senior research dietitian at Monash University and the Alfred Hospital. Her scientific achievements have had a major impact in clinical practice nationally and internationally. The most notable was the pivotal feeding study that demonstr…

Benjamin Gideon Podcasts

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Elawvate: The Trial Lawyer Podcast

Benjamin Gideon & Rahul Ravipudi

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Elawvate: Build & Grow Your Law Firm

Benjamin Gideon | Gideon Asen LLC

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Two guys talking **it - A Gastroenterology and Hepatology podcast

A/Prof Jon Segal and Dr James Haridy

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Gideon Asen Record $25M Med-Mal Verdict, with Ben Gideon and Meryl Poulin 56:27

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Secrets of a Serial Entrepreneur, with T.A. McCann 48:08

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“Best Of” 2025: A Visit with Inner Circle Legend Charla Aldous 20:07

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Building ‘Comes Down to Balance’, with Andrew Garza 54:37

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Truths about Leaving a Firm, with Ben Gideon & Jeff Wright 56:58

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Secrets to Scaling a Criminal Defense Firm, with Tim Zerillo 48:42

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When Your Experts Get It Wrong, with Chuck Hehmeyer and Elizabeth Kayatta 52:13

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The “Vivid Vision” Playbook for Growth, with Cameron Herold 54:37

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Are You Speaking with an Authentic Voice at Trial? With Jeremy D'Amico 54:27

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Aim, Plan, Honor: Strategic Growth, with Melissa Shanahan 51:04

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AI that Helps You Work Smarter for Clients, with Will Davis and Ed Kirk 53:22

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Do You Have a Vision or a Pipe Dream?, with Ben Gideon 54:15

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Winning $27.7 Million from Conservative Jurors, with John Heenan 40:37

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The Art of Decision-Making, with Ben Gideon and Jeff Wright 41:03

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Defense Timelines vs. Medical Truth w/ Chris Nace & Samantha Peters 53:42

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From Silicon Valley to Legal AI Startup, with Jerry Zhou 48:06

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How Bad Faith Turned $1M into $56M, with Rahul Ravipudi 41:02

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Leaving a Law Firm to Start Your Own w/ Ben Gideon & Jeff Wright 58:22

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Special Preview: Decoding EOS to Scale Your Law Firm 49:10

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What Trial Risks Are You Willing to Take?, with Tara Eberly and Ken Suggs 53:13

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Scale Your Firm, No MBA Required, with Megan Piper 50:35

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#11: A/Prof Elliot Tapper - Liver legends, lies and lactulose 56:57

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Special Preview: “Build & Grow Your Law Firm” Unpacks Starting vs. Growing a Firm 1:00:13

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Jujitsu Tactics in the Courtroom, with Dennis Donnelly 1:02:39

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Starting a Firm vs. Growing a Firm, with Ben Gideon and Jeff Wright 1:01:36

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Special Preview: Welcome to Elawvate: Build & Grow Your Law Firm 42:56

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#10: A/Prof Gianluca Ianiro and Dr Benjamin Mullish - The gut microbiome in health and disease 1:03:20

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Winning $7.6M for Wrongfully Imprisoned Client, with David Lebowitz, Doug Lieb, and Alyssa Isidoridy 51:38

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Building a Law Firm: Lessons from the Trenches, with Ben Gideon and Jeff Wright 44:25

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Welcome to Elawvate: Build & Grow Your Law Firm 0:35

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Inside A Med-Mal Master’s Nine-Figure Playbook, with Brian McKeen 51:20

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From Milking Cows to Making Insurance Companies Pay, with Ricardo Echeverria 55:14

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#09: A/Professor Emma Halmos & Dr CK Yao - Food is Medicine.. or is it? 56:18