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Jan. 2, 2026
Hiring the Right People, with Alec Broadfoot
It was a killer operation – except the hiring misfires were killing it. "We ended up firing seven out of ten employees we hired," Alec Broadfoot recalls of a mailing and printing company he once ran. Today, Alec is the CEO of...
Dec. 22, 2025
Try Good Cases, Be Great Teammates, with Pat Salvi II
The list of wins is long: $363 million on a toxics exposure case; $148 million on a paralysis case, $79 million on a police pursuit case; $75 on a brain injury case. But the philosophy at Salvi, Schostok & Pritchard is short:...
Dec. 19, 2025
Core Values that Matter, with Ben Gideon and Jeff Wright
Creating culture isn't about hiring people and forcing them to adopt your values—it's about finding people who already share them. Hosts Ben Gideon and Jeff Wright discuss how Gideon Asen transformed from vague attribute list...
Dec. 8, 2025
Gideon Asen Record $25M Med-Mal Verdict, with Ben Gideon and Meryl Poulin
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 argu...
Dec. 5, 2025
Secrets of a Serial Entrepreneur, with T.A. McCann
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 ho...
Nov. 24, 2025
“Best Of” 2025: A Visit with Inner Circle Legend Charla Aldous
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 conversation...
Nov. 21, 2025
Building ‘Comes Down to Balance’, with Andrew Garza
“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...
Nov. 10, 2025
Truths about Leaving a Firm, with Ben Gideon & Jeff Wright
"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 conv...