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Oct. 13, 2025
Are You Speaking with an Authentic Voice at Trial? With Jeremy D'Amico
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 mil...
Oct. 10, 2025
Aim, Plan, Honor: Strategic Growth, with Melissa Shanahan
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 tra...
Sept. 29, 2025
AI that Helps You Work Smarter for Clients, with Will Davis and Ed Kirk
“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 ,...
Sept. 26, 2025
Do You Have a Vision or a Pipe Dream?, with Ben Gideon
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...
Sept. 15, 2025
Winning $27.7 Million from Conservative Jurors, with John Heenan
“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 c...
Sept. 12, 2025
The Art of Decision-Making, with Ben Gideon and Jeff Wright
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 CO...
Sept. 1, 2025
Defense Timelines vs. Medical Truth w/ Chris Nace & Samantha Peters
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 ...
Aug. 29, 2025
From Silicon Valley to Legal AI Startup, with Jerry Zhou
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 w...