You can’t win cases if you can’t keep the lights on. Ready to learn what law school didn’t teach you? Building on our success with “Elawvate: The Trial Lawyer Podcast,” we’re excited to add to the Elawvate family! Introducing "Elawvate: Build & Grow Your Law Firm" - the podcast that teaches you the business of practicing law. Host Ben Gideon built his law firm from startup to profitable powerhouse in just 4 years. Now he's sharing the exact blueprint: hiring strategies, operational systems, ...
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The Art of Decision-Making, with Ben Gideon and Jeff Wright
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41:03Every 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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From Silicon Valley to Legal AI Startup, with Jerry Zhou
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48:06Jerry 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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Leaving a Law Firm to Start Your Own w/ Ben Gideon & Jeff Wright
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58:22"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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Scale Your Firm, No MBA Required, with Megan Piper
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50:35Megan 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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Starting a Firm vs. Growing a Firm, with Ben Gideon and Jeff Wright
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1:01:36Building 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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Building a Law Firm: Lessons from the Trenches, with Ben Gideon and Jeff Wright
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44:25"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
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0:35Everything 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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